If you’re watching Super Bowl LX live right now, you’re in for another epic run of ads. Besides seeing the Seahawks vs. Patriots matchup, we are taking in movie teasers, funny app promos (looking at you, Ben Stiller) and food commercials on our TVs (or phone). The night isn’t done yet, so be ready for more companies to crank out their campaigns. 

We’ve gathered a small roundup for you — including those featuring artificial intelligence and Supergirl’s pop-up for Puppy Bowl. While some of these are full-length commercials meant to make you laugh, feel inspired or question what’s creepy, some are short teasers that will pique your curiosity (hey there, Jigglypuff). 

Get into The Mandalorian and Grogu, Ken (without Barbie), 50 Cent and much more, and stick with us all night for even more Big Game ad reveals. 

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The Mandalorian and Grogu

In a short Big Game teaser clip, The Mandalorian and Grogu trek through the snow, reminding us “the journey never gets any easier.”

Supergirl for the Puppy Bowl

Okay, so this isn’t an official gameday ad, but Supergirl showed up for the Puppy Bowl today, and DC dropped a teaser for the movie due out June 26. 

Liquid Death’s exploding heads

No, it’s not an episode of The Boys. Liquid Death’s new spot aims to blow your mind with its energy drink — but without losing your head. 

DoorDash and 50 Cent’s ‘beef’

Follow 50 Cent on Instagram, and at any moment, you’ll catch him trolling some of his famous peers — mostly to their detriment. This DoorDash gameday ad makes fun of his reputation for beefing with people (with a slick joke about Diddy), while he schools us on the “art of delivering beef.” Take notes. 

Manscaped serenade

You’ll have to watch this for yourself and arrive at your own conclusion, but we’re only posting the short version here. Head to YouTube for the extended cut. 

Southwest Airlines pokes fun at seating chaos

You know the airline recently switched to assigned seating, and this timely SB commercial jokingly looks back at the mayhem of an era before the new policy.

Scream 7

It’s the return of Sidney Prescott, Ghostface and a fan theory about Stu with this new, flame-filled big-game trailer that makes Sidney’s daughter a target. The movie arrives in theaters Feb. 27.

Google Gemini helps design a dream home

Google adds a human touch to showcase its Gemini AI assistant in this SB spot, where a little kid is genuinely excited to dream up what his new home will look like — including a place for his pup. 

Oakley Meta AI glasses

Marshawn Lynch is among the stars in Oakley Meta’s first Super Bowl ad that will debut this Sunday. Check out how the AI-powered glasses capture what Sky Brown, Sunny Choi, IShowSpeed, Spike Lee, Kate Courtney and Akshay Bhatia are doing on and off the ground. 

Anthropic throws shade at AI competition

We’ve covered how this Claude ad from Anthropic takes shots at OpenAI and its plans to test ads, but Dr. Dre’s What’s The Difference playing in the background kind of nails the message’s tone, in case it wasn’t clear. 

Dairy Queen’s Taylor and Swift

It’s a play on words in this DQ spot starring Tyrod Taylor and D’Andre Swift that’s urging fans to order platters for their own halftime snack breaks.  

Backstreet Boys for T-Mobile

A T-Mobile store performance from the Backstreet Boys earns tears from Druski, and a couple of cameos from Machine Gun Kelly and The Wrong Paris actor Pierson Fodé.

State Farm teaser livin’ on a prayer

Danny McBride and Keegan-Michael Key rep “Halfway There Insurance” and serenade Hailee Steinfeld in this comedic teaser for State Farm’s ad. The girl group Katseye also makes a brief appearance.

Xfinity’s Wi-Fi saves Jurassic Park?

Xfinity goes the full nostalgia route in its Jurassic Park-themed Super Bowl ad starring Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern and Sam Neill, where Xfinity stops the dino disaster at the park from ever happening.

Melissa McCarthy in an e.l.f. telenovela

Dramatic. Glamorous. High stakes. Melissa McCarthy. What more can you ask for in a gameday ad/telenovela? 

Eos fragrance x Netflix fake-out

In a nod to Netflix’s Is It Cake, this body spray spot from Eos has contestants guessing if the scent is real or if it’s coming from a dessert. 

