UPDATE: Apples New iPad Boasts 4G LTE Broadband And Upgraded Photo Capabilities

UPDATE 11:39 AM: The large event would be to introduce what Apple Boss Tim Prepare simply calls “the new iPad.” It'll be available March 16. The Wi-Fi only version with 16 GB of memory will certainly cost $499, similar to the iPad2 — and models that accommodate its new 4G LTE capacity on Verizon or AT&T will start at $629.Add $100 to each cost to move around 32 GB and also the other C-note for 64 GB of memory. Unsure just how much data plans will certainly cost. The iPad2 it's still offered — too for $100 less (i.e. $399 with 16 GB of memory). Battery round the new iPad will run 10 several hours, but 9 several hours on 4G. Clients can dictate text and instructions. The business states it has a obvious, crisp Retina Display, with 3.1M pixels — greater than an Hd tv.Furthermore, it might convey more energy in comparison to current iPad: it'll work on an A5X quad core graphics processor. Professionals spoken within the iPad’s new energy to create and manipulate photos. It has a 5 mega-pixel iSight camera on back, with auto exposure, auto-focus, and face recognition. Furthermore, it may record video in HD and may have software stabilization.The iMovie application can get an update: clients could make trailers furthermore to movies. New iPhoto applicationallows usersto edit images and transmit them right to other items. It'll accommodate photos around 19 mega-pixels. Having a completely new journal feature, clients can mix photos with text, maps, and calendars.Boss Tim Prepare states the business has offered 15.4M iPads. “We set to produce not just a awesome product, but a completely new category.” More youthful crowd mentioned the organization will update its Apple TV having a completely new interface. The up-to-date device will probably be obtainable in a couple of days and cost $99. Also, movies and tv shows inside the iTunes store will probably be accessible in 1080P HD quality. Clients can re-download content. PREVIOUS, TUESDAY PM:The media event remains shrouded with typical secrecy, while using invite saying only,”We have something you require to determine. And touch.”New Apple Boss Tim Prepare will advise you what’s inside the new tablet. Gossips are rampant.They break lower using this method: The completely new device will in all probability be referred to as theiPad HD because itimprovesviewing. Also expected is ‘retina display’ which Hollywood will enjoy.Siri’s presence might be awesome.The iPad look isn’t prone to change considerably or much whatsoever.But it is predicted to experience a faster processor (from dual-core A5 processor todual-core A5X processoror evena quad-core A6 processor).The next iPad may be Apple’s first 4G LTE device.Large question for you is when the new iPad’s cost will rise. Nevertheless the smart cover may be upgraded.Finally, you'll find gossips that Apple could update its $100 set-top box along with its iPad, possibly to greater accommodate transmitting HD video fromiPad’s screen totelevision.

Componen dates Cirque pic, 'Fun Size'

Vital has slotted a trio of their releases, together with a holiday bow for James Cameron's professional created "Cirque Du Soleil: Mobile phone industry's Away" along with a Halloween release for that Josh Schwartz-helmed laffer "Fun Size." Studio also introduced that "My Mother's Curse" has become entitled "The Guilt Trip," and will also be launched November. 2, 2012. Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand star within the pic helmed by Anne Fletcher. "Cirque Du Soleil: Mobile phone industry's Away," written and directed by Andrew Adamson, will bow 12 ,. 21, 2012. "Fun Size," starring Victoria Justice, will open March. 26 -- making sense, because the film involves a woman who manages to lose her little brother on Halloween evening and should find him before their mother finds out he's missing. Contact Justin Kroll at justin.kroll@variety.com

