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Meryl Streep has won Oscars, Emmys, a bevy of Golden Globes and multiple SAG Awards. She was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award, a Kennedy Center Honor and even the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama. If there’s an award, Streep has probably won it. But there’s a prize that has eluded her all these years: the Grammy. This year she received her seventh nomination from the recording academy. Will she finally take the trophy home?

This year she’s up for Best Audio Book, Narration and Storytelling Recording for “Big Tree,” the audio book recording of Brian Selznick‘s middle-grade adventure novel. She was previously nominated five times for recording children’s projects: “The Velveteen Rabbit,” “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” “The Tailor of Gloucester,” “The One and Only Shrek” and “Charlotte’s Web.” And she has one musical nomination for her contributions to the “Mamma Mia!

The studio is teaming up with Frederick Warne & Co. part of Penguin Random House UK, for a live-action-cg feature based on the Beatrix Potter children’s books to feature the voice of James Corden in the lead.

Rose Byrne, Daisy Ridley and Elizabeth Debicki have also joined the voice cast.

Will Gluck will direct Peter Rabbit, which will be made at Sydney-based Animal Logic, the animation and visual effects studio, with the support of the Australian government through Screen Australia and Screen Nsw and in collaboration with Sony Pictures Animation.

Production on Peter Rabbit is due to commence in January 2017 in time for an April 2018 worldwide release. Sony Pictures Entertainment will create a worldwide licensing and merchandising campaign in association with Warne.

Gluck and Zareh Nalbandian of Animal Logic are attached to produce, with Doug Belgrad serving as executive producer alongside Jodi Hildebrand of Olive Bridge and Jason Lust.

Rob Lieber wrote the screenplay with revisions by Gluck...

This bunny is on the money! In honor of Beatrix Potter’s 150th birthday, the Royal Mint is bringing one of her most beloved characters to life on a U.K. coin. The author’s mischievous Peter Rabbit will be the first children’s literary character to appear on British currency. Printed in magnificent color, the vegetable-stealing bunny appears on a British 50p coin (the equivalent of around 70 cents) to mark the 150th anniversary of the author's 1866 birth. Peter is featured in his iconic blue jacket, with that famous sly look in his eyes - watch out Mr. McGregor! The coin,...