As you all know, Amy is currently in Ireland filming her new movie Leap Year.  Filming officially began yesterday and we’ve added a small selection of MQ on the set images to the gallery.  Enjoy!

• On the Set – April 1, 2009 x013

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THE Irish film industry is getting a €21.4m boost, thanks to a new Hollywood movie starring Enchanted actress Amy Adams, which is due to start shooting in Wicklow shortly.

An LA film crew are gearing up to descend on the ‘garden of Ireland’ county and begin work on Leap Year, which has been given a massive budget to come over here to ensure the flick looks and feels authentically Irish.

Stepping into the lead role will be stunning star Adams, who was this year nominated for a best-supporting Oscar award for Doubt, alongside Matthew Goode of Watchmen fame.

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Just a bit of information on Amy’s upcoming film, Leap Year. It has been released that Adam Scott will be playing Amy’s boyfriend in the movie. That should be interesting to watch!

Adam Scott has signed on to co-star in Irish-themed rom-com, Leap Year, is pretty much spot-on. Top o’ the mornin’ to ye!

Scott, who was so hilariously as Will Ferrell’s brother in Step Brothers, will play the boyfriend of Amy Adams’ character, who travels to Dublin to take advantage of an old tradition that allows girlfriends to propose to their boyfriends on February 29. Because, you know, heaven forfend that girls might be able to propose anytime they liked in this, the supposed age of equality.

Anyway, when Adams is derailed by bad weather, she is forced to team up with Matthew Goode’s cynical Irish innkeeper to get back on track. Only, we’re guessing that, somewhere along the way, she’ll fall for Goode and realise that Scott’s boyfriend is, actually, pretty Badde.

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The idea is she winds up in the furthest place from Dublin and it’s about her journey and how she changes as a character

Next month shooting will begin on Leap Year, a romantic comedy starring the Oscar-nominated Amy Adams and boasting Simon Beaufoy, who won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay for Slumdog Millionaire, as script writer.

Adams, best-known for her role in Enchanted, the box-office hit about a fairytale princess who finds herself in New York, will play an American who travels to Ireland to propose to her boyfriend on February 29. According to the film, not only is it Irish tradition for women to propose on “leap day” but their men have to say “yes”.

When weather forces Adams’s uptight character to veer off course, she finds herself forced to rely on a surly local innkeeper to help her find her beau. The two trek across the countryside to try to get to Dublin to pop the question before time runs out. The pub owner will be played by Matthew Goode, an actor hailed as one of Britain’s rising stars.

Producers from Spyglass Entertainment arrived in Ireland a week ago and are currently scouting for remote and picturesque locations for the shoot.

Jake Weiner, a creative producer on the film, said shooting is due to begin at the start of April for two months. He said: “We are looking for the most beautiful remote places in Ireland to shoot the movie. It’s going to be a great project and we’re thrilled to be here.”

Irish cast and crew will be employed on the movie, which will be directed by Anand Tucker, who directed Shopgirl. “The idea is she winds up in the furthest place from Dublin and it’s about her journey and how she changes as a character,” said Weiner. “We are trying to figure out where is the most remote place to be coming from.”

Adams was nominated for a best supporting actress at last week’s Oscars for her role in Doubt, losing out to Penelope Cruz. It was her second supporting-actress nomination, having received the nod for 2005’s Junebug.

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Spyglass has set Matthew Goode to star opposite Amy Adams in “Leap Year,” the romantic comedy Anand Tucker will direct from a script by Harry Elfont and Deb Kaplan.

Adams plays a young woman who travels to Dublin to propose to her boyfriend on Leap Day. When weather forces her to veer off course, she enlists a cynical Irish innkeeper (Goode) to join her on a cross-country trip.

Shooting begins in March in Ireland.

Goode will next be seen in the Zack Snyder-directed “Watchmen,” and he recently completed the Tom Ford-directed “A Single Man.” Goode starred in “Brideshead Revisited” and “The Lookout.”