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Netflix has released a trailer for I’m Not Okay With This, a new series about Sydney, a teen girl played by Sophie Lillis (young Beverley from It) who suddenly discovers that she has special powers. The series, which is adapted from a Charles Forsman graphic novel and directed by Jonathan Entwistle, was produced by the same producers as Stranger Things.

This is not the first time Entwistle has adapted a Forsman novel for Netflix–he also directed two seasons of End of the F***ing World, which wrapped up in 2019.

The trailer, below, opens with a blood-soaked Sydney, but it looks like there will be more conventional dramatic elements, too.

Lillis stars alongside Wyatt Oleff, who was also in It. He played Stanley Uris in the It films; here, he plays a character called Stanley Barber. He doesn’t exclusively play Stanleys, though–he also featured as young Peter Quill in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies.

The series will debut on the streaming platform on February 26.

Netflix has a lot of original films planned for 2020 too–here’s a selection. Stranger Things is also returning for a fourth season this year, and we’ve recently seen a first teaser.

The Coronavirus outbreak in China has impacted the production of iPhones, and as such, Apple is expecting to make less money during the current fiscal quarter. The company is also expecting worldwide iPhone shortages.

Apple said in a statement that it no longer expects to reach its projected revenue of between $63 billion and $67 billion for its Q2 2020, which ends on March 28.

“Work is starting to resume around [China], but we are experiencing a slower return to normal conditions than we had anticipated,” Apple said in a statement to GameSpot sister site CNET. “As a result, we do not expect to meet the revenue guidance we provided for the March quarter.”

The Coronavirus is impacting demand for the iPhone from Chinese customers and the company’s ability to produce the phones, which is why it’s projecting revenue to decrease.

“Worldwide iPhone supply will be temporarily constrained,” Apple said. “While our iPhone manufacturing partner sites are located outside the Hubei province–and while all of these facilities have reopened–they are ramping up more slowly than we had anticipated.”

Go to CNET to get more on this story.

The Coronavirus, which has killed more than 1,600 people in China alone, may also lead to Nintendo Switch shortages. It remains to be seen if the PS4 and Xbox One, and the PS5 and Xbox Series X, will face production issues as a result of the Coronavirus.

In other games news, Obsidian’s celebrated RPG The Outer Worlds has been delayed for Nintendo Switch because of the Coronavirus.

Amazon’s Lord of the Rings TV show is one of the most-anticipated projects currently in the works, and as such, it’s seemingly a highly sought-after job for actors. A lot of the cast has already been announced, but that hasn’t stopped people from sending in audition tapes in the hopes they might land a role in the big-budget fantasy show.

Glenise Mullins, one of the writers of the Amazon show, has been receiving these tapes–and wants you to please stop sending them. “I’m sure they’re great and I trust you’re super talented. And I really do understand your passion, but again, I’m not involved in the casting,” Mullins said.

Another writer, Gennifer Hutchinson of Breaking Bad fame, replied, “Yeeeaaaahhhhhh” to suggest she was also receiving a lot of audition tapes. Patrick McKay, one of the showrunners of the Amazon Lord of the Rings show, replied to Mullins and Hutchinson with the Anchorman “sorry” GIF.

The cast of the untitled Lord of the Rings show was recently announced, and it includes an actor from another huge fantasy series–Joseph Mawle, who played Benjen Stark on Game of Thrones. Welsh actress Morfydd Clark is playing a young Galadriel, but other details about specific characters in the show are unknown.

The Lord of the Rings TV show is set during the Second Age, which is thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings. As such, you probably shouldn’t expect many characters from the books or movies to appear, though Galadriel may be an exception because she was born before the First Age even began.

In other news about the show, Amazon recently confirmed that a stunt actress suffered a head injury during rehearsals recently. Thankfully, she is doing OK now and is expected to return to work soon.

Outside of the TV show, more details the new Gollum video game and the upcoming Lord of the Rings MMO have been confirmed.