Paul Giamatti, Paul Rudd, and Sally Hawkins are set to lead Phil Morrison's comedy Lucky Dog.  Per Deadline, "the story centers on a pair of French-Canadian conmen pals who, despite being on the outs with each other, hatch a get-rich-quick scheme to sell Christmas trees in NY."  I'm not sure what's quick about selling Christmas trees, but I'll go along with it even though I thought Morrison's previous film, Junebug, was an absolute chore with the exception of Amy Adams' performance.  Filming on Lucky Dog begins next month in New York City.

As we reported last month, Giamatti is set to play Friar Lawrence (the guy who cooks up the idiotic fake-death potion) in the period adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.  Rudd is leading Errol Morris' non-documentary feature Freezing People Is Easy, and he'll be seen later this year in the comedies Wanderlust and the Knocked Up spinoff, This Is Forty.  As for Hawkins, she's co-starring in Mike Newell's adaptation of Great Expectations.