Adam Sandler Makes Record-Breaking 11 Razzie Nominations

"The Artist," the schmartist. Adam Sandler was the actual champion a few days ago. Or at best he's should you consider a lot more than doubling the record quantity of Razzie nominations one has ever received in one year to become an accomplishment. The actor's three films this year -- "Go By Using It,Inch "Jack & Jill" and "Bucky Larson: Born to become a Star" (that they assisted produce) -- gained Sandler a great total of 11 Razzie nominations this season, including Worst Picture and Worst Actor. That's pretty, thinking about you will find only 10 groups to become nominated in. Much more impressive is the fact that "Jack & Jill," probably the most significantly panned movies of the season, handled to attain 12 nominations, also racking in additional noms than you will find groups. Because the official Razzie website known as it, it had been a "Berry Bad Year for Adam Sandler." But Sandler's films were not the only real ones to become vilified through the Razzies. "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Beginning -- Part 1" gained eight nominations, only controlling not to be broken within the Worst Supporting Actor and Actress groups. "Transformers: Dark from the Moon" also walked away with seven nominations. It appears such as this year's Razzies are Sandler's to get rid of, though. Hopefully he'll make a look and feel only at that year's ceremony -Held properly on April 1 -- since he's damaged the worst-of film honours show's previous record for many nominations. That recognition choose to go to Eddie Murphy for his five Razzie nominations in 2007 for "Norbit." Do you consider Sandler had badly annually because the Razzies say he did? Inform us within the comments section below or on Twitter!

REVIEW: Ghost Driver: Spirit of Vengeance Another Flaming Pile of Cage-y Nonsense

Whenever you will not win on points, you may as well make an effort to shoot the moon - that seems being the clear way of thinking behind Ghost Driver: Spirit of Vengeance, the follow-up to Marvel's 2007Ghost Driver. Realizing their stunt driver who turns into a flaming skeleton-monster character in addition to their star who turns using what are less performances than performance art were unlikely to produce a film that might be regarded as nearly as good in any traditional sense, the art galleries have specific rather to produce a thing that holds its lunacy. To supervise this endeavor, they introduced in Mark Neveldine and John Taylor, the pointing duo behind the Red-colored-colored Bulled-out, forever moving Crank films, who ignore a lot of the products happened inside the first Ghost Driver, plant their tongues firmly in mouth area and loose Nicolas Cage to accomplish his oddest. It's not as wild or as fun as it can appear (or that it should be striking the evening time-movie sweet place it aims), but it's a little step-up in the unintentional silliness in the initial installment. Ghost Driver: Spirit of Vengeance moves the knowledge to Eastern Europe, where sinister forces are trying to capture 13-year-old Danny (Fergus Riordan) for use inside the fulfillment from the doomy conjecture. The child and also the mother Nadya (The American's Violante Placido)come in hiding while using to start two sects of tough monks (the foremost is overseen by Anthony Mind, the second by Christopher Lambert), until they're chased lower by a number of mercenaries introduced by her ex, Carrigan (Johnny Whitworth) who was simply hired to produce the boy being the completely new vessel for Roarke (Ciarn Hinds), theliving embodiment of Satan (look, I don't get this stuff up). An alcoholic French priest (Idris Elba) recruits Johnny Blaze (Cage) towards saving the pair using his Ghost Riderly forces while using commitment of dealing with him in the curse, though Blaze fears he'll not be capable of control the demon that provides him enough to not also consume the folks he's trying in order to save. Cage plays Blaze just like a tweaker, a restless, shaky mess who jumps skull eye whenever he struggles to handle his inner monster. It's a performance that starts off as awkward but progressively evolves to new arias of strange threatening a flunky from whom he's searching to obtain information, he notes the motive force is "scraping in! He's SCRAPING In! If you don't Tell me what he or she must KNOW, I'm prone to permit him to oooooooooout!" Cage jerks and flinches and laughs maniacally - inside the more memorable shots, a camera attached for the front of his motorcycle holds on him while he accelerates, cackling, through town, gaping black eye electrical electrical sockets bending his face then getting tamped lower. Neveldine/Taylorhave apparently become Cage also to get familiar with the transformed Driver this time around around around, an addition which will come through inside the demon's odd mind tilts and dancey fits. Cage is provided a run for his money byElba (who uses his character's accent as you would employ a swirling cape) and Hinds, who've a pork-off inside their particular roles, though Cage emerges triumphant just within the sheer effort he is applicable towards the role. Ghost Driver: Spirit of Vengeancescores some deliberate laughs - the motive force spins oddly in mid-air once you have shot having a bunker buster,a personality who is able to make things decay along with his touch finds really the only factor that doesn't crumble in the possession of before he eats it is a Twinkie, and lastly the question from the products happens once the Ghost Driver must pee is solutions (it's "as being a flamethrower") - nevertheless the smugness in the film evolves wearying extended just before the conclusion. Due to the fact individuals on and behind the digital camera are ready to acknowledge what we should are watching is absurd garbage doesn't really change the fact, well, it's. For filmmakers as gifted asNeveldine/Taylor are (and they are, as theexhilaratingfreedom from the camerawork attests), it's a disappointment, evidence the atmosphere quotes in the world won't construct your finish project far better if there is nothing sincerely good thrown inside too. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Alas, Titanic 3d Proves Much like Unnecessary when you Thought

