What's news: THR digs into the data to see if the Oscars' inclusion push is working, the Super Bowl drew 100 million viewers, what does the future hold for Disney's 20th Century? Google reveals YouTube's $18 billion business, Parasite feasts on younger moviegoers, and buyers were out in force at Sundance. Plus: Iowa Caucus chaos, and Peter Roth's new deal at Warner Bros. --Alex Weprin

 Inside The Oscars' Diversity Push

►Is the Oscars' inclusion push working? Breaking down the surprising Academy numbers. In 2016, #OscarsSoWhite shamed AMPAS into remaking its ranks to better reflect a global audience. With another year of nominees lacking in representation, an exclusive THR analysis of membership data reveals exactly what has been achieved (and what hasn’t).

--In 2016 the Academy launched its A2020 initiative, committing to doubling the number of members of color and doubling the number of women in its ranks by the end of this year. The group says it has surpassed this for members of color — that the Academy is now 16 percent people of color, up from 8 percent in 2015. And when the 2020 class of members is invited this spring, the organization expects to meet its aim for female members.

--In the spring, the Academy will release an in-depth report on its inclusion progress and unveil some new initiatives, including asking its members to consider what, exactly, quality means to them.

"We'll be having a lot of conversations with our members about what excellence in art means," says Lorenza Muñoz, the Academy's head of member relations and awards. "We have to put into place more mechanisms for Academy members to consider all types of movies for their achievement. There should be a willingness to broaden the aperture." The story, and the data.

►Sundance deals: buyers bullish as docs flex their muscles. Never mind those forecasts for a Sundance market cool-down. Despite mediocre box office for a handful of 2019's big-ticket acquisitions, buyers came out in force this year. As the festival wrapped, five films had well eclipsed the eight-figure mark, Tatiana Siegel reports. The story.

+Russell Simmons accuser doc On the Record lands at HBO Max. The news of the pickup comes weeks after executive producer Oprah Winfrey and distributor AppleTV+ suddenly withdrew their involvement. The details.



^Super Bowl ratings: The Super Bowl scored its first ratings increase in five years, with just under 100 million viewers on average watching Fox's broadcast Sunday. The game drew an average of 99.9 million viewers and a 41.7 household ratings, both slight upticks from CBS' broadcast of Super Bowl LIII in 2019 (98.2 million, 41.1). Per Fox Sports, a Spanish-language simulcast on Fox Deportes and streaming on Fox, NFL and Verizon platforms boosted the average viewership to 102 million, a very small increase on last year's multiplatform audience of 101.7 million.

+Also: The halftime show, featuring Jennifer Lopez and Shakira, averaged 103 million viewers. President Trump's pre-game interview with Sean Hannity averaged 10.3 million viewers. The special post-game edition of The Masked Singer averaged 23.7 million viewers. The Super Bowl numbers.

+One crazy bonus fact, via Rick Porter: "In Kansas City, the game averaged a massive 55.7 household rating and 89 share. Viewership there peaked in the fourth quarter at 62.6/97 — meaning that 97 percent of all Nielsen-measured TV viewing happening in Kansas City at that time was of the Super Bowl."

+$435 million: That is how much money advertisers paid Fox for commercials during th Super Bowl, according to an estimate from Kantar Media. Including pre and post-game coverage, Fox likely took in more than $500 million in ad revenue from the big game.

 The Future Of 20th Century

►20th Century Studios' diminished future: "I don't think the label means anything anymore." As Emma Watts exits, Disney’s former Fox unit will now be the home to some adult dramas and prebranded remakes, plus Hulu or Disney+ titles and four Avatar sequels, Rebecca Keegan and Pamela McClintock report. However, the unit will need to forge its own identity in the new reporting structure.

Quote: "Disney's other production silos, like Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar, Walt Disney Animation and Searchlight, have clear identities, and the company's live-action studio, under the firm control of Sean Bailey, has found its billion-dollar niche remaking Disney's animated films, like The Lion King and March's Mulan. The answer to what makes something a 20th Century Studios film is murkier." The story.

In business news...

►YouTube reveals ad revenue for first time: $15.1 billion in 2019. YouTube has seen enormous growth, according to the newly-released numbers. In fiscal 2017, YouTube generated $8.15 billion in ad revenue, followed by $11.15 billion fiscal 2018. In other words, YouTube's ad revenue has nearly doubled over the past two years. The company also revealed that its YouTube TV service now has more than two million subscribers.

