Things sure do move fast in the junk food ... er, Quick Service and Fast Casual restaurant biz. Adweek's video columnist, Lauren Reeves, who launched her new "Mad Woman" series last month with an expos of lingerie PSAs, can hardly keep up with the developments, in fact. Just as this week's episode surveys "the superinformative ads all the fast food companies are making" about their "many super healthy menu options," there's news breaking left and right.

"A Telekinetic Surprise in a Coffee Shop" is hardly the most titillating title for a video but Sony Picture's 2:23 YouTube promotion for the forthcoming remake of "Carrie" has garnered nearly 15 million views since its release on Monday.

Juicy Couture, whose colorful velour tracksuits with JUICY across the posterior enjoyed celebrity status once upon a time a few fashion cycles ago, was sold for $195 million yesterday to Authentic Brands Group by Fifth & Pacific, which had acquired the Juicy label in 2003 and "sent it sailing with ritzy retail shops and fancy advertisements in glossy fashion magazines," as Deborah Belgum reports in Apparel News.

Defying recent trends that have pulled both high-budget blockbuster movies and 3-D offerings back to earth, Alfonso Cuaron's nail-biting space adventure with just two actors - Sandra Bullock and George Clooney - had a flawless launch over the weekend and seems poised to remain in orbit for some time.

Elon Musk is facing a Steve Jobs moment in the wake of a literal product meltdown that resulted in headlines yesterday such as this in USA Today: "Tesla stock burned by car fire video, downgrade."

Catering to our anti-Zen taste for mindless eating, KFC has launched Go Cup, a plastic container that holds five varieties of munchable delectables and will purportedly fit snugly within 83% of the cup holders nested in the American Consumer's automobile.

As its better-known rivals tout reduced-fat french fries and Happy Meals with milk in an effort to woo today's health-conscious consumers, the home of the 1,300-calorie, 2/3-pound Monster Burger is doing it the old-fashioned way. Hardee's plans to open about 200 new restaurants in the Northeast over the next five years, starting in New York and New Jersey and then expanding into Connecticut and Massachusetts.

With the grinch diverted by budgetary shenanigans in the nation's capital yesterday, both Amazon and Wal-Mart made some news that bodes well for holiday season sales, at least online.

Coca-Cola officially has lost a little bit of its fizz with both Apple and Google besting it for the first time as the world's most valuable brand in the annual rankings by Interbrand, which has become quite the model of smart PR itself.

"Would you like some milk and kiwi on a stick with that?"