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Britain's Got Talent came to an end tonight (May 31) as one lucky winner claimed a spot at this year's Royal Variety Performance.

Jules O'Dwyer and Matisse topped the viewer vote and were duly named Britain's Got Talent 2015 champions.

We round up the reaction on social media to tonight's Britain's Got Talent live final below.

Firstly, there was a lot of moaning about the number of adverts during the show:

Britain's Got Adverts #BGTfinal

— Sean Goldsmith (@SeanGoldsmith2) May 31, 2015

I've just voted for the @plusnet advert. Not got the hang of this yet. #BGTfinal

— John Archer (@TheArchini) May 31, 2015

I don't normally watch @Bgt and these adverts after every act are reminding me why. So annoying. #BGTfinal

— Chris Jay Lewis (@c_j_lewis) May 31, 2015

Two and a half hours of #BGTFinal tonight, that's 43 minutes of the show and 107 minutes of adverts

— Katie Weasel (@KatieWeasel) May 31, 2015

There was a mixed reaction to Udi's performance...

Photo:.Steve Carell, Alan Arkin and the .drunken sailor. dove.

Much like the magicians in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, VFX supervisor Bruce Jones likes creating big reactions. And, also like a magician, Jones appreciates that even simple and small effects can provoke great responses . providing they are believable.. "Magicians usually use a slight of hand to pull off their tricks, which involves a magician getting somebody to focus on a certain area, before using a split second to distract the audience to perform the trick," says Jones. "So in Wonderstone, we made sure that the actors incorporated these same movements. However, in some cases, we exaggerated them, so that the 'flourish' sold the trick, making them look real and captured in camera, although the tricks were actually VFX." One of Jones's favourite effects in the movie involved an imploding building, which happens just after Steve Carell has left a cab...

This week: Halle Berry goes above and beyond the call of duty as a 911 operator trying to save a kidnapped teenage girl from a serial killer in the thriller "The Call."

Also new this week is Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi and Jim Carrey in the Vegas magician comedy "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone," David Duchovny and Ed Harris in "Phantom" and the Blu-ray debut of The Beatles' "Help!"

'The Call'

Box Office: $52 million

Rotten Tomatoes: 41% Rotten

Storyline: Halle Berry plays Jordan Turner, a veteran 911 operator who gets an emergency call from a teenage girl (Abigail Breslin) being abducted. Jordan must confront a killer (Michael Eklund) from her past in order to save the girl's life in this thriller directed by Brad Anderson ("The Machinist").

Extras!: Both the DVD and Blu-ray contain a commentary track and an extensive making-of feature. The Blu-ray adds an alternate ending, deleted and extended scenes,...

Middle-aged punks. Greying mohawks. Back in 1998 writer-director James Merendino mined his own rebellious youth to created the dramedy Slc Punk. The film about two 1980s punks nonconforming in conservative Salt Lake City earned a coveted spot on the Sundance Film Festival's opening night and went on to find a devoted fan base. Since then, Merendino has gone on to make a handful of movies you've probably never heard of like a crime comedy called Magicians and a horror flick titled Death Club. But he's clawing his way back to relevance by returning to his greatest success for a sequel. Film School Rejects reports Merendino is looking to bring much of the cast from Slc Punk back together for Punk's Dead, a sequel that would pick up with the grown punks in 2003. In his announcement, Meredino explains: .I made Slc Punk when I was a kid, and accordingly, the story is...

Time for a twisted take on a very special subset of the business they call show (which is like no business I know). Yup it’s another flick about (exploding hand gesture)…magic! Very hot on the heels of last week’s box office behemoth Oz: The Great And Powerful, comes another story of an illusionist. This is a more modern and comic take on this entertainment staple that certainly pre-dates the wagons and caravans of Oz. Magicians soon went from those carnival side shows and became sensations of live theatre with Harry Houdini, perhaps achieving the greatest fame (folks still gather every Halloween awaiting his return from the great beyond). They even inspired a long-running newspaper comic strip, Phil Davis and Lee Falk’s “Mandrake the Magician”. When television began in the late 1940′s they immediately snapped up these performers for their visual appeal. A few hosted their own...

After premiering last week at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone," a high-concept magician movie starring Steve Carell and Jim Carrey, is now appearing (as if by magic!) nationwide. The story follows an aged performer (Carell) who ditches his partner (Steve Buscemi) and attempts to recapture his mojo while fending off the competition in the form of a swarthy "street magician" (Carrey) whose shtick is more "Jackass" than "The Prestige." But does the considerable comedic weight of Carrel, Buscemi, and Carrey (not to mention a stellar supporting cast that includes James Gandolfini, Alan Arkin, and Olivia Wilde) equal an amazing feat of cinematic magic, or is it more or less like seeing the fake finger a magician stuffs the handkerchief into? 1. This Is Steve Carell's "Anchorman" Carell's Burt Wonderstone starts off as a latchkey kid enchanted by the transformative power of magic,...

Cult indie filmmaker Lisa Hammer (Pox, The Venture Brothers) has a new feature film! The new James Merendino/Lisa Hammer feature The Invisible Life Of Thomas Lynch is screening at the Cmj Film Festival this Thursday in NYC!

The Invisible Life of Thomas Lynch is a dark comedy about a lonely smalltime hit man. Shot documentary style, the film reveals a pathetically empty and misguided man and the callousness of the film makers who just want to get the shots, unmoved by torture and murder. The contradiction between personal life and job, and the apathy of the people making the documentary reflects satirically the dispassion of the media. Directed by James Merendino (Slc Punk, Magicians) and Lisa Hammer (The Venture Brothers, Mors Syphilitica) Starring: Steve Stanulis as Thomas Lynch, James Merendino as himself, Lisa Hammer as herself, Levi Wilson as himself, Andrew Langton as Frank Ritchie, Christiane Seidel as Tina,...