The National Board of Review chose “The Hours” as best movie of the year, this wednesday. Julianne Moore also won as Best Actress for “Far From Heaven”, Chris Cooper won Best Supporting Actor for “The Hours”. With this beginning of the 2003 award season, the Golden Globe nominations will be announced December 19.

Yesterday was a first official screening of Sony’s “Adaptation” in New York. Meryl Streep attended with guests including Kevin Kline and Parker Posey. “Adaptation” releases this christmas

“The Hours,” expected to be one of the biggest crowd-pullers in the 59th Venice film festival at the end of this month, was pulled off the bill on Friday due to delays in post-production, organizers said. “The producer, Miramax, said that they still had to complete technical modifications… and it won’t be ready in time,” a spokeswoman for the festival said.

EOnline has reported today that “The Hours” will have it’s world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, which will open it’s doors on Augut 29, 2002.

Great news! Meryl has been nominated for a 2001 Drama Desk Award for her performance in ‘The Seagull’ along with Robin Bartlett (Everett Beekin), Lindsey Duncan (Private Lives), Anna Paquin (The Glory of Living), Mercedes Ruehl (The Goat) and Sarah Jessica Parker (Wonder of the World). “The Seagull” is also nominated for Best Revial. The Drama Desk Awards ceremony will be held 9 PM May 19 at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center.

After reporting about this project last year, the production has now started with an all-star-cast: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson and Mary-Louise Parker are going to play the leads in this six-hour miniseries for HBO. Mike Nichols directs. “Angels in America” will premiere in early 2003.

Hollywood.com reported that ten years after it became a sensation on Broadway, Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning gay-themed play Angels in America, May be coming to television as an HBO miniseries starring Al Pacino and Meryl Streep and directed by Mike Nichols, the New York Post reported Friday, citing a person close to the project. The project will be a joint production between HBO and A venue Pictures and would be aired as six one-hour episodes, the newspaper said.

Nicolas Cage has agreed to take a starring role in the movie ‘Adaptation’, and now Variety reports that serial Oscar nominee and two-time winner Meryl Streep has joined him. Adaptation, which is being characterized as a dark comedy along the lines of Malkovich, tracks the struggles of the screenwriter Charlie Kaufmann to draft a script based on sometime New Yorker essayist Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief. Cage will play Kaufmann, Streep is considering playing the part of Orlean.

Excellent news! The Associated Press reports that Oscar-winner Marcia Gay Harden (Best Supporting Actress for “Pollock”) has joined the already astonishing cast of ‘The Seagull’, which opens July 24th. The players, including Streep and Harden, as well as Kevin Kline, Christopher Walken and John Goodman have their last show on August 10 at the outdoor Delacorte Theater.

The Mike Nichols directed “The Seagull”, starring Meryl, Kevin Kline and Natalie Portman, will be performed at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park -the place, where Meryl started her career in the 1970s.