I desired to consider James Cameron &mdash I really did! &mdash nevertheless it calculates the three-D conversion of his megahit Titanic is not only the craven cash grab many of us feared, but it's furthermore a visually drab re-rendering from the otherwise amazing technical achievement. Womp wooomp. Vital and Fox apparently situated a few dozen offered-out Valentine's previews in the film, that press elites like Roger Ebert and David Belgium were requested their reactions. (My invitation must have been lost inside the mail, however, I'd a hot date with Linsanity your evening anyway.) And merely what about people reactions! First Ebert, who gives Titanic a rigorous and careful second-over before coping with the takeaway many of us are waiting for: Cameron has justly been proven to be one of the handful of company company directors to take advantage of 3d usefully, in Avatar. But Titanic wasn't shot for 3 dimensional, and basically when you cannot gild a pig, you cannot make 2D into 3d. [...] There's more in it than that. 3d creates a noticeable decrease in the brightness in the screen. Some say around twenty percent. In the event you saw an regular film decreased much, you might complain for the management. Here you're stated to become grateful you'd the opportunity to purchase a surcharge with this particular defacement. If you're conscious of it, you will find that many shots and sequences in this particular version aren't in 3d whatsoever, but remain in 2D. For off your glasses, they'll pop in the screen with considerably enhanced brightness. I realize why the film is at 3d. It's to warrant the extra charge. This can be a shabby approach to treat a masterpiece. "Welllll," the skeptic states, "Ebert's never loved 3-D." Fair enough! So - disappear, Mr. Belgium: I used to be happy that whenever we have got for the theater, it switched to 't be IMAX 3d. People glasses are absurd which i have only had a few happy encounters with this particular specific format. (I that can match IMAX and dont always dislike 3d.) Therefore I didnt get annoyed through getting the glasses on after we seen the several hours of film roll by. However... I came across myself attempting to accept glasses off frequently. Here's why: its like watching the film using a filter. Think of it as darkness, think of it as clearness think of it as everything you like. But also for me, especially on Titanic, the slight facial fur and periodic acne beneath the make-on Kate Winslet as well as the small pock marks on Leonardo DiCaprios face are a component of the closeness in the movie. The film takes such painstaking efforts to acquire everything right... If only to uncover their location, like the defects. With people glasses on, I really could not. Some might be pleased to avoid seeing detail... to offer the image smoothed out a lot more. While not me. This kind of person beautiful. Their defects are beautiful. Anyway, this will make lots of money and potentially become the perfect next cause of not visiting the films again, so... yeah. Mark your calendars. Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

