'Wallace & Gromit' Embarrasses A.I.Obsessed CocaCola In Battle of the Christmas Ads Keegan KellyNovember 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM 0 The CocaCola Corporation keeps trying to push soulless, ugly, artificialintelligencegenerated slop onto the public around the holidays when all we really want for Christmas is kickass claymation.

- - 'Wallace & Gromit' Embarrasses A.I.-Obsessed Coca-Cola In Battle of the Christmas Ads

Keegan KellyNovember 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM

The Coca-Cola Corporation keeps trying to push soulless, ugly, artificial-intelligence-generated slop onto the public around the holidays when all we really want for Christmas is kickass claymation.

The annual slate of manipulative, hollow and cynically saccharine TV commercials that clog up the airwaves during the winter months has reached a new low in recent years, as companies such as Coca-Cola have seemingly decided that the best way to celebrate the season of giving is to take work away from human animators and video editors. When Coca-Cola first rolled out its anti-human A.I. commercial last holiday season, the company suffered mass public backlash – but now the soda giant believes that they have perfected the secret formula for a robot-made commercial that won't turn up our noses in disgust.

However, Coca-Cola's second attempt to celebrate the season with A.I. slop has gone just as poorly as the first among the online animation community – but over in the United Kingdom, the scarf-seller Barbour collaborated with the legendary animation studio Aardman to make an anti-robot Wallace & Gromit short that reminds us that, when it comes to Christmas, hand-made, sentimental charm will always be worth the extra cheese.

Of course, at the end of the day, both this sponsored Wallace & Gromit short film and the Coca-Cola commercial featuring woodland creatures awaiting the arrival of Santa Clause in a Coca-Cola-branded semi-truck are both just advertisements designed to maximize profits during the most lucrative season in capitalism. However, studios such as Aardman getting the work is always a cause for celebration among die-hard fans of man-made animation, and nobody from the Wallace & Gromit team will ever have to go on a press tour to defend their creation from outraged critics.

Plus, more Wallace & Gromit will always be a win for those animation enthusiasts with good taste, even if it comes at the cost of a little product placement. Break out the cheese and crackers – and put away the soda.

Get more Cracked directly to your inbox. Sign up for Cracked newsletters at Cracked News Letters Signup.

Original Article on Source

Source: "AOL Entertainment"

Source: Entertainment

Published: November 07, 2025 at 04:45PM on Source: PRIMO MAG

#ShowBiz#Sports#Celebrities#Lifestyle

byDamon Long

in

November 07, 2025

'Wallace & Gromit' Embarrasses A.I.-Obsessed Coca-Cola In Battle of the Christmas Ads

'Wallace & Gromit' Embarrasses A.I.Obsessed CocaCola In Battle of the Christmas Ads Keegan KellyNovember 7, 202...

"Frankenstein" Movie Ending Explained: Where Does the Creature Go? Yasmeen HamadehNovember 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM 0 Netflix 'Frankenstein' (2025) Mary Shelley's book inspired Guillermo del Toro's scifi Gothic movie Frankenstein The director changed the ending of the book to show the Creature's humanity Frankenstein, starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, premiered on Netflix on Nov. 7 Fans of Mary Shelley's iconic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus might be leaving Guillermo del Toro's 2025 film adaptation a little surprised.

- - "Frankenstein" Movie Ending Explained: Where Does the Creature Go?

Yasmeen HamadehNovember 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM

Netflix

'Frankenstein' (2025) -

Mary Shelley's book inspired Guillermo del Toro's sci-fi Gothic movie Frankenstein

The director changed the ending of the book to show the Creature's humanity

Frankenstein, starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, premiered on Netflix on Nov. 7

Fans of Mary Shelley's iconic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus might be leaving Guillermo del Toro's 2025 film adaptation a little surprised.

The sci-fi horror flick, which had its global premiere on Netflix Nov. 7, follows the turbulent life of scientist Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) as he embarks on an unorthodox experiment to create life after death.

The result is a monster known as the Creature (Jacob Elordi), a character whose own personal journey and quest for companionship has inspired a myriad of work since Shelley's inception of him in 1818.

While del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein remains mostly loyal to its source material, the acclaimed director makes a daring choice to diverge from Shelley's book by the film's end, choosing to craft a finale laden with hope rather than tragedy.

So what does Frankenstein's ending mean? Here's everything to know about the film's finale and what Guillermo del Toro has said about its significance.

