Peace Arch Entertainment announced that it would release Watching the Detectives, a romantic comedy starring Lucy Liu and Cillian Murphy, early next year.

The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this past May. Liu plays a femme fatale who turns the life of a mild-mannered movie buff into something resembling a film noir. 

In an interview with New York Magazine in April, Liu talked about keeping her character from irritating the audience: "The trick was making sure she didn't just become an annoyance. You know (in movies) there's that person who's so annoying you don't want her to be with the guy in the end? That could have been a problem. So you have to make her likable without letting her become really cute."

She also compared Murphy's character to Quentin Tarantino, who she described as having "such a library of information that he's able to remember all these moments and use them in his films. To Cillian's character, everything is a quote. And my character is always saying, 'I have no idea what you're talking about' – though you begin to wonder if maybe she does."