The Rock Talks Fast 6 And 7

They're not going to shoot back-to-back after allFollowing the glorious tosh that was Fast 5 (or Fast & Furious 5: Rio Heist once we are made to think of it as inside the Uk), talk was in the next two instalments shooting back-to-back. Sadly, Dwayne Manley just told MTV he doesn't think that's still this program. However it doesn't matter: Fast 6 will still go just before the cameras in May."We'd try shooting them together," certifies his Rockness. "It could appear sensible ultimately have the identical crew and everybody area. However think we're dealing with some weather issues, so from a few things i know we will probably shoot Fast 6 first, then concern yourself with Fast 7 somewhat later."Weather issues? That could be down to our unpredictable European climate. "We could be inside the Uk and that we could be in Germany," Dwayne thinks, although he doesn't say if both people locations or part of 6, or perhaps be it one each for six and 7.What this might make apparent is always that Manley is at for your extended haul as US marshal as well as the planet's best hunter Luke Hobbs: the dogged Javert round the trail of Vin Diesel's Jean Valjean. Or something like that like this. Rejoice!Fast 6 already features a release date in May 2013, and Manley was speaking throughout the campaign trail for the next franchise he's attempting to save. GI Joe: Retaliation is going inside the Uk on June 22.

'Bel' rings changes

When Brit theater veterans Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod were approached by "The Whole Monty" producer Uberto Pasolini to direct a film version of 1800s novelist Guy p Maupassant's "Bel Ami," it absolutely was as if each of their Christmas wishes had be realized simultaneously.InchIt is really a novel that people have always aspired to carry out a facet of,In . mentioned theater director-author Donnellan, whose stage credits include "King Lear" and "The School for Scandal.""It's a completely modern theme about fame and corruption in which a guy discovers the easiest method to energy is through the women in Paris," he mentioned. "It's all about fame and funds created inside a global through which ladies have plenty of influence.""Bel Ami," which premieres in Berlin on Friday and it has an outstanding cast including Rachelle Lefervre, Christina Ricci, Kristin Scott Thomas and Uma Thurman, might be the duo's first feature.Donnellan and theater designer Ormerod co-founded worldwide legit company Mouth area By Jowl where they have co-produced numerous plays including "The Changeling" and "Cymbeline.""The thing that was really ususual is always that we labored as two company company directors round the 'Bel Ami' but introduced very separate capabilities for the table," Ormerod mentioned. "I labored mainly with space, like theater and-specific space, whereas Declan spoken to and directed the heavens generally.InchDonnellan confesses the understanding will be a rewarding one. "I learned something totally new here but you'll find, clearly, plenty of parallels between film and theater," he mentioned."What's absolutely the identical is always that you're bottling existence in theater and film. It's the existence inside the shot which means something too as with stage, you've created that every evening whereas in film, it must be canned. But we needed in it as being a duck to water."Pic, which preems in Blighty on March 9 via Studiocanal, was introduced towards the organization company directors by Pasolini in 2004. Rachel Bennette composed the script and labored while using duo on developing it before lensing began in Budapest and London.The 9 million ($11.8 million) pic, produced by Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment and provided by London-based Protagonist Films, finished shooting couple of years ago and several have wondered why it's taken this kind of very very long time striking the bigscreen."There is available a version since we're all happy with,Inch mentioned Donnellan. "It's taken a really very long time as it is a massive story. It absolutely was ready to visit last August but due to a couple of from the actors' agendas, we've required to wait to create the film and then we obtain full support."Despite the fact that the duo have not yet decide what their next feature will probably be, it is said they actually want revisit the medium."We're dying to produce another film and us came alive once we were making 'Bel Ami,' " mentioned Donnellan. "It gave us enormous oxygen and and that we continue to be tripping about it.In . Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com

