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a day ago
- Entertainment
- News18
Ironheart OTT Release: When And Where To Stream Marvel's New Series
Last Updated: The Ironheart series aims to follow Riri Williams's fight against the dark arts performed by people around her. Marvel Studios is all set to release Ironheart on OTT. Starring Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams, this action-packed story follows her journey to Chicago. After MCU's 2022 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Ironheart follows Riri Williams, an MIT student and a genius investor, who brings back her talent to her hometown. Her journey is highlighted by her acquaintance. Parker Robbins, aka The Hood (played by Anthony Ramos). Ironheart is set to premiere the first three episodes on June 24 on Disney+, and the remaining episode will likely drop a week later on July 1. Indian audiences will be able to watch the show on JioHotstar. The miniseries will contain six episodes, titled Take Me Home, Will The Real Natalie Please Stand Up?, We In Danger, Girl, Bad Magic, Karma's a Glitch, and The Past Is The Past. The Ironheart series aims to follow Riri Williams's fight against the dark arts performed by people around her. The plotline develops as she fearlessly attempts an iconic run for herself. Dominique Thorne will be reprising her role in this series along with Anthony Ramos, Lyric Ross, Alden Ehrenreich, Manny Montana, Matthew Elam, and Anji White in prominent roles. Jim Rash will also return to the series to portray his character of the dean of MIT. Ironheart is a welcome addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which continues the story of Iron Man, which relied on Tony Stark. The series was introduced to expand the franchise's universe and introduce a new generation of heroes. The series further aims to showcase the conflict between technology and magic. The first three episodes of the series are directed by Sam Bailey, whereas the later episodes were directed by Angela Barnes. Following her brief introduction in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Riri Williams is returning as the main character in Ironheart. During the promotions of the show, Dominique Thorne and Anthony Ramos appeared on the Good Morning America show, where the host played a video of former Iron Man Robert Downey Jr wishing all the best to the actors as he said, 'Long story short, Iron Man loves Ironheart." First Published:
Time of India
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Ironheart on OTT: All you need to know about its release date, plot and where to watch it
1 2 Another Marvel movie is dropping on the OTT platform and is all set to win your hearts once again. 'Ironheart' stars Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams, following her path to returning to Chicago. It will be a miniseries, intended to be the 14th television series in the ' Marvel Cinematic Universe .' The plot As a sideways sequel to 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,' Ironheart pits technology against magic. This happens when Dominique Thorne, a genius inventor who is determined to make her name in the world, comes back to Chicago, which is her hometown. Thorne is not just a brilliant student at MIT but also tries to make an iron suit. In pursuit of her ambitions, she finds herself wrapped up with the mysterious yet charming Parker Robbins, 'The Hood,' played by 'Anthony Ramos' and builds a close friendship with him. The starring cast The cast includes the protagonist Dominique Thorne as the Ironheart, Lyric Ross as Natalie Washington, Alden Ehrenreich as Joe McGillicuddy, Regan Aliyah as a to-be-confirmed character, Manny Montana as John, Matthew James Elam as Xavier Washington, Anji White as Ronnie Williams, and Anthony Ramos as Parker Robbins/Hood. Release date and where to watch it Ironheart will premiere its first three episodes on June 24 on Disney+. The other three will drop a week later on July 1, streaming on JioHotstar in India. Further, the episodes will be named as 'Take Me Home,' 'Will the Real Natalie Please Stand Up?,' 'We in Danger, Girl,' 'Bad Magic,' 'Karma's a Glitch,' 'The Past Is the Past.' by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like What She Did Mid-Air Left Passengers Speechless medalmerit Learn More Undo Why is Ironheart special for the Marvel universe? Ironheart aims to continue the Iron Man story, which was dependent on Tony Stark. Ironheart is all set to conclude Phase 5 of the universe, with releases like 'Avengers: Doomsday,' which is set to be the last series as of now. The first three episodes have been directed by Sam Bailey, followed by Angela Barnes taking over the other half.
USA Today
05-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
The Rink at RBC Canadian Open is ready to rock. Will 2025 deliver the first hole-in-one?
