Not bad for a film which hasn’t been made yet. According to Deadline, Disney’s 20th Century Studios has released a couple of new titles to release next year – among them the long-rumored sequel to “The Devil Wears Prada”, coming out on May 1, 2026. As Deadline writes, the sequel to the 2006 blockbuster, which grossed over $326 million, “The Devil Wears Prada 2” is expected to follow Runway magazine’s haughty editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) as she navigates the challenges of the declining print industry. Disney confirmed development on the film last July, with Aline Brosh McKenna boarding to pen the script. Director David Frankel is expected to return, along with producer Wendy Finerman. While castings haven’t yet been formally announced, it seems a safe bet that we’ll also see the return of Streep’s co-star Emily Blunt and/or lead Anne Hathaway. So, for now, we’re still in unofficial waters.

Director Robert Benton has died on May 11, 2025. Benton was not only one of the most influental screenwriters and directors of the ’70s and ’80s, he put Meryl Streep on the map of film stardom when he directed her in “Kramer vs. Kramer“. After co-writing Hollywood classics, including “Bonnie and Clyde”, “What’s Up, Doc” and “Superman”, Benton received a Best Director and Best Picture Oscars for “Kramer” in 1980, as did Dustin Hoffmann and Meryl Streep. Streep has often credited his openness to make Joanna Kramer more relatable for the audience instead of just being the villain to the story. He let the actress rewrite her courtroom scene – which is most probably the scene that won her the Oscar. Benton and Streep would reteam in 1982 for “Still of the Night“, a Hitchcockian thriller that bombed with critics and audiences. While Streep has said it might be the only film she’d like to erase from her filmography, from an artistic standpoint, the film itself is not as bad as it’s been talked about. Benton would win a third Academy Award for his screenplay for “Places in the Heart” and would continue directing throughout the ’90s and ’00s, including “Nobody’s Fool” and “The Human Stain”. In the above picture, Streep is pictured with Benton, Hoffman and producer Stanley Jaffe, who also died this year, on March 10, at the age of 84.

As previously speculated (see our post below), Meryl Streep is indeed part of “Only Murders in the Building”‘s cast for season 5. Pictures from the New York set have been published today by various news outlets, as you can see below. We can expect season 5 to premiere this August, like the previous seasons. Edit: Additional magazine scans covering the filming have been added to the photo gallery, with many thanks to Alvaro for sending it in.

Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” is currently filming season 5. Among the new recurring stars added to the series are Renee Zellweger, Christoph Waltz, Keegan-Michael Key and Téa Leoni. But can we also expect more Meryl? There hasn’t been an official announcement, no set-picutres – and quite a closed story line. After leaving season 3 for Hollywood, Streep’s supporting role of Loretta Durkin was reduced to a guest starring appearance in season 4, at which end her character zips off to New Zealand the morning after the wedding because her Grey’s Anatomy spin-off has relocated there. It felt like the writers thought they’re good for now, but there’s a chance to bring her back. On Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, newly-minted Academy Award winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who plays Detective Donna Williams on the show, promoted her new film and was asked about working with Meryl Streep. When asked by Kimmel if it was “everything she hoped it would be?”. Randolph replies: “Not yet. However, and I say that because I’m greedy, I want more. So if you go back to season 3, I lock her up. So I just put handcuffs on her. But, John Hoffman, the showrunner, told me that he’s gonna make it up to me this season, so yeah.” So, is this confirmation of a return to the series? It’s quite vage and could also mean a bigger arch for Detective Donna Williams – or in fact, more Meryl in season 5. You can watch the conversation (starting at 1:35 minutes) on Jimmy Kimmel Live’s Youtube channel. Let’s see what season 5 will bring us when it most probably premieres in the Summer.

As news are still running low and there’s nothing to report on upcoming projects, let’s dwell in the past a little longer. A bunch of fantastic magazine scans from the 1980s have been added to the photo gallery, ranging from 1983 to 1989 and coming from Portugal, France, Italy and the United Kingdom, so there’s something for everybody. Many thanks as always to my friend Alvaro for sending in these great finds. Enjoy reading.

According to World of Reel, there’s apparent early talk that Meryl Streep will be voicing Aslan, who will be female, in Greta Gerwig’s “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew.” Aslan in the novels is a talking lion who serves as Narnia’s guardian and mentor. Streep hasn’t appeared in a film since 2021’s “Don’t Look Up,” and that was very much a supporting role. She’s mostly been doing television on “Only Murders in the Building.” The 21-time Oscar nominee is also rumored to portray musician Joni Mitchell in Cameron’s Crowe’s much-anticipated biopic, but there’s been no update concerning that project since late last year. Gerwig’s planned ‘Narnia’ adaptations are Netflix originals, and all indications are pointing toward Gerwig tackling C.S. Lewis’ book “The Magician’s Nephew.” Gerwig’s Netflix deal is comprised of two movies she will direct. Word recently came out, via Bloomberg, that with or without Gerwig, Netflix are planning to produce eight ‘Narnia’ movies in total. Streep is the fourth performer that’s been rumored to star in ‘Narnia.’ The others have been Daniel Craig, Charli XCX, and Saoirse Ronan. The film is aiming to start production in late summer with a theatrical release on Thanksgiving Day 2026, followed by a release on Netflix in December 2026.

