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Indomina Releasing Ends Mystery and Pick Up ‘Detective Dee’

IndieWIRE’s Anne Thompson certainly pleased by this bit of news. If my count is good, this is title number eight for the Indomina Releasing folks – and it may be their crown jewel in their mad streak of pick-ups. The Venice and TIFF preemed Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame has been acquired by the new genre label and they’ll want to make sure they roll the epic title quickly.

Eric Lavallée

Published on November 9, 2010

IndieWIRE’s Anne Thompson certainly pleased by this bit of news. If my count is good, this is title number eight for the Indomina Releasing folks – and it may be their crown jewel in their mad streak of pick-ups. The Venice and TIFF preemed Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame has been acquired by the new genre label and they’ll want to make sure they roll the epic title quickly.

Gist: Written by Chen Kuofu and based on the book by Lin Qianyu, this is a fictional account of Di Renjie, one of the most celebrated officials of the Tang Dynasty. When the mysterious deaths of a series of loyal subjects threaten to delay the 690 A.D. inauguration of Empress Wu Zetian (Carina Lau), she summons the infamous Detective Dee (Andy Lau) back from exile into which she cast him eight years earlier.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).