Oscars: Street closures announced

Street closures to accommodate the live telecast of the 84th Academy Awards will begin at 10 p.m. Sunday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and the City of Los Angeles announced Tuesday.To ensure public safety, support security strategies and facilitate the production of the awards, Hollywood Boulevard will be closed in front of the Kodak Theater between Highland Avenue and Orange Drive Sunday evening and will remain closed until 6 a.m. Feb. 28.The closure will allow construction of press risers, fan bleachers and pre-show stages along the Academy Awards red carpet.MTA subway trains will bypass the Hollywood & Highland station after the last regularly scheduled train on Feb. 25, until 6 a.m. Feb. 27. Service at the station will resume with the first scheduled train after 6 a.m.Between Feb. 19, and Oscar Sunday, Feb. 26, additional streets and sidewalks will be closed for varying periods.Details of the closures and maps of affected areas are available from the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, the Sixth and the Thirteenth District City Council field offices, at navigatehollywood.com, and oscars.org/closures. Contact Christy Grosz at christy.grosz@variety.com

Jirafa readies Leiva's 'Groenlandia'

Bruno Bettati's Jirafa Films, whose "The Summer time of Flying Seafood" reaches the Berlinale Co-Production Market, is preparing "Groenlandia," helmer Jose Luis Torres Leiva third film.Occur the Valdivia mountain tops in the lakeside village of Puerto Fuy, pic follows a 73-year-old retired person whose much more youthful g.f. announces she's pregnant."The landscape is again a personality in Torres Leiva's film, but 'Groenlandia' could be more dramatic and actor-driven, and employ professional stars," Bettati stated.A black-humored family dramedy, "Flying Seafood," may be the fiction debut of Chilean-French helmer-scribe Marcela Stated, whose third documentary, "The Youthful Butler," performed Berlin's 2011 Forum."Seafood" has drawn lower Chilean subsidy funding plus gold coin from France's " new world " Movie theaters Aid plan. It'll begin lensing in November, stated Bettati, who, with Sergio Gandara, has walked lower as professional director at film promotion board CinemaChile. Chilean TV producer Constanza Arena has changed them.Chilean cinema appears to become transitional phase with projects including "Groenlandia," Pablo Larrain's Gael Garcia Bernal-starrer "No" and Alicia Scherson's "The Near Future,Inch with Rutger Hauer, which Jirafa co-produces, mixing art along with a commercial tilt. Bettati noted that "5 years ago, i was searching for funding and funding and funding and purchasers were something you accomplished later on."Now, he stated, Chilean producers secure sales representatives before a movie is completed. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Euro cold spell can't slow 'Ghost'

In the Feb. 3-5 weekend that saw lots of northern Europe digging from under snowstorms, Paramount's "Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol" collected $24.3 million, notching its third-straight frame atop the overseas box office (and fifth overall towards the top) and pushing the pic's worldwide take past the $400 million mark. Getting an international cume of $626 million, "Ghost Protocol" might be the finest-grossing pic globally for Tom Cruise, whose previous best, "War in the Cell phone industry's," made $591.7 million in 2005. "Ghost Protocol" is playing in 64 overseas areas, including China, where the film made around $20 million in 72 hrs. That reps a 46% gain round the film's two-day opening the last weekend, getting a present local cume of $55.7 million. "Ghost Protocol" accomplished good results in the stockpile of screens in China -- roughly 3,000 -- in contrast together with other areas like Italia, where the pic examined at 367 locales for just about any weekend total of $1.6 000 0000, losing a great 47% within the second outing, getting its local cume to $5.5 million. Also undertaking well overseas, last century Fox's teen thriller "Chronicle" first demonstrated in 3 3 areas for just about any three-day gross of $12.9 million. It bowed finest in the U.K., where it assigned the chart, at $3.5 million, then Australia and Russia, which brought $3.millions of and $2 million, correspondingly. Pic bowed at No. one out of Oz, too as with second-devote Russia. Winter in the united states will be a primary factor because market's so-so results, particularly to see relatives films like Disney's "The Muppets," which completed slightly under anticipation, collecting just $millions of on 360 screens. "The Muppets" collected a reported weekend total of $3.5 million, pushing the pic's offshore cume to $30.2 million. Emilio Mayorga brought with this report. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com