Uber Eats: Matthew McConaughey annoys Bradley Cooper

Uber Eats is back for this year’s Super Bowl LX ad run, and Eagles fan Bradley Cooper isn’t trying to hear what Matthew McConaughey has to say about… food. Will they come to blows? Check out Jerry Rice, Parker Posey and a few other celeb cameos.

Pepsi nabs a polar bear

We’ve seen polar bears working as mascots for years for one particular cola brand, but Pepsi’s blind taste test for this bear has it feeling disloyal.

Super freaky Svedka Vodka

Vodka brand Svedka has used robots in its ads before, but the company hits a couple of firsts with this commercial, which is soundtracked by Rick James’ Super Freak. It’s the first time a vodka ad has rolled out during the Super Bowl in 30 years, and it’s the first brand to use mostly AI to create its ad.

Pokemon’s big anniversary

Who’s hitting the big 3-0? Pokemon! In honor of the franchise turning 30, the company is dropping a new Super Bowl ad to jumpstart a year-long celebration. Jigglypuff is the only star in this teaser, but don’t be surprised if you catch more Pokemon in Sunday’s full ad. 

Be a hero with Ring 

Ring reminds us that pets are truly family with its tender new ad that showcases its Search Party feature. AI tech to help find and reunite lost pets? Sounds like a win. 

Ken travels solo with Expedia

No, Barbie isn’t tagging along with Ken on his jet-setting travel adventures. But he does have Expedia every step of the way in this gameday spot that may be one of our favorites this year. Go, Ken!

Toyota’s superhero belt

Not all commercials are made to be chaotic or cameo-filled surprises, and Toyota’s spot marries nostalgia, family and charm in this tender ad for the RAV4.

Kinder Bueno brings babies and merciful aliens together

Actor William Fichtner commands a space center in this Kinder Bueno ad with intergalactic travel, astronaut babies and cute little aliens that spare the planet for one reason. 

Chris Hemsworth is creeped out by Alexa Plus AI

If you haven’t been able to picture Chris Hemsworth afraid of anything, here’s your chance to see how he reacts to Alex Plus in his home. Amazon’s AI assistant works hard to prove its worth and trustworthiness in this ad.

Instacart in its disco era

Instacart recruited Ben Stiller and Benson Boone as disco-loving performers for a series of Super Bowl commercials to introduce its new app feature: Pick bananas the way you like them. Look out for these harmonizing brothers to drop another fresh ad during the big game. 

Liquid I.V. and EJae of KPop Demon Hunters 

Singer EJae goes a cappella with a version of Against All Odds in this Liquid I.V. teaser dubbed as a Tiny Vanity Concert. Who can’t relate to singing in front of a mirror? The full ad will go live for game week.   

Squarespace doesn’t want you to lose it

A laptop doesn’t stand a chance against Emma Stone in the Squarespace spot titled Unavailable. Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos team up in this black-and-white ad directed by Lanthimos, where the actor destroys a few laptops over the domain name emmastone.com being unavailable. 

Pringles x Sabrina Carpenter

Sabrina’s new man is constructed entirely out of Pringles in the full Super Bowl spot for the stackable chip brand. He’s tall and mustached, but is he too much of a snack? You’ll have to watch yourself to see if the pop star and her edible lover last.

Budweiser rings in a milestone

The beer brand gets sentimental in celebration of its 150th anniversary this year, and this ad features a Budweiser horse mascot taking flight. (No, that’s not Pegasus.)

Tree Hut 

Tree Hut is known for its sugar scrubs and other body care products, and this goopy ad redefines what a smear campaign can look like. 

Hims on rich people

Opening with a few lines and images about rich people and health care, this Super Bowl ad from Hims — narrated by Common — asks you to consider your own wellness. 

Grubhub teases money… and food

Grubhub has delivered on its promise to “put their mouth where their money is” — and it’s not just about the food. Listen to what George Clooney has to say. 

Fanatics Sportsbook and Kardashian Kurse 

OK, technically Kendall Jenner isn’t a Kardashian, but you get the drift — and the rumors — with this cheeky Super Bowl ad from Fanatics Sportsbook, a sports betting platform.

Oikos powers you up

Kathryn Hahn impressively pushes a trolley uphill in this Oikos ad that also features Derrick Henry.

