Murphy to join Liu in upcoming film

Irish actor Cillian Murphy is to team up with Charlie's Angels star Lucy Liu in the romantic comedy, Watching the Detectives.

The film will be directed by debutant Paul Stoter and shooting will get under way next month in New York.

Murphy has been widely praised for his performance in last project, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, which won Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this month.