Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep are talking about starring in the famous adaptation and Pulitzer prize-winning play created by Tracy Letts, the “August: Osage County.” The film will be shot starting next summer.

The play was first performed in the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago on the year 2007. It went all the way to Broadway and London productions where it garnered the Tony Award for best play and Pulitzer for drama.

A man named Harvey Weinstein had been trying to develop its film version in 2007. But, John Wells is said to direct the film for the Weinstein Company. Wells writing and directing debut on “The Company Men” will be launched on October 22, 2010 by the Weinstein Co.

The play revolves around a conflicting family filled with buried pains that have come to see each other after their patriarch dies. The main characters involve the matriarch of the clan, Violet and her three daughters with whom Barbara is the oldest daughter.

In the film, Streep takes the role of Violet and her confrontational relationship with her daughters while Roberts takes the role of Barbara, as well as her estranged relationship with her husband.

Roberts previously starred in the movie, Eat Pray Love. She will appear next year in Tom Hanks ‘Larry Crowne’ for the Universal. On the other hand, Streep’s last casting was made in the 2009 comedy shows, “Complicated”, as well as “Julie and Julia”.

The movie is starting to create a buzz in the entire celebrity world. This is going to be a prestige film that is yet to award Julia Roberts, Street and the Weinsten Co. for their first-class performances.

Paris Hilton, an American socialite and heiress, settled her lawsuit against Hallmark because of their manufactured greeting card that featured Paris’ image with her catchphrase, ‘That’s Hot!’

The famous personality claims that the greeting cards manufacturer had based that scene from her reality show entitled, “The Simple Life”. The image caption says, “Paris’s First Day as a Waitress.”

With the pun made on her catchphrase, Hilton sued the bosses on the Hallmark firm, stating that they had violated her publicity rights.

A week ago, attorneys from both parties had told the California judge that they had already reached a settlement. The exact details about the agreement were not released due to the confidentiality provision; however, many believe that Hilton’s party had received a favorable package.

The hotel heiress filed the lawsuit against the company last 2007, and Hallmark replied with a free-speech defense. In fact, the case was brought up until the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that gave Hilton a big legal victory just last year.

The court of appeals rejected the greeting cards company’s protected-speech dispute. The case was then brought back to the lower court.

Everyone was expecting Hilton to fight the case against Hallmark in court up until December. However, their lawyer’s announcement last week had suggested the settlement of the case.

In 2007, Hilton had served a sentence in the Los Angeles County jail as a result of numerous legal incidents. Also, a week before the news about the settlement, Hilton was refused by Japan’s immigration officials to enter the country because of her summer police arrests with drug charges.