Michelob Ultra and Kurt Russell’s wisdom

Ante up for Kurt Russell and Lewis Pullman hitting the slopes in the newest Michelob Ultra big game spot, which also features two Olympians: T.J. Oshie and Chloe Kim. 

Nerds hang with Andy Cohen

It might be weird seeing Andy Cohen outside of his Bravo hosting duties and trading banter with Real Housewives of any city, but here he is. Nerds Candy suits up and hits the red carpet with Cohen in this SB spot. 

Bud Light keg roll

In this commercial, wedding attendees go after a Bud Light keg in a slow-motion scramble set to Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You. It’s Post Malone, Shane Gillis and Peyton Manning versus a particularly steep hill.

Universal Orlando Resort wants to change everything

Through the lens of four different visitors (and ads), the theme park is launching a campaign called This Changes Everything to encourage guests to take “transformative” vacations. You can follow one family in this “Lil’ Bro” Super Bowl spot.

Chris Stapleton and Traveller Whiskey make a moment

The singer strikes a chord in this whiskey ad, recalling Stapleton’s past Super Bowl performance when he was tapped to sing the National Anthem. 

Too salty to party with Ritz? 

This spot transports viewers to Ritz Island, but this isn’t a reference to the popular reality franchise, Love Island (as far as we can tell). Jon Hamm and Bowen Yang observe a party — and tantalizing Ritz crackers — from afar. They end up joining the function with a bit of help from Scarlett Johansson.

YouTube TV: Don’t support what’s ‘Meh’

Jason and Kylie Kelce contemplate the worst aspects of a world filled with meh in this ad for YouTube TV.

Lay’s potato tear-jerker

Who knew a potato chip ad could be so softhearted? It’s a family affair when it comes to farming potatoes, and sweet memories line the way to retirement. 

Volkswagen wants you to jump around

You know what? Hell yeah to House of Pain’s Jump Around, no matter the context. In the VW Big Game ad, the auto company beckons you to get out, get up and get around. 

Turbo Tax drama with Adrien Brody

To ease everyone into our least-favorite time of year, Adrien Brody acknowledges that death and taxes are sure things for us, but do they need to be painful? 

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Waymo’s acceleration over the past 18 months is undeniable. The Alphabet-owned self-driving company now operates commercial robotaxi services in six markets, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Austin, Atlanta, and Miami. It has plans to grow its fleet of driverless taxicabs this year to more than a dozen new cities internationally, including London and Tokyo. 

And now it has $16 billion to fuel that expansion. Is it enough? 

Talking to a few industry watchers, the answer kept landing in the squishy “sort of” and “it depends” territory. 

First the bull case. Alphabet is clearly committed to ensuring Waymo’s success; the parent company is, and continues to be, the primary investor. Which means Waymo isn’t exposed like other AV startups that suddenly lost funding after their backers (often legacy automakers) got skittish or pivoted. 

Its ridership and autonomous miles driven stats are also exploding and will likely continue in that trajectory unless it is derailed by regulators. (Waymo provides 400,000 rides every week across six major U.S. metropolitan areas, and in 2025 alone, it more than tripled its annual volume to 15 million rides.)

This doesn’t guarantee success, though, especially if the gauge is set to profitability. Waymo still must solve several problems, including cost and increasing attention from regulators (the company’s chief safety officer just testified in a Senate Commerce hearing). If Waymo wants to simply be the licensor of its AV tech, it will have to move away from being the operator, which means giving up some control. That’s hard with a nascent technology under scrutiny.

And while some of you will fight me on this, it also lacks the in-house manufacturing that Tesla has. Yes, Waymo has automotive partners. But it doesn’t come with the same financial leverage or ability to drive down costs with scale.

Disagree? Send your argument to my email at kirsten.korosec@techcrunch.com.

A little bird

The investors behind the now-defunct EV startup Canoo were always mysterious — in fact, they were only revealed as part of a lawsuit. Six years ago, I received a tip to look into one of them in particular: David Stern. He had connections to Prince Andrew but was otherwise a ghost.

He was on my mind, though, as the Department of Justice started releasing its files on Jeffrey Epstein. My curiosity as to whether he would turn up in the documents was quickly overwhelmed by the fact that he was, in fact, a close business partner of the convicted sex offender. He brought Epstein investment opportunities from around the world, and in particular, pitched him on investing in Faraday Future, Lucid Motors, and Canoo during the go-go days of mobility funding. Read my story on Stern and Epstein’s relationship and how mobility startups were once in the mix.

