Landing a Star

Up in the Air breakout Anna Kendrick will star in an untitled new comedy to be directed by Jonathan Levine (The Wackness) with Seth Rogen and Wanted’s James McAvoy.

McAvoy will play a twentysomething man who learns he has cancer, while Kendrick will take on the role of a psychologist who counsels him.

Production on the project, which Nicole Holofcener (Friends with Money) was set to helm until she and the studio could not agree on where to shoot it, is set to begin filming next month.

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Update: Joseph Gordon-Levitt is replacing James McAvoy in the movie now that the latter has pulled out of the project “due to unrelated circumstances beyond his control.”