Machete sequel could film in April

Good new for fans of B-movie trashiness, as Robert Rodriguez has set the wheels in motion for action sequel Machete Kills. And what's more, it could be with us sooner rather than later...Having seen the first film make a respectable profit (a $44 million take against a $10.5 million budget), a script is reportedly in place for the sequel, with Rodriguez hoping to start filming in April.Danny Trejo is reportedly in talks to reprise his role as the badass Mexican hit-man, and from the sounds of it, the new plot is even more out there than the original.Machete Kills will see Trejo's character attempting to foil the villainous machinations of a billionaire arms dealer, who plans to spread war across the globe with the assistance of a mega weapon... in space.How Rodriguez has managed to resist calling this one Machete In Space is beyond us, but if the second film is a success, we could see him complete the trilogy with mooted second sequel, Machete Kills Again.However, given that the long-promised Sin City 2 still remains no closer to fruition, we'd advise taking these grand plans with a pinch of salt...

Nine chosen for TV Acad exec committee

Gail Berman, Jason Kilar, Steven Lafferty, Steve Mosko and Dana Walden have been appointed to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences executive committee for 2012-13 by chairman/CEO Bruce Rosenblum. Rosenblum, who was elected to the post by the Academy's board of governors in November, filled five of his six slots with the appointments, approved by the board, which also elected Beth Bohn, Michael Olman, Lori Schwartz and Rob Swartz to the exec committee. "I couldn't be happier that this esteemed group of industry leaders and colleagues has agreed to join the Academy's executive committee," said Rosenblum. "I have great respect for each of these executives and feel extremely fortunate to have the opportunity to collaborate with them along with the board of governors as we look to expand our mission and elevate the profile of the Television Academy." Berman is co-owner and founding partner of production company Berman Braun, Kilar is CEO of Hulu, Lafferty is CAA head of television and managing partner, Mosko is Sony Pictures TV prexy and Walden is, along with Gary Newman, chairman of Twentieth Century Fox TV. Bohn is president of Beth Bohn Management and represents the professional representatives peer group. Olman comes from the Cinema Audio Society, on behalf of the sound peer group. McCann Worldgroup chief technology catalyst Schwartz will represent the interactive media peer group, while independent producer Swartz will represent the TV execs peer group. Rosenblum outpolled Nancy Bradley Wiard in November's election to become the highest-ranking exec to head the organization, which presides over the primetime Emmy Awards, since then-Walt Disney Studios chief Richard Frank in the 1990s. Contact Jon Weisman at jon.weisman@variety.com