— Sean O’Kane

Got a tip for us? Email Kirsten Korosec at kirsten.korosec@techcrunch.com or my Signal at kkorosec.07, or email Sean O’Kane at sean.okane@techcrunch.com.

Deals!

Autonomous vehicle technology is about more than just robotaxis — it is a difficult and costly business that only a handful of well-capitalized companies like Tesla, Waymo, and Zoox are pursuing. Many startup founders are applying the AV systems they’ve developed to other use cases, including off-road defense, trucking, forklifts, mining, and construction. Investors, anxious about missing out on the AV party, are jumping into these sectors. 

Bedrock Robotics is the latest example of investor interest. The Silicon Valley autonomous vehicle technology startup, founded by veterans of Waymo and Segment, are developing a self-driving system that can be retrofitted onto construction equipment. And it just raised $270 million in Series B funding co-led by CapitalG and the Valor Atreides AI Fund. Other investors include Xora, 8VC, Eclipse, Emergence Capital, Perry Creek Capital, NVentures (Nvidia’s venture capital arm), Tishman Speyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgian, Incharge Capital, C4 Ventures, and others.

Bedrock raised more than $350 million in a short time (the company was formed in 2024). And while that might not seem like a lot compared to the size of some seed rounds in the AI labs sector, it shows money is flowing into physical AI startups. I expect more deal flow; importantly I expect the startups focused on practical applications of automated driving systems to attract talent — if they can afford them. Bedrock, for instance, hired Vincent Gonguet, who previously led AI safety and alignment at Meta for all Llama models, as its head of evaluation. It also hired John Chu away from Waymo. 

Keep an eye out for my interview with Bedrock Robotics co-founder and CEO Boris Sofman. 

Other deals that got my attention this week …

German electric motor maker Additive Drives raised €25 million ($29.5 million) from Nordic Alpha Partners.

Autonomous underwater vehicles startup Apeiron Labs closed a $9.5 million Series A round led by Dyne Ventures, RA Capital Management Planetary Health, and S2G Investments. Assembly Ventures, Bay Bridge Ventures, and TFX Capital participated.

GoCab, the African mobility fintech startup, raised a $45 million financing round comprising $15 million in equity and $30 million in debt. The equity round was co-led by E3 Capital and Janngo Capital, with participation from KawiSafi Ventures and Cur8 Capital. 

Mitra EV, a commercial EV fleet company in Los Angeles, raised $27 million in financing, including equity funding from lead investor Ultra Capital and a credit facility from S2G Investments.

Overland AI, a Seattle-based developer of self-driving systems designed for military operations, raised $100 million in a round led by 8VC. Other investors included Point72 Ventures, Ascend Venture Capital, Shasta Ventures, Overmatch Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, and StepStone Group.

Plug, the used EV marketplace, raised $20 million in a Series A led by Lightspeed with participation from Galvanize and existing investors Autotech Ventures, Leap Forward Ventures, and Renn Global. 

R3 Robotics, a European startup that wants to automate the disassembly of EV systems at scale, raised €20 million ($23.6 million) in combination of grants and venture funding. The €14 million ($16.5 million) Series A funding was co-led by HG Ventures and Suma Capital. Oetker Collection, the European Innovation Council Fund (EIC Fund), and existing shareholders, including BONVENTURE, FlixFounders, and EIT Urban Mobility also participated. 

Skyryse, an El Segundo, California-based aviation automation startup, has raised more than $300 million in a Series C investment. The round, led by Autopilot Ventures, pushes its valuation to $1.15 billion. Other investors include Fidelity Management & Research Company, ArrowMark Partners, Atreides Management LP, BAM Elevate, Baron Capital Group, Durable Capital Partners, Positive Sum, Qatar Investment Authority, RCM Private Markets Fund managed by Rokos Capital Management, and Woodline Partners.

Notable reads and other tidbits

China has banned concealed electronically actuated door handles popularized by Tesla. The ruling, published by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, says all new cars sold in the country must have mechanical releases on their door handles by January 1, 2027. There is chatter that Europe could soon follow. 