How does Frankenstein (2025) end?

Netflix

'Frankenstein' (2025)

Following the deaths of his brother William (Felix Kammerer) and his sister-in-law Elizabeth (Mia Goth), Victor vows vengeance on the Creature and dedicates the rest of his life to a merciless pursuit of him.

His hunt eventually leads him to the Arctic, where he's discovered wounded by a stranded troupe of sailors who offer him shelter on their trapped ship. While resting on the boat, Victor begins telling his story to the ship's captain, Anderson (Lars Mikkelsen), but is interrupted midway by the Creature, who has made it aboard.

Rather than destroy his creator, however, the Creature tells his side of his life's story and recounts the neglect and abuse he's faced at Victor's hands. The conversation prompts a moment of catharsis for Victor, who finally realizes how he's failed the Creature as his creator and subsequently as his father.

Victor quickly apologizes for his past cruelty and begs the Creature for his forgiveness in the film's final few moments. He also implores the Creature to keep living life as he is, before succumbing to his wounds and dying.

The Creature, finally at peace after having received the closure he needed from his creator, leaves the ship and helps push it out of the ice it was stuck in. As the boat sails away, the Creature quietly stares into the sunrise with a smile on his face.

How is Frankenstein's ending different from the book's ending?

Netflix

'Frankenstein' (2025)

While both Shelley's book and del Toro's Frankenstein end with Victor having told his story to a captain in the Arctic before being found by the Creature, how the stories conclude, and their impacts differ.

In the book, Victor finishes telling his story and vows to keep hunting the Creature, no matter what it takes, as a salve for his actions. But before being able to fulfill that promise, Victor dies while aboard the ship due to his poor health.

It is at that moment when the Creature finally arrives on board, only to discover that his creator is now dead. After mourning Victor's death, the Creature indicates that he now also plans to leave this life, and departs the ship to burn himself on a pyre.

Frankenstein's ending notably diverges from its source material in several ways. Firstly, the Creature in del Toro's adaptation is immortal and therefore unable to die. Secondly, and perhaps most glaringly, the Creature and Victor forgive each other at the film's end, unlike the book, which offers catharsis through death.

What does Frankenstein's ending mean?

Ken Woroner/Netflix

'Frankenstein' (2025)

The ending in del Toro's Frankenstein is evidently one of bittersweet hope.

With the onset of sunrise, the Creature has chosen to embrace and live his life fully despite all his broken — literal and symbolic — parts.

To drive the point further, del Toro ends Frankenstein with a quote from English poet Lord Byron's piece "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" that reads, "The heart will break and yet brokenly live on."

Although the Creature finds catharsis at the end of both Shelley's text and del Toro's adaptation, one leans on a more tragic note, while the other offers a sense of hope befitting a modern retelling of Frankenstein, focused on the power of kindness and empathy.

By the film's conclusion, Victor has been able to break the pattern of generational abuse born from his troubled relationship with his father, Baron Leopold Frankenstein (Charles Dance), leaving the Creature to grow from that cycle of hurt.

What has del Toro said about Frankenstein's ending?

Netflix

'Frankenstein' (2025)

In an October 2025 interview with Man of Many, del Toro reflected on the film's divergence from the book's ending and pointed to the different themes that helped shape his decision.

"The movie has sort of a circular structure. It starts with the sun rising on the captain on the ship, and ends up with the sun rising on the Creature," the director explained. "And I thought, 'Well, if the idea is that he's going to live forever, can he still welcome the sun? Can he still welcome being alive?' "

"Imperfection is the condition of life," the Pan's Labyrinth director continued. "You will lead an imperfect life. And I think the movie makes peace with that and forgiveness and what it is to be human, which is to be capable of seeing the other," he noted, adding that these were the themes that propelled the movie toward a "different" image by its end.

"It's probably one of my most hopeful endings, in a strange way," he concluded.

on People

Original Article on Source

Source: "AOL Entertainment"

Source: Entertainment

Published: November 07, 2025 at 04:45PM on Source: PRIMO MAG

#ShowBiz#Sports#Celebrities#Lifestyle

byDamon Long

in

November 07, 2025

“Frankenstein” Movie Ending Explained: Where Does the Creature Go?

"Frankenstein" Movie Ending Explained: Where Does the Creature Go? Yasmeen HamadehNovember 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM 0...