The Rink at RBC Canadian Open is ready to rock. Will 2025 deliver the first hole-in-one? One year ago, during the third round of the RBC Canadian Open, Canadian golfer Mackenzie Hughes arrived at the par-3 13th hole at Hamilton Golf & Country Club and described the scene as pandemonium. Before he could hit his tee shot, the fans at The Rink, the hockey-themed hole wrapped in boards on both sides of the tee, goalie helmets as tee markers, a goal on the tee, and a Zamboni ice-resurfacing machine nearby, serenaded him with Canada's national anthem. 'The hair on the back of my neck stood up,' Hughes said. They sang 'Hey, Baby!' before Trace Crowe teed off and John Denver's 'Take Me Home, Country Roads,' in between groups, while Rory McIlroy was treated to a Ryder Cup-esque 'Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole!' When the pounding of hands slapping the boards slows down, there's organ music just like they used to play at the old Maple Leaf Gardens (now Scotiabank Arena) and DJ Summer Knocks, the official DJ of the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs added some authenticity this year. The Rink, born eight years ago, might see its first hole-in-one It was a hare-brained idea that debuted eight years ago and is now part of the fabric of the RBC Canadian Open. This year, The Rink is slimmed down from 230 yards a year ago and is set up at the downhill, 144-yard par-3 14th hole at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley (North Course) in Greater Toronto's Caledon, Ontario, and some players say this could be the year for the first hole in one at The Rink. 'It's on a shorter par-3 and there's a couple pin locations (including back left) where you could see an ace and hopefully a lot of birdies and give the fans something to cheer for and get loud for,' said Canadian pro Taylor Pendrith, who dunked one on just his third swing of the day during charity scramble last summer. Credit goes to the executive director of Golf Saskatchewan, who suggested a hockey-themed hole to combine Canada's most popular pastimes, golf and hockey. It debuted originally in 2017 at Glenn Abbey. The first year, rowdy fans lined the hockey-style boards, which replaced traditional roping, on one side of the seventh hole. The next year, at St. George's, the boards were positioned on both sides of the 16th hole, which created a different vibe, and it just keeps growing with a double-decker tent lining the left side of the hole last year. Former RBC Canadian Open tournament director Bryan Crawford told PGA "I don't think anybody could have dreamed when that idea was brought forward that it would have grown to what it is today.' Shades of TPC Scottsdale's 16th hole It creates an electric atmosphere that is shades of the infamous 16th at TPC Scottsdale's Stadium Course during the WM Phoenix Open, only these fans tend to be buzzed rather than three sheets to the wind and while they slap the boards and singalong to their heart's content, it becomes quiet enough to hear a pin drop before a player tees off. "They get it," two-time RBC Canadian Open champion Rory McIlroy once said. So, too, do the pros, who have bought into putting a slice of Canada's national pastime into the act, wearing their favorite hockey jersey. Mike Weir has worn a Detroit Red Wings jersey. Dustin Johnson, a past champion before departing to LIV, used to rock an Edmonton Oilers jersey of his father-in-law, 'The Great One,' Wayne Gretzky. Former touring pro Graham DeLaet used to sport a Calgary Flames jersey. Three years ago, Golf Canada introduced The Rink at the Canadian Women's Open, with Brooke Henderson donning a sweater of her hometown Ottawa Senators and Nelly Korda a Chicago Blackhawks jersey, the team that her boyfriend played for at the time. And the players aren't the only ones dressing the part. The volunteer marshals rock the black-and-white vertical-striped shirts and black shorts resembling referees, and have dubbed the area around the tee "The Penalty Box." Just like at a hockey game, the fans booed and chanted 'Referees suck,' when one of them confiscated a plastic hockey puck that was being toss in the stands. It's fast become one of the more unique experiences at a professional golf tournament without feeling too contrived or the fans getting too out of control. 'On that Rink, there's like no space. It's just like the boards are right there on the tee and they're banging and they're screaming,' said Hughes, who wore a jersey as a tribute to a late friend last year. 'Walking on that tee, again, just a total hair-raising moment where, I mean, I'm trying to play it pretty cool, but inside I'm thinking this is really, really cool.'