Uber continues to make moves designed to make it competitive in the autonomous vehicle sector. The company has promoted Balaji Krishnamurthy, its VP of strategic finance and investor relations, to be its CFO. This may not seem connected to AVs, but it is. Krishnamurthy actively promotes the company’s autonomous ride-hailing partnerships and has a board seat at AV company Waabi. During the company’s Q4 call, he talked about AVs, saying the company would invest capital in its AV software partners, work with AV makers by investing equity or via offtake agreements, and “support our AV infrastructure partners.”

Meanwhile, a high-profile lawsuit against Uber has delivered a mixed verdict for the ride-hailing company, which was sued after a woman alleged she was raped by her Uber driver in November 2023. A jury determined Uber was liable as an apparent agent of the driver and awarded $8.5 million to the plaintiff. The jury rejected claims that Uber was liable for negligence or design defects and declined to award punitive damages. An Uber spokesperson, who emailed TechCrunch a statement, said the “verdict affirms that Uber acted responsibly and has invested meaningfully in rider safety. We will continue to put safety at the heart of everything we do.” Uber plans to appeal the decision. 

One more thing …

Last week in our newsletter, we did a poll asking what the name or ticker of Elon Musk’s combined supercompany should be. Thanks to those who emailed their suggestions, many of which had space themes, like Galactic X (great one). As for the poll, the majority picked plain ol’ X. 

That makes sense, considering Musk has often talked, and posted, about X, the everything app. About 50% voted for X, while 20.7% picked ELON, 17.2% selected SpaceAI, and 12.1% chose K2, a reference to one of the corporate entities created in January. 

My pick? I think it will ultimately be X, and the company will include more than just SpaceX and xAI.

To participate in our polls, sign up for our newsletter!

To be a viable alternative to our GADA Tudor, the value collection has to include a travel-time watch. We looked at Farer’s 36-mm Lander IV, with its preppy color scheme and distinctive character, but ultimately we went for another cult favorite from the affordable end of the Swatch Group stable.

The Mido Ocean Star Decompression Worldtimer costs $5 less than the Farer, at $1,490, and brings its own eye-catching dial to the table, as well as a 200-meter water resistance rating and a version of the same 80-hour movement as in the Hamilton. Perhaps the clincher was the world-time bezel, which shouldn’t be confused with a true mechanical world-time complication, but does give at-a-glance timekeeping around the world.

So far we’ve spent $3,905, which means we still have $645 burning a hole in our pocket. The obvious gap in this collection is a chronograph of some kind. It would give us the decisive edge over the Black Bay, but for this budget most mechanical chronographs are out of reach. We could buy a MoonSwatch—in fact, at $285 we could buy two and have enough left for the Uber home—but we’re on our mission to find something more substantial, more interesting, and (let’s face it) more likely to stand the test of time.

And that something is the Brew Super Metric ($475), a hybrid mecha-quartz chrono from a New York microbrand with more personality than every MoonSwatch put together. The unashamedly loud retro styling isn’t for everyone, but we think that the cushion-shaped case and steel bracelet help broaden our stylistic options, and although it’s not a pedigree mechanical chronograph, it costs less than $500 while looking and feeling like no one’s idea of a compromise.

That brings the challengers to a grand total of $4,380, which means we’d be able to buy a six-watch case to keep our collection in (of course it’s got space for one more …) and maybe even a couple of spare straps.

There’s no doubt the Tudor is in a different league, but could a crack squad of specialists tempt you to part with $4,550? Or will the lure of singular luxe prove too tempting? Over to you. It’s decision time.

Amazon MGM just released the final trailer for its upcoming film starring Ryan Gosling, Project Hail Mary, and it provides our first good look at his five-legged alien co-star, Rocky. The movie adapts a 2021 Andy Weir (The Martian) novel of the same name, and follows Dr. Ryland Grace, a scientist who wakes up on a spacecraft far from Earth with no recollection of how he got there or why, only to discover he’s on a seemingly impossible mission to stop an extinction event.

If you’ve read the book, you already know we’re in for an emotional rollercoaster with this one, and the latest trailer aptly tugs at our heartstrings with a glimpse of the friendship that grows between Grace and an alien he meets after waking up — and the incredibly high stakes they’re facing. The movie will be released nationwide on March 20, but Amazon announced alongside this trailer that it’ll be offering tickets for early screenings in premium formats including IMAX, Dolby Cinema, 4DX and 70MM to Prime members. Those screenings will begin on March 16, and tickets go on sale February 20 through Fandango.

