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It turns out Katherine Heigl is not leaving Grey's Anatomy after all.

But this isn't stopping the actress from expanding her big screen resume.

According to Variety, Heigl will star in Life as We Know It, a movie about two single people that must come together to raise an orphaned child. And fall in love, it's safe to assume.

The film will directed by Greg Berlanti; while the actress herself is coproducing it along with her mother, Nancy.

A few months after Katherine Heigl appeared in Knocked Up - and had her movie career sky-rocket, as a result - the ungrateful actress told Vanity Fair that she thought the movie was “a little sexist.”

Heigl went on to say that Knocked Up "paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as goofy, fun-loving guys. … It was hard for me to love the movie.”

Now, for the first time, someone involved with the hit comedy has spoken up about Heigl's unflattering remarks. While promoting Pineapple Express, Seth Rogen tried to temper his response to his former co-star's words. But it got harder and harder to do as the conversation went on.

"[I] thought it would have been nice if she'd said something while we were making the movie,'' Rogen said. "We don't hire actors as purely actors. We make them creative consultants basically and really get their opinions on every aspect. There's an extremely long rehearsal process solely dedicated to having those conversations so, yeah, I thought it was weird."

Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogen starred together in Knocked Up. Since then, the actress has gone on to diss the movie for no apparent reason.

Unable to refrain by getting a dig in at Heigl's main complaint - that Knocked Up somehw demeaned women - Rogen added:

"I mean, it won a Women's Image Network Award. Take that! She can take it up with them."

Katherine Heigl will star in and produce a feature film adaptation of Escape. The bestselling memoir by Carolyn Jessop focuses on the testimony that helped convict polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs.

A bit more background: Jessop was born into the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints sect. At 18 she married a man 32 years her senior; at 35, she fled with her eight children. Heigl will take the lead role.

Katherine Heigl is working on a solid movie resume.

Gerard Butler is bring his rock hard abs to a romantic comedy alongside Katherine Heigl.

The pair will star in The Ugly Truth, a film in which Butler will play the TV host of a chauvinistic segment called ''The Ugly Truth'' and Heigl will portray a romantically-challenged morning show producer who is reluctantly embroiled by Butler's character in a series of outrageous tests to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love.

The project brings together the team behind Legally Blonde: director Robert Luketic and writers Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith. Shooting is scheduled to start in April.

Butler's recent credits include P.S. I Love You and 300. He next stars in Nim's Island, while Heigl just completed 27 Dresses.