Time of India
31-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
US visa curbs on Chinese students may backfire on the administration's decision
Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads One night in 1978, President Jimmy Carter got a phone call at 3 a.m. from a top adviser who was visiting China "Deng Xiaoping insisted I call you now, to see if you would permit 5,000 Chinese students to come to American universities," said the official, Frank Press."Tell him to send 100,000," Carter Christmas time that year, the first group of 52 Chinese students had arrived in the United States , just ahead of the formal establishment of US-China diplomatic relations on New Year's Day. A month later, Deng, then China's top leader, made a historic visit to America during which he watched John Denver sing "Take Me Home, Country Roads" and was photographed wearing a cowboy almost hard to believe how little contact there had been between the United States and modern China before that. Sinologist John K. Fairbank wrote in 1971: "Since 1950 Washington has officially sent more men to the moon than it has to China." The visits by Deng, and more important, by those first Chinese students, began a new chapter that would fundamentally change China -- and the world. The United States gained access to a vast market and talent pool, while China found a model and a partner for transforming its that chapter has closed, after the Trump administration announced that it would begin "aggressively" revoking the visas of Chinese students the millions of Chinese who have studied in the United States, myself included, it is a sobering and disheartening development. It marks a turning point that America, long a beacon of openness and opportunity, would start shutting its doors to Chinese who aspire for a good education and a future in a society that values freedom and human curbing people-to-people exchanges, President Donald Trump is taking a decisive step toward decoupling from China. To treat Chinese students and professionals in science and technology broadly not as contributors, but as potential security risks, reflects a foreign policy driven more by insecurity and retreat than by the self-assurance of a global to the new policy in China, reflected in the US Embassy 's social media accounts, was mixed. Some commenters thanked the United States for "sending China's brightest minds back." Others drew historical parallels, comparing the Trump administration's isolationist turn to China's Ming and Qing dynasties -- once global powers that declined after turning inward and were ultimately defeated in foreign invasions. One commenter remarked that the policy's narrow-mindedness would "make America small again."The shift also comes at a time when many young Chinese, disillusioned by political repression and economic stagnation under Xi Jinping's leadership, are trying to flee the country to seek freedom and opportunities."Xi is pushing many of the best and the brightest to leave China," said Thomas E. Kellogg, executive director of Georgetown's Center for Asian Law and a leading scholar of legal reform in China. "The US should be taking advantage of this historic brain drain, not shutting the door to many talented Chinese young people."The number of Chinese students in the United States dropped to about 277,000 in the 2023-24 academic year, a 25% decline from its peak four years earlier, according to government data. Students from China remained the second-largest group of international students, after those from India. In fact, applications for post-graduation temporary employment permits rose by 12% in 2023-24 over the prior year, signaling more interest in working in the United States despite the new visa policy will leave many of these students with little choice but to leave, or at the least reconsider their future in the United States.I interviewed a doctoral candidate in computer science at a top US university, a young man from China who first dreamed of studying in America at 17, when he began to question Chinese government propaganda. He arrived eight years ago and never seriously considering returning. But now, facing the threat of visa revocation, he said he is no longer sure if he can -- or even wants to -- stay."America doesn't feel worth it anymore," he said, asking me not to identify him for fear of retribution from Washington. The immigration process is fraught with anxiety, he said, and the returns no longer seem to justify the stress. He said he was exploring work visa options in Canada, Australia and Western Europe, even though he has a job offer from a big tech company on the West Coast of the United States."The pay might be lower," he said, "but those countries offer more personal freedom."His experience is in stark contrast to that of Dong Jielin, who was among the first Chinese students to come to the United States after the Cultural Revolution. When she arrived at Carnegie Mellon University in 1982 on a U.S. scholarship, she knew little about the country beyond what the Chinese state media had portrayed: a capitalist society in perpetual crisis and a people living in didn't take long for her perception to shift. "The moment I walked into a supermarket, I could see that life here was far from miserable," she told me in an interview. Encounters with Americans quickly dispelled other myths as well. "They were not vicious or hostile," she said. "They were warm and kind."Dong went on to earn a doctoral degree in physics, build a career in finance and technology, become a U.S. citizen and raise a US government has good reasons to worry about national security risks from China, including espionage and intellectual property theft. The FBI calls the Chinese government the most prolific sponsor of talent recruitment programs that aim to transfer scientific and technological breakthroughs to also makes sense to block people with ties to China's military industrial it's something else entirely to deny visas to 18-year-old students simply because they are Chinese and hope to pursue a STEM degree in the United officials often say they aim to distinguish between the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese people. That distinction was emphasized during Trump's first term. It's largely absent policy now targets anyone with ties to the Chinese Communist Party. But the party has nearly 100 million members, about 1 in 7 Chinese. And most children in China grow up as members of the Young Pioneers and Communist Youth League, school-based party organizations. It's just the way of life in a country ruled by a Leninist one commenter put it on the US Embassy's WeChat account, "How could any Chinese not be associated with the Party?"The policy is also very likely to found that Chinese undergraduates at US universities were more predisposed to favor liberal democracy than their peers in China. However, they said, exposure to xenophobic, anti-Chinese comments by Americans significantly decreased their belief that political reforms are desirable for China. Those who experienced discrimination were more likely to reject democratic values in favor of autocratic who have studied abroad also face growing suspicion at home. The government and some employers believe that exposure to Western values makes their fellow Chinese politically Mingzhu, chair of the appliance giant Gree Electric, said recently that her company will never hire a graduate from a foreign university. "There are spies among them," she the Chinese internet, some people compared her to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who announced the visa Jielin, the former student who was among the first to come to the United States, said the experience had a profound impact on her life, giving her the opportunity to explore the frontiers of science and is understandable, she said, that the government is raising screening standards for student visas. "But I believe the vast majority of those who stay in the US will, over time, become loyal American citizens," she said, just like herself.