On October 19, 1999, the Feminist Majority Foundation raised money for its efforts to focus attention on human rights abuses against women in Afghanistan at an event held at the W New York Hotel. “Shroud of Silence”, a documentary written and produced by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, was shown, and speakers included Eleanor Smeal, the organization’s president, Meryl Streep, Marlo Thomas and Bonnie Fuller, the editor in chief of Glamour magazine, with a musical performance by Melissa Etheridge. In her remarks on stage, Meryl Streep spoke about leadership.

I have been asked to talk about women and leadership. I feel uniquely unqualified to speak on this topic, in the present company, for many reasons, chief among them: I am not a leader; I’ve just played leaders on TV. I really can’t get anyone to do what I say, at home or at work. But I do have this fantasy job where I can, say, own a coffee plantation and order literally hundreds of people to do my bidding, or I can pretend to be Karen Silkwood and lead an insurrection in a power plant. Or I can, as I did in the next film, stand on the stage of Carnegie Hall, count to eight and bring Isaac Stern and Itzhak Perlman in on the Bach Double Violin Concerto, which we all then play to perfection. But, of course, when they call “cut,” Mr. Stern goes back to actually running Carnegie Hall, Mr. Perlman really goes back to being one of the greatest violinists in the world, and I go back to not being a conductor. I go home and ask very nicely if everyone would please scrape, dump and load their dishes into the dishwasher before they go upstairs! And I am a voice crying out in the wilderness. I am a virtual leader, and an actual mother, a very specific schizophrenia I’m sure I share with many in this room.

I am an actor, and an actor is a figment. I have distinguished myself by expressing other people’s pain, joy, weakness and triumph in a process that remains pretty mysterious to me when I do it. I’m famous for being Somebody Else. And so, I feel unworthy. In searching, desperately, for the thing we all have in common, I realized this: We all choose. This is where acting and life are the same. I do choose who, and how, and with whom to play. What I will and will not do. Acting is a series of choices. And so is life. Once, when I was playing the leader of an expedition down a 200-mile stretch of Class 5 white water, I took a lot of credit for bravery. But the real queasy moments came in the marketing meeting, when I made big enemies because I wouldn’t approve the use of my big face on the poster pointing a pistol at America. The N.R.A., rich as it is, doesn’t have the money or the clout to get glamorous actors of such renown to pose for their ads. But we do their flogging for free every time we point the gun at the camera for an ad campaign. My eldest daughter has been determined to lead since she was born. Most of the time the rest of us roll over and let her, but when she was 6, we were on a hike down a steep, rocky path. “I’ll be the leader,” she screamed, and ran on ahead.
“No!” I told her. “This time I have to go first because it’s dangerous.”
“But I want to be the leader!”
“No. I have to go in front of you, so if you fall, I can catch you.”
“But I want to go first!”
“You don’t even know where we’re going. Why do you have to get there first?” “Mom,” she said calmly, “you be the leader, I’ll be the winner.”

And that’s the way we’ve worked it out at our house.

After a fun February with a few public appearances, it has been a rather dry March. The previously announced Women Making History Awards Gala only featured a video message by Streep, which was not posted online, so there’s nothing to report. But there’s new material for the archives: Production stills, promotionals and on-set pictures from “Sophie’s Choice”, “Silkwood”, “Out of Africa” and “A Cry in the Dark” have been added, among others. A full list of all updates can be found below. Enjoy.

Yesterday, Meryl Streep was honored with her 4th Emmy Award. For what, you may ask? Last year, she participated in a reading of “The Three Questions”, written and illustrated by Jon J Muth and based on a story by Tolstoy. The 11-minute clip is part of StorylineOnline, the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s children’s literacy program that streams online. For her reading, Streep received a nomination as Children’s Personality at the 3rd Annual Children’s and Family Emmy Awards, which are given out by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, “honoring creativity and innovation in children’s entertainment”. So, we can now congratulate Meryl Streep on two Primetime Emmy Awards (for “Holocaust” and “Angels in America”), a Creative Emmy (for narrating “Five Came Back) and a Children’s & Family Emmy for “The Three Questions”. If you haven’t seen it by now, you can watch a full segment of her reading in the video archive.

The hit Broadway play welcomed Meryl Streep, Martin Short, Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein in the audience on Saturday, March 8. Oh, Mary! follows “a miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln” in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s 1865 assassination. The show plays at the Lyceum Theatre in New York City and is directed by Sam Pinkleton. Gilpin joined the cast on Jan. 21 in her Broadway debut, taking over the eponymous role for a limited, eight-week engagement. A couple of pictures have been added to the photo gallery.