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 Apple today seeded new fourth betas of upcoming iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming a few days after Apple initially released the betas. It is not clear what is different with the original beta 4 software (build (22A5316j) and the new beta 4 software (build (22A5316k), but the update is available to all developers.
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The Boys may be one season away from ending but it's not done caking your screens with blood and torn muscle tissue. Cast member Jensen Ackles who plays Soldier Boy on The Boys revealed at the San Diego Comic-Con that Amazon will produce a prequel of the superhero show called Vought Rising.
The new prequel will take place in the 1950s during the early days of the evil Vought empire, the mega conglomerate that runs the entire superhero industry in The Boys' universe. The new series will show the early exploits of characters like Soldier Boy and the almost-immortal Nazi supe Stormfront played by Aya Cash. The story will revolve around some kind of "twisted murder mystery about the origins of Vought," according to executive producer Eric Kripke and showrunner and executive producer Paul Grellong.
Vought Rising sounds like a reimagining of Watchmen without the brooding and self-importance. That's not to say Watchmen is bad. Those things and its brutal honesty about the nature of its characters are what makes it great but would it kill Rorschach to make just one curse-laden pop culture reference?
The Boys has become Amazon's Game of Thrones. Even when the main series ends, it won't be the last we hear from it. The same Comic-Con panel also revealed its college themed spinoff Gen V is getting another season, according to GamesRadar . There's also another spinoff in development called The Boys: Mexico
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We haven't had an update on Netflix's Bioshock movie in a couple of years, leading some to wonder if it was quietly canned. The good news? The movie's still coming. The (potential) bad news? The budget has been slashed, according to reporting by Variety.
This comes from producer Roy Lee, who was one of the people behind The Lego Movie. He announced the reduced budget during a panel at San Diego Comic-Con. He didn't put out any numbers, but did say that the movie is currently being "reconfigured" to be a "more personal" film. Director Francis Lawrence is still helming the picture. He has directed four of the five Hunger Games movies, along with I Am Legend and the original Constantine.
The Bioshock film was first announced back in 2022, but since that time Netflix has experienced something of a regime change on the executive level. Dan Lin replaced Scott Stuber as the streamer's film chief and Lin has tightened the purse strings away from stuff like Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon.
"The new regime has lowered the budgets," Lee said at Comic-Con. "So we're doing a much smaller version."
In addition to budget cuts, Lee noted that Netflix has changed its compensation strategy with regard to movies. It's shifting to a more traditional model that relies on bonuses tied to actual viewership numbers.
This could actually be good news. In my opinion,
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