When a startup announced plans last fall to recreate lost footage from Orson Welles’ classic film “The Magnificent Ambersons” using generative AI, I was skeptical. More than that, I was baffled why anyone would spend time and money on something that seemed guaranteed to outrage cinephiles while offering negligible commercial value.

This week, an in-depth profile by the New Yorker’s Michael Schulman provides more details about the project. If nothing else, it helps explain why the startup Fable and its founder Edward Saatchi are pursuing it: It seems to come from a genuine love of Welles and his work.

Saatchi (whose father was a founder of advertising firm Saatchi & Saatchi) recalled a childhood of watching films in a private screening room with his “movie mad” parents. He said he first saw “Ambersons” when he was twelve.

The profile also explains why “Ambersons,” while much less famous than Welles’ first film “Citizen Kane,” remains so tantalizing — Welles himself claimed it was a “much better picture” than “Kane,” but after a disastrous preview screening, the studio cut 43 minutes from the film, added an abrupt and unconvincing happy ending, and eventually destroyed the excised footage to make space in its vaults.

“To me, this is the holy grail of lost cinema,” Saatchi said. “It just seemed intuitively that there would be some way to undo what had happened.”

Saatchi is only the latest Welles devotee to dream of recreating the lost footage. In fact, Fable is working with filmmaker Brian Rose, who already spent years trying to achieve the same thing with animated scenes based on the movie’s script and photographs, and on Welles’ notes. (Rose said that after he screened the results for friends and family, “a lot of them were scratching their heads.”)

So while Fable is using more advanced technology — filming scenes in live action, then eventually overlaying them with digital recreations of the original actors and their voices — this project is best understood as a slicker, better-funded version of Rose’s work. It’s a fan’s attempt to glimpse Welles’ vision.

Notably, while the New Yorker article includes a few clips of Rose’s animations, as well as images of Fable’s AI actors, there’s no footage showing the results of Fable’s live action-AI hybrid.

By the company’s own admission, there are significant challenges, whether that’s fixing obvious blunders like a two-headed version of the actor Joseph Cotten, or the more subjective task of recreating the complex beauty of the film’s cinematography. (Saatchi even described a “happiness” problem, with the AI tending to make the film’s women look inappropriately happy.)

As for whether this footage will ever be released to the public, Saatchi admitted it was “a total mistake” not to speak to Welles’ estate before his announcement. Since then, he has reportedly been working to win over both the estate and Warner Bros., which owns the rights to the film. Welles’ daughter Beatrice told Schulman that while she remains “skeptical,” she now believes “they are going into this project with enormous respect toward my father and this beautiful movie.”

The actor and biographer Simon Callow — who’s currently writing the fourth book in his multi-volume Welles biography — has also agreed to advise the project, which he described as a “great idea.” (Callow is a family friend of the Saatchis.)

But not everyone has been convinced. Melissa Galt said her mother, the actress Anne Baxter, would “not have agreed with that at all.”

“It’s not the truth,” Galt said. “It’s a creation of someone else’s truth. But it’s not the original, and she was a purist.”

And while I’ve become more sympathetic to Saatchi’s aims, I still agree with Galt: At its best, this project will only result in a novelty, a dream of what the movie might have been.

In fact, Galt’s description of her mother’s position that “once the movie was done, it was done,” reminded me of a recent essay in which the writer Aaron Bady compared AI to the vampires in “Sinners.” Bady argued that when it comes to art, both vampires and AI will always come up short, because “what makes art possible” is a knowledge of mortality and limitations.

“There is no work of art without an ending, without the point at which the work ends (even if the world continues),” he wrote, adding, “Without death, without loss, and without the space between my body and yours, separating my memories from yours, we cannot make art or desire or feeling.”

In that light, Saatchi’s insistence that there must be “some way to undo what had happened” feels, if not outright vampiric, then at least a little childish in its unwillingness to accept that some losses are permanent. It may not, perhaps, be all that different from a startup founder claiming they can make grief obsolete — or a studio executive insisting that “The Magnificent Ambersons” needed a happy ending.