Glasgow Times
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Glasgow Times
I saw Sophie Ellis-Bextor perform in Glasgow's Armadillo
Can we adopt Sophie Ellis-Bextor and call her our own? The London-born singer brought disco to the Armadillo on Saturday night - and a whole lot of enthusiasm for the city. And flattery about this Scottish city will get you everywhere with Glasgow fans, Sophie. (Image: Sophie Ellis-Bextor plays Glasgow's Armadillo in May 2025. Pic Calum Buchan.) (Image: Sophie Ellis-Bextor plays Glasgow's Armadillo in May 2025. Pic Calum Buchan.) (Image: Sophie Ellis-Bextor plays Glasgow's Armadillo in May 2025. Pic Calum Buchan.) (Image: Sophie Ellis-Bextor plays Glasgow's Armadillo in May 2025. Pic Calum Buchan.) Looking as fabulous as ever, dressed head to toe in sparkles of course, the star opened up proceedings with Relentless Love before amping up the atmosphere with her cover of Cher's 1979 hit Take Me Home. She said - while rhyming off facts about Glasgow with the same ease as a native - 'It's always a pleasure to be here. 'I love Glasgow very much, I do. 'The city has been such a big part of me and my music . 'I remember playing King Tuts, Oran Mor, The Garage, and Kelvingrove. 'It's always a pleasure to come back.' (Image: Sophie Ellis-Bextor plays Glasgow's Armadillo in May 2025. Pic Calum Buchan.) (Image: Sophie Ellis-Bextor plays Glasgow's Armadillo in May 2025. Pic Calum Buchan.) (Image: Sophie Ellis-Bextor plays Glasgow's Armadillo in May 2025. Pic Calum Buchan.) (Image: Sophie Ellis-Bextor plays Glasgow's Armadillo in May 2025. Pic Calum Buchan.) (Image: Sophie Ellis-Bextor plays Glasgow's Armadillo in May 2025. Pic Calum Buchan.) (Image: Sophie Ellis-Bextor plays Glasgow's Armadillo May 2025. Pic by Calum Buchan.) Showcasing those iconic velvet smooth vocals on Young Blood, the 46-year-old sounded exceptional while the new track Vertigo, taken from her upcoming album Perimenopop, gave fans a glimpse of what's to come. The party, however, really got started with a disco mix that included a cover of Modjo's Lady (Hear Me Tonight), ABBA's Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!, and of course, the song that launched it all for Sophie, Spiller's Groovejet (If This Ain't Love). What's great about Sophie is her ability to dance on stage like no one is watching. You're instantly drawn to her energy, and it's magnetic. She's geeky, truly knows who she is, and it's incredible to watch. Her voice is so unique, it gives her brand of disco an edge, and let's face it, you know when Sophie is singing. (Image: Sophie Ellis-Bextor plays Glasgow's Armadillo May 2025. Pic by Calum Buchan.) (Image: Sophie Ellis-Bextor plays Glasgow's Armadillo in May 2025. Pic Calum Buchan.) Taking in the admiration from her fans, she asked: 'Shall I just cancel the rest of the tour? What is the point? 'Shall we just move here?' And with a resounding yes from the fans, it was time for that song that was given a new life thanks to a little movie called Saltburn. Murder on the Dancefloor sent the crowd into a complete frenzy, and rightly so, it's an incredible pop anthem. READ NEXT: I saw Anastacia live in Glasgow - and she revealed her Scottish 'addiction' READ NEXT: I saw Kylie Minogue at the Hydro in Glasgow - it was a legendary performance (Image: Sophie Ellis-Bextor plays Glasgow's Armadillo May 2025. Pic by Calum Buchan.) (Image: Sophie Ellis-Bextor plays Glasgow's Armadillo May 2025. Pic by Calum Buchan.) Signing off with a smile, she said: 'Thank you, come see me again sometime,' before an encore of Bittersweet and a surprise appearance on the balcony to sing A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed.