From child actor to star: Lea Michele's return to Broadway's Imperial Theatre MARK KENNEDY November 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM 0 1 / 4Theater Lea MicheleLea Michele appears during a performance of "Chess," at the Imperial Theatre in New York. (Matthew Murphy via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — Lea Michele was just a kid actor backstage at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway when she first heard a song from the musical "Chess" on a stereo. Some three decades later, she finds herself singing that same tune in the same theater.

- - From child actor to star: Lea Michele's return to Broadway's Imperial Theatre

MARK KENNEDY November 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM

1 / 4Theater Lea MicheleLea Michele appears during a performance of "Chess," at the Imperial Theatre in New York. (Matthew Murphy via AP)

NEW YORK (AP) — Lea Michele was just a kid actor backstage at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway when she first heard a song from the musical "Chess" on a stereo. Some three decades later, she finds herself singing that same tune in the same theater.

The "Glee" and Broadway veteran, who got her professional start in "Les Misérables" at age 8, has returned, now a mother and a bankable star, to her old stomping grounds, which coincidentally is the very theater where "Chess" made its debut in 1988.

"The Imperial Theatre really has a soul. Every show that's ever been in it is absorbed in the walls. It's a little eerie, but very powerful. Other theaters can feel a little sterile, but this does not feel that way," she says.

She remembers exactly where she sat the first time she saw "Les Misérables" — orchestra left, six rows in — hearing Paige O'Hara as Fantine sing "I Dreamed a Dream" in the musical that she would soon join, playing Young Cosette and Young Eponine.

"I was in the show and I told my parents, I said 'I love this. I want to do this for the rest of my life.' And it's really very emotional to be here 30 years later still working, thank God, back at this theater," she says. The icing on the cake? An electrician on her return simply said: "Welcome home."

What's 'Chess' about?'

"Chess," which opens Nov. 16 and is set primarily in Bangkok and Budapest during the Cold War, tells the fictional story about two chess grandmasters — an American played by Aaron Tveit and a Soviet, portrayed by Nicholas Christopher — facing off to win for their respective nations, a task complicated by the appearance of a woman they both love, played by Michele.

"This is the hardest character in a lot of ways that I've ever played," Michele says. "She's a woman. She's strong. I don't have comedy to lean on as a crutch or as a kind of like a protective cloak."

The show reunites Michele with Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer, who directed her both in her breakout " Spring Awakening " in 2006 and also in "Funny Girl" in 2022.

Mayer also has great memories of the Imperial Theatre. It was the place where he saw his first Broadway show — "Pippin" in 1976 with Ben Vereen. He was in the back row of the mezzanine, eight seats in from the right aisle. "I sat there and everything came back," he says.

The show, with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA, originated as a concept album in 1984 and includes the goosebump-raising "Anthem," the pop-pulsing "One Night in Bangkok"— which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 — and the lilting "I Know Him So Well."

The musical, first staged in London in 1986 and heavily revised for a Broadway production in 1988, has a cult fan base, but the Broadway production was a flop, lasting less than 90 performances. Attempts have been made to resuscitate it over the years with concerts and new stagings. A new story has been written for the latest iteration by screenwriter Danny Strong.

Michele is aware of the show's somewhat spotty legacy and swirling questions about its workability. She compares the noise to when she was launching "Spring Awakening" and people would wonder about how 1890 Germany with rock music and teenage sex would work.

"I think we're just really excited for people to see what we've been able to do. We're not ignoring the history of our show, but we just know what we have and I think that it will really all make a lot of sense once everyone gets to see it."

Michele and Mayer

The relationship between Michele and Mayer has evolved and deepened over the 25 or so years they've known each other. He says he's watched her grow up and no longer feels like a father figure. Now they're peers.

"I feel like we're not just colleagues, but we're dear friends. I would almost say we're family at this point," he says. "I met her when she was 14 years old. We've been in each other's lives for many, many years now. And being able to work together and have that sort of shorthand has been amazing."

To prove it, he mentions that he had an idea the night before about a big change he wanted to make. "Lea woke up at 3 o'clock this morning with an idea," he says. "We blurted it out to each other this morning at the start of rehearsal and it's the same idea."

Michele's mind drifts back to those days when she was a child at the Imperial Theatre. The other girls in her dressing room played songs from Broadway shows like "Miss Saigon" and "Bye Bye Birdie" — including one from "Chess" called "Heaven Help My Heart." Now it's one of her songs.

"Here we are 30 years later now back at the Imperial. So that's pretty crazy," she says.

