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Ewan McGregor and Kate Winslet are set to team up in a new period drama about a young Irish couple struggling to survive in New York at the height of Depression.

Oscar-winning Irish director Jim Sheridan is masterminding the £30million Thirties tale East Of Harlem which is due to start filming outside Dublin and in Manhattan next summer.

And the creator of the Daniel Day Lewis movies My Left Foot and The Boxer has special arrangements with his co-stars limiting their salaries to just above the union minimum rate.

A source close to the production said: "The largest part of the budget will be seen up there on screen so it will be a question of how much the film makes at the box office to decide salaries in the long run.

"That was fine with both Kate and Ewan as they are extremely keen to be involved."

According to insiders, East Of Harlem bares no similarity to another New World discovery story Far And Away which starred Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.