Dublin's Temple Bar drew a crowd of curious onlookers this afternoon as a film production crew moved in to shoot Pierce Brosnan's latest movie.
Around 200 tourists and locals witnessed the strange sight of a fleet of New York-style yellow cabs driving down Fleet Street in a bid to create a realistic Manhattan scene.
Laws of Attractionstarring Navan-born Brosnan and Julianne Moore, will be shot mostly on location in Ireland.
Brosnan (50), star of the James Bond films Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enoughand Die Another Day, did not feature in this afternoon's scenes.
However, his co-star Julianne Moore (42), who starred in The Fugitiveand the 1998 remake of Hitchcock's Psycho, arrived during shooting.
A harried production crew urged onlookers to move back as the New York cabs drove past the Morgan Hotel, where actors playing "groupies" were shot welcoming the arrival of the film's fictitious rock group.
But behind the camera, the only real comparison between Dublin and mid-summer Manhattan was the sound of car horns as frustrated motorists tried in vain to find a route through the cultural quarter.