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The relevant Live Action Sailor Moon portion of this update is basically just the picture you see to your right but there's something very interesting in that photo. Sailor Moon seems to be wearing a later season broach; namely her S season broach. Remember when I mentioned how it was peculiar that the little feathers in her hair were there, given the fact that she didn't get them until the S season in the anime. (And yes it had been correctly pointed out to me that this was the case from the beginning in the manga.) I just wanted to remind you I noticed this... for whatever reason.
The article this photo comes from is located here. Surprisingly that article doesn't talk about the new Sailor Moon series at all. Rather it looks at what it calls the "Live Action Boom." It discusses not only what it claims is a recent 'blooming' of anime-turned-live-action films/TV shows in Japan, but comics turned into live action films in America. (It uses the examples of Spiderman and "The Hulk.") This is the first mention I've seen of the new Sailor Moon series being part of a national, and maybe even global trend. Very interesting.
Also, delving into the Genvid Project's vast Japanese geographical/historical resources, I present you with your useless facts of the day: the TBS channel (no, its not the TBS cable channel you know) building that the new Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon series will be broadcast from is located in Akasaka in Minato ward. This is very close to the Azabu-Juuban district in which almost all of Sailor Moon occurred. The building itself actually has connections to the Sailor Moon anime series, although I'm not going to get into it at this time.
Back in the Meiji era of Japanese history (the latter quarter of the 19th century) the key phrase in the city of Tokyo was "rich country, strong army!" and this area became one of the few army training grounds in the actual city's interior. The third infantry regiment and second infantry brigade of the Imperial Guards were stationed in Akasaka, on the very hill upon which TBS television has its offices and studios.