Chris Smith's United kingdom Film Report Released

ITV and Sky told to step upA week on from David Cameron's questionable comments apparently promoting the mainstreamification from the British film industry, The almighty Smith's review has been released, showing less inflammatory than we may have feared. The report champions "as wide a variety of films as you possibly can,Inch Cruz guaranteed, "in the overtly commercial towards the overtly arty and far among.InchThe Pm "knows, just like we all do, that there's an entire selection of movies and kinds of movie that people support. He's very obvious on that," he added."We're not attempting to dictate a creative vision. We are attempting to occur place a variety of financial and legislative plans that will enable an extensive selection of movies to become made. We're not creating a distinction within the review between something known as mainstream then one known as... another thing.InchThe report's 56 recommendations include elevated film education in schools a plan to obtain projection equipment into towns that do not possess a local cinema more powerful purchase of training and abilities development, having a beady eye on technology elevated measures to combat piracy and also the inauguration of the annual celebration, like a "British Film Week" to "provide audiences over the United kingdom with access fully spectrum of British film, providing them with a larger understanding of its breadth, depth and originality."Outdoors that British Film Week however, the report does not cash to say of the distribution systems that make independent British films hard to catch in United kingdom movie theaters. Therefore if you are outdoors London and you are not lucky enough to get possess a Watershed or perhaps a Cornerhouse or perhaps your own regional equivalent, you might still find it difficult to see a small fraction of what's created.Call-Me-Dave's comments concerning the industry increasingly "dynamic and business", will have some roots within the report's strategies for leaving an "overall reliance on public funding" and rewarding commercial success. The report advocates using test tests to gauge potential audience response before a movie is completed, to ensure that it may be modified accordingly (out of the box common Hollywood practice). Also it indicates that the film's profits visit its producers, director and authors (instead of their needing to return their lottery funding) for reinvestment later on projects."The key of rewarding success is essential if [film-makers] did it once, they are likely to get it done again," stated Cruz. The federal government won't dictate towards the BFI which films should receive its support, however the BFI "should bear the crowd in your mind.InchThe almighty Smith's independent review panel also designated tv stations Sky and ITV because of not doing enough within their support of British film. "They're doing hardly any, and that we believe they must be doing more," Cruz stated."We've recommended the federal government sits lower with each one of the tv stations to ascertain if a contract could be arrived at to make sure greater purchase of and purchase of British films.We've also recommended when agreement works out to become impossible it's something the federal government might turn its focus on within the Communications Act that is suggested for a while within the next couple of years. Hopefully that will not be necessary and tv stations may wish to step-up towards the plate under your own accord."Both Sky and ITV protested this via claims, with Sky saying it intends to increase purchase of "homegrown content" to £600m by 2014, and ITV trumpeting it makes Downton Abbey.Work welcomed the report, with shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Harriet Harman saying it "provides an important chance for that Government to provide the film industry the support it requires and warrants, and also to welcome a brand new era for British film."Shadow Culture Minister Serta Jarvis stated, "The Federal Government now needs to hear The almighty Smith's review and make up a climate by which our film industry could flourish."Erectile dysfunction Vaizy, the Conservative Minister for Culture, Communications and inventive Industries, who commissioned the report, states the federal government can make a proper response inside a couple of several weeks time.

Is Sweet Valley High A Musical?

Diablo Cody teases the possibilityWhen Diablo Cody promised back in November that her in-the-works new Sweet Valley High movie would be "a feast for the senses", we didn't quite expect this. Speaking to MTV, Cody has teased that we might possibly expect her Francine Pascal-inspired opus to arrive as a musical."There's original songs being written for it right now," she revealed, "which is the most exciting development. They're amazing. They're being written by these Tony and Pulitzer winning songwriters from Broadway who are the best!"Asked if that actually meant SVH is going to be a musical, she grinned "Perhaps it is..."Cody previously talked about her film being "to the '80s what American Graffiti was to the early '60s", which might in itself indicate the need for an extensive soundtrack. But George Lucas' nostalgia trip used wall-to-wall classic choons, whereas Cody's hints at all-new Broadway showstoppers now suggests something slightly different...Whatever, we can certainly expect "glamorous and bubblegum". And perky twins, since the books were about Elizabeth (the goody two-shoes one) and Jessica (the reckless one) Wakefield, blonde twins with blue-green eyes and perfect size 6 figures (as we were reminded in every single book) and their trials and tribulations at high school. Sweet Valley High is still officially "in development", so it's a while away yet. In the meantime, Cody's death metal crisis-of-faith drama Lamb Of God is in pre-production, and Young Adult, which she wrote for Jason Reitman, is out on February 10.

VIDEO: Revenge's Paolo Says Declan Will Become An Important Piece in the Grayson Divorce

Christa B. Allen, Connor Paolo Revenge's Conrad (Henry Czerny) and Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) may have never warmed up to the fact that their daughter Charlotte (Christa B. Allen) is dating a townie, but Connor Paolo, who plays Declan, says that the Graysons will soon be fighting for his affection. "Conrad and Victoria are looking for leverage, and Charlotte's big leverage," Paolo says. "Whoever keeps Charlotte happy has a big point over the other one, and being nice to Declan makes Charlotte happy." See photos from Revenge In the video interview below, Paolo talks about a major bump in the road Charlotte and Declan will face and how soon all the show's characters will be in a dark, rough place. Revenge airs Wednesdays at 10/9c on ABC.