According to ContactMusic.com, Meryl is in talks to join “Adaptation” screenwriter Charlie Kaufman in a production to be performed on London’s South Bank. The play, provisionally titled “Music to a New Ear”, is a double bill and is said to involve the considerable talents of the Coen Brothers. The “Fargo” producers have also chosen Hollywood actor Philip Seymor Hoffman to be part of the show. No official statement has been done yet.

Meryl has received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her work in “The Manchurian Candidate” by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. She shares the category with Cate Blanchett (The Aviator), Heather Craney (Vera Drake), Julie Christie (Finding Neverland) and Natalie Portman (Closer). The awards will be handed out on February 12, 2005. Streep has won the BAFTA Award in 1982 for her performance in “The French Lieutenant’s Woman”.

Meryl Streep has received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for “The Manchurian Candidate”. She shares this category with Cate Blanchett (The Aviator), Laura Linney (Kinsey), Virginia Madsen (Sideways) and Natalie Portman (Closer). This is Streep’s 20th nomination for the Golden Globe, holding the record as most nominated actor in Globe history (she’s also the most Oscar-nominated actress of all times). The Golden Globes will be handed out on January 16, 2005. Congratulations!

According to ComingSoon.net, Meryl Streep has decided to drop out of Columbia Pictures’ “All the King’s Men”, based on the novel by Robert Penn Warren, reports Variety. Another actress is expected to be announced for the project soon. Streep was set to play Sadie, the aide to Willy Stark. The full article can be read here.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Meryl Streep is in negotations to join Sean Penn, Kate Winslet, Marc Ruffalo and Jude Law in Columbia Pictures’ remake of “All the King’s Men”. Visit their site to read the whole article. Yet, there is no official statement by Columbia Pictures.

Congratulations to Meryl Streep on winning the Emmy Award for “Angels in America”. Leading the award show as a favorite with 21 nominations, “Angels” scored awards in every category it was nominated for, including honors as Best Television Movie, for Mike Nichols, Tony Kushner and its actors Al Pacino, Mary Louise Parker and Jeffrey Whright. With a total of 11 wins, “Angels in America” ties the record as most awarded film in the Emmy history with “Eleanor and Franklin” (1976).

According to ComingSoon.net, the rumors are true that Sandra Bullock dropped out of “Prime” and is replaced by Uma Thurman. The film has been further joined by Bryan Greenberg as Meryl Streep’s son and Annie Parisse as Thurman’s best friend. An official announcement on Uma is not yet out, as Paramount Pictures still lists Bullock.

The 2004 Venice Film Festival will show “The Manchurian Candidate”. Director Jonathan Demme and his cast, Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep and John Voigt are expected to attend the festival and the film’s photocall on September 02, 2004. “The Manchurian Candidate” will run out of competition.

Various sources, including an interview with USA Today, has mentioned Meryl’s involvement with the next Robert Altman film, “Prairie Home Companion”. The article quoted her to “play half of a female country music duo. It used to be a trio and might have been a quartet. We keep losing members”. Shooting begins in January 2005. Yet, Meryl’s involvement hasn’t been officially announced.

With the release of “The Manchurian Candidate”, Entertainment Weekly reported about Angela Lansbury’s displeasure on Meryl Streep taking over the role she performed in the original film. Further it was written that Streep had based her character on senator Hilary Clinton and that Paramount had to cut additional scenes that were too much Clinton. In an interview with NBC, Streep stated that she was disturbed by these reports, adding that her performance was not based on Clinton, but “who says I haven’t modeled it on a man?”. And although Entertainment Weekly stands by its taped interview, Streep reveals that Lansbury called her and denied she made the statements. “She said, ‘I never said this. I love all the people making this. I don’t know who started the rumor.”