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.

“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.

Emmy-winner Allison Janney is going to play her lesbian lover in the upcoming ‘The Hour’s’. Janney and Streep previousley worked together in “First Do No Harm”

What a cast! Toni Collette (“Muriel’s Wedding”, “The Sixth Sense”), Ed Harris (“Apollo 13”, “Pollock”) and Claire Danes (“Romeo and Juliet”) have joined Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore to play in the upcoming ‘The Hours’.

Looks like Gwyneth Paltrow has dropped out of “The Hours”. It’s been reported that this year’s Oscar nominee Julianne Moore (“The End of the Affair”, “Boogie Nights”) has replaced the actress in the upcoming ensemble drama, based on Michael Cunningham’s bestselling novel.

How’s this for a powerhouse combo? Gwyneth Paltrow, Nicole Kidman, and Meryl Streep May star together in a new film, but without ever sharing a scene. The plot of The Hours revolves around three female characters in different story lines and different time periods in the 20th century, related only by a parallel in their personal lives: Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway. The first woman is Woolf herself, who is working on the novel in 1923 as she recovers from depression. Second is an unhappily married ’40s era Los Angeles housewife who reads Woolf’s novel in 1949 as she awaits the birth of her first child; third is a contemporary woman in New York planning what will be a farewell party for her AIDS-stricken former lover, who nicknamed her Mrs. Dalloway.