Also this week, on February 05, Meryl has attended a special screening of “The Iron Lady”, hosted by the Screen Actors Guild. Pictures can be found in the image library – additional pictures from the AARP’s Movies for Grownups Awards Gala have been added as well an can be checked here. Edit: The complete Q&A with Meryl at the SAG screening has been uploaded by the Weinstein Company (thanks!) and can be watched in the video archive.

After attending yesterday’s Oscar luncheon, Meryl was a guest at the AARP’s 11th Annual Movies for Grownups Awards Gala in Beverly Hills, where she accepted the award for Best Grownup lovestory, shared with her “The Iron Lady” co-star Jim Broadbent. Pictures from the gala can be found in the image library.

According to Deadline Hollywood, Oscars host Billy Crystal, Meryl Streep, George Clooney, Tom Hanks and many others will join Jimmy Kimmel Live: After The Academy Awards live on ABC from the El Capitan Theatre on Sunday February 26th. Helen Mirren, Charlize Theron, Don Cheadle and Cold Play will also be on hand for the shenanigans that begin following the Oscarcast and local news.

Meryl is currently attending the 2012 Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills, California. A first batch of pictures has been added to the image library with more to come.

This week we cover “Rendition”, Gavin Hood’s 2007 political thriller about the United States’ practice of extraordinary rendition. You can learn more about the film by checking its detail page. The galleries have been updated with Blu-Ray screencaptures of the film and its making of documentary, new clips have been added to the video archive as well. As always, you can find my review after the cut, I’m interested to hear your comments on the film!

Today’s update features many great scans from around the world, which have been sent to me by Rebecca, Simona and Nat. The Women’s Weekly issue is a standout, as it features more stunning pictures from Brigitte Lacombe’s most recent shoot. A list of all recent magazine additions can be found below the previews. Thank you once again for those fantastic scans!

Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2012 > Women’s Weekly (Australia, February 2012)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2012 > Questions de Femmes (France, February 2012)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2012 > USA Today (USA, January 2012)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2012 > Grazia (Italy, January 2012)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2012 > Empire Magazine (Italy, January 2012)

Four new videos have been added. Most importantly, Meryl has been a guest on yesterday’s “Huckabee” on FOX, promoting “The Iron Lady”. It’s a lenghty interview, so check it out. The full version has been snagged by dannix03, thanks :-) Then there are two entertainment reports on the AACTA Awards last week as well as a French interview, which aired on TF1News, last week as well.

Also, many additions have been made to the appearances galleries of 2012, including more pictures from the Golden Globe and SAG Awards as well as the most recent Theater Hall of Fame Induction. Most of the HQs have been sent in by my friend Roberta – thanks for them!

Appearances > 2012 > Theater Hall of Fame Induction
Appearances > 2012 > Screen Actors Guild Awards – After-Party
Appearances > 2012 > Screen Actors Guild Awards – Red Carpet
Appearances > 2012 > Golden Globe Awards – After-Party
Appearances > 2012 > Golden Globe Awards – Press Room
Appearances > 2012 > Golden Globe Awards – Show
Appearances > 2012 > Golden Globe Awards – Red Carpet
Appearances > 2012 > BAFTA L.A. Awards Season Tea-Party
Appearances > 2011 > Kennedy Center Honors – White House Reception

Eighteen of the 20 nominees in the acting categories will be among more than 150 Oscar nominees who will gather at noon on Monday, February 6, at the Beverly Hilton when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honors this year’s Oscar contenders at its annual Nominees Luncheon. Additional confirmations are expected to come in over the weekend. From the Best Actress and Actor categories all the nominees – Glenn Close, Viola Davis, Rooney Mara, Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams, Demián Bichir, George Clooney, Jean Dujardin, Gary Oldman and Brad Pitt – are expected to attend. Kenneth Branagh, Jonah Hill, Nick Nolte, Max von Sydow, Bérénice Bejo, Melissa McCarthy, Janet McTeer and Octavia Spencer will represent the Supporting Actor and Actress categories. Academy Awards® for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on Sunday, February 26, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.

There’s news on the big screen adaptation of “August: Osage County” – although it’s pretty much what has been known already. Theater buffs have been curious for a while now about the cinematic fate of “August: Osage County,” Tracy Letts’ 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning family drama that has been in development as a movie for several years. Now the film project – which would have Meryl Streep as pill-popping matriarch Violet Weston and Julia Roberts as her complicated adult daughter Barbara – looks to finally be taking a step forward. An executive at the Weinstein Co., which owns rights to and has been developing the movie, said that a September schedule-opening for both Streep and Roberts could allow the movie to begin shooting in the fall. The executive, Weinstein Co. COO David Glasser, said the goal was for the film to wrap production by the end of 2012 and come out in the 2013 autumn awards season. According to another person at the company who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to talk about internal matters, Letts, who had been adapting his own play for the screen, recently turned in his screenplay to the company and executives deem it close to shooting-ready. The complete article can be read at the Los Angeles Times, a second article has been published by Cinema Blend. Let’s see how this develops. Thanks to Glenn and Frank for the heads-up!

According to Entertainment Weekly, the first round of presenters has been confirmed for the 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Meryl Streep, Kirsten Dunst, William H. Macy, and Rashida Jones will take part in the Seth Rogen-hosted ceremony held on February 25. It airs that night at 10 p.m. ET on IFC. The Artist and Take Shelter lead the nominations. Thanks to Frank for the heads-up!