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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.”

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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.

James Bond is returning to cinemas in 2020 with No Time To Die, the 25th film in the long-running franchise. Between the international trailer and the recent Superbowl trailer, we’ve seen quite a bit of Bond’s next adventure, which will see Daniel Craig return as the character one last time. As hype builds, though, fans will take whatever they can get–including a car ad that uses footage from a scene in the film.

Land Rover has debuted a new ad for their Defender four-wheel drive, which features in the new film and has already been spotted in the trailer. The ad, which has debuted on the James Bond YouTube page and is narrated by Craig, features rehearsal footage from a car chase scene that has been shot for the new film.

This might not give us any great insights into the plot for the new film, but it looks like a fun scene. It’s not quite as fun as the recent James Bond vs. Daniel Craig Heineken ad, though.

No Time To Die will also star Ana de Armas (Knives Out), Léa Seydoux (Death Stranding), Lashana Lynch (Captain Marvel) and Rami Malek (Until Dawn). In other news about No Time To Die, the film’s China premiere has been canceled amidst fears for the Coronavirus, and Billie Eilish has debuted her titular song for the film.

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