After battling grandiose villains and teaming up with other superheroes, it's back-to-basics for 'Iron Man' in the third installment of the multi-million-dollar franchise featuring Robert Downey Jr.
'Iron Man 3,' which opens in most of the world on Friday and on May 3 in the United States, has Downey reprising his role of superhero industrialist Tony Stark from the first two films as well as last summer's 'The Avengers.'
Collectively, the three films have made about $2.7 billion at the global box office in the past five years.
'Iron Man 3,' which continues Stark's storyline from both sets of Marvel franchises, centres around the evil extremist known as The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) who is hell-bent on destroying the United States....
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06:29 PM, Nov 28, 2011
New Delhi: Amidst all the big ticket literary prizes on the Indian landscape, the one that still has the most hearts racing is the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize. After all, as the name suggests, the winner is always a first-time author, and what better start to a literary career than to win an award with your first book? The prize, set up in memory of the talented writer and...
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London: Singer Lady Gaga, who is known for her bizarre dressing sense, is shown producing alien life forms in scenes from her new video for her comeback single "Born this way". The seven-minute promo to the song features Gaga simulating labour on the planet G.O.A.T., after which slimy creatures emerge from between her legs, reports thesun.co.uk. In other patches of the promo, Gaga does a jig with both male and...
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