Original Article on Source

Source: "AOL Entertainment"

Source: Entertainment

Published: November 07, 2025 at 04:45PM on Source: PRIMO MAG

#ShowBiz#Sports#Celebrities#Lifestyle

byDamon Long

in

November 07, 2025

From child actor to star: Lea Michele's return to Broadway's Imperial Theatre

From child actor to star: Lea Michele's return to Broadway's Imperial Theatre MARK KENNEDY November 7, 2025 at...

New Photo - Fourth Disney World guest dies in 1 month

A woman in her 40s was transported to a local hospital on Sunday, marking the fourth unexpected death to occur in the vicinity of the Floridian parks in a month. Fourth Disney World guest dies in 1 month A woman in her 40s was transported to a local hospital on Sunday, marking the fourth unexpected death to occur in the vicinity of the Floridian parks in a month. By Wesley Stenzel :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/WesleyStenzelauthorphoto32b61793a2784639af623f2ae091477e.jpg) Wesley Stenzel is a news writer at . He began writing for EW in 2022. EW's editorial guidelines November 5, 2025 4:07 p.m.

A woman in her 40s was transported to a local hospital on Sunday, marking the fourth unexpected death to occur in the vicinity of the Floridian parks in a month.

Fourth Disney World guest dies in 1 month

A woman in her 40s was transported to a local hospital on Sunday, marking the fourth unexpected death to occur in the vicinity of the Floridian parks in a month.

By Wesley Stenzel

Wesley Stenzel

Wesley Stenzel is a news writer at **. He began writing for EW in 2022.

EW's editorial guidelines

November 5, 2025 4:07 p.m. ET

Cinderella's Castle at Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla.

Cinderella's Castle at Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. Credit:

Gary Hershorn/Getty

Another theme park guest has died during a trip to Walt Disney World.

On Sunday, a parkgoer, described as a woman in her 40s, was taken from Disney World to a nearby hospital where she died, a representative for the Orange County Sheriff's Office in Florida tells ** in a statement.

A cause of death was not immediately available, but authorities say that "there were no signs of foul play" in the incident.

A representative for Disney World did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment.

A statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse stands in a garden in front of Cinderella's Castle at the Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World on May 31, 2024, in Orlando, Florida

Walt Disney World.

Gary Hershorn/Getty

The incident marks the fourth death in as many weeks near the Florida resort.

Summer Equitz, a guest of Disney's Contemporary Resort hotel near the Magic Kingdom park died on Oct. 16. A representative for the Orange County Sheriff's Office emphasized that despite incorrect social media reporting suggesting otherwise, the guest "was NOT struck by the monorail, so that is erroneous information."

Less than a week later, a guest died at Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground in Florida. The decedent, who was a man in his 60s, was found unresponsive in his bed on Oct. 21. After his wife called 911, medical personnel used an automated external defibrillator and transported him to AdventHealth Celebration, where he was pronounced dead.

Another guest of the Contemporary Resort hotel, Matthew Cohn, died two days later on Oct. 23.

Disney mourns death of 44-year-old gorilla who died at Animal Kingdom: 'Touched countless lives'

Gino; Animal Kingdom

Scarlett Johansson gives 'Tower of Terror' movie update on Disney World ride adaptation

Scarlett Johansson; Tower of Terror at Disney World's Hollywood Studios park

Tragedy also struck at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., when a woman in her 60s died after riding the Haunted Mansion attraction on Oct. 7. Matt Sutter of the Anaheim Police Department told EW that "Disneyland security personnel provided CPR until paramedics arrived."

***Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our EW Dispatch newsletter.***

Prior to the recent deaths at Disney parks, a 32-year-old guest at Universal's Epic Universe in Orlando died on Sept. 17. The parkgoer, Kevin Rodriguez Zavala, died from "multiple blunt impact injuries" after becoming unresponsive while riding the Stardust Racers roller coaster. Zavala had a pre-existing spinal condition and was on medication upon riding the coaster.

Universal Orlando's president and COO Karen Irwin sent an emotional memo to resort staffers after the incident, writing that "few moments have been as difficult as this one" and reiterated that "safety is, and always will be, at the forefront of everything we do" at the parks.

Original Article on Source

Source: "EW Lifestyle"

Source: Lifestyle

Published: November 07, 2025 at 04:38PM on Source: PRIMO MAG

#ShowBiz#Sports#Celebrities#Lifestyle

byDamon Long

in

November 07, 2025