Hasta La Creative!

“Fast & Furious 6”’ easily beat out its direct opening-weekend competition, “The Hangover Part III,” to make a well attended Memorial Day weekend.

Given the more generous subsidies offered in other states and countries, major studios including NBCUniversal, Paramount and Disney all have large-scale, long-term expansion plans.

Hollywood, increasingly reliant on big-budget spectacles that make hundreds of millions of dollars, may be headed over a blockbuster cliff.

NBC and Fox are the first of the big broadcast networks to present their coming schedules.

The live stream, which will be available only to cable and satellite subscribers, is the first time that any major broadcaster has turned on such a technology.

The box numbers from Thursday’s late night screenings indicate a first weekend that could be the most successful in Baz Luhrmann’s directing career.

Citing strength in almost all its business units, the media giant reported $1.51 billion in profit, a 32 percent increase over a year earlier.

Companies promoting their offerings for advertisers this week are stressing authentic user-generated videos or professional, trustworthy content.

Internet companies like Hulu, AOL and Yahoo are holding presentations this week about their plans for original programming.

Two war horses of the genre, “All My Children” and “One Life to Live,” will have their Internet premieres at 5 a.m. Monday on Hulu and iTunes.