+Context: YouTube's total revenue in 2019, including subscriptions, topped $18 billion. That is not far behind Netflix, which topped $20 billion, and far more than companies like Fox, or Discovery Inc. YouTube's video advertising business appears to be in a league all its own. The story.

+Sony's film unit posts $51 million quarterly profit, down 50 percent. Jumanji: The Next Level, which earned more than $750 million globally, contributed to profits, though its December release dates means around a third of that will be included in the current quarter's figures. Charlie's Angels severely underperformed, taking just over $70 million at the global box office, hitting the division's bottom line. The surprise success of Venom boosted results for the same period the previous year. More.

+SiriusXM adds 355,000 satellite radio, loses 88,000 Pandora subscribers. It ended 2019 with more than 34.9 million subscribers, including nearly 30.0 million self-pay subscribers. More.



^Oscars box office: Parasite feasts on younger moviegoers. Through Feb. 2, the genre-bending thriller's domestic gross rested at $33.2 million, one of the best showings of all time for a foreign-language film. When Parasite first opened in select theaters in October, it scored a massive per-location average of $131,000 — the best showing of 2019. Still, even the most seasoned box office analysts said that the South Korean film would top out at no more than $20 million in the U.S. The story.

Elsewhere in film...

--China Releases for Dolittle, 1917, Jojo Rabbit canceled amid coronavirus crisis.

--Rocky Johnson biopic filmmakers remember Dwayne Johnson's father.

--Rise of Skywalker sound editors reveal secrets behind Star Wars and Baby Yoda's voice.

--How 1917 increased the sense of threat with "sound intensity."

►Disney to release film version of Hamilton stage performance with original Broadway cast. Following what is believed to have been a long period of competitive negotiations (Disney ultimately paid $75 million), the studio has won the worldwide distribution rights to the film of the original staged performance of the Tony-winning musical. The film will be released in North America on Oct. 15, 2021. The story.

+Nicolas Cage's upcoming meta drama in which he will play himself has set a release date. Lionsgate will open The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent on March 19, 2021, the studio said Monday. More.

►Mayans MC showrunner inks Fox 21 overall deal. Elgin James is tightening his relationship with Fox 21 Television Studios. James has signed an overall deal with the Disney Television Studios unit, which produces Mayans MC with FX Productions. The multi-year pact encompasses development, writing and directing for TV and streaming projects. More.

►Peter Roth extends contract, promoted to chairman of Warner Bros. TV Group. The new role reports to Warner Bros. chair and CEO Ann Sarnoff. The extension will continue Roth's 21-year tenure at the studio. Roth most recently served as president and chief content officer of WBTVG, a role he held since 2013. The promotion and deal extension puts to rest, at least temporarily, rumors that Roth's tenure at the indie studio would be coming to an end as the media giant continues to restructure its executive ranks to better position itself for the streaming era. The story.

Elsewhere in TV...

--Review: Daniel Fienberg reviews Netflix's Locke & Key...  He also reviews Spectrum Originals' Manhunt: Deadly Games.

--Ratings: ESPN drew a big audience Friday night for the Los Angeles Lakers' first game since the death of retired superstar Kobe Bryant. National coverage of the game, including a tribute to Bryant from current Lakers star LeBron James, averaged 4.41 million viewers, the fourth-largest audience for an NBA game this season. 

--Netflix has canceled the ice skating drama Spinning Out after one season.

--Toni Collette will star in thriller Pieces of Her at Netflix.

 Caucus Chaos

►Iowa Caucus tech meltdown causes cable news chaos. The broadcast and cable news networks spent months building up to Monday's caucus, but when tech problems pushed the results to today (they are yet to be released as of writing), they had to scramble and improvise. In the end, nearly every candidate delivered some version of a victory speech before the night's end. 

+In other political news: President Trump excluded CNN from the White House's traditional pre-State of the Union news anchor lunch. Wolf Blitzer had attended the lunch 20 years in a row.

The Harvey Weinstein trial: On Monday morning, Harvey Weinstein’s top lawyer sought to upend the testimony of Jessica Mann, who told the jury on Friday that the former movie mogul raped her twice in 2013, when they were in a relationship. “You knew that your words were a problem in your testimony,” Rotunno told Mann. “You sent him emails telling him how wonderful he was. You sent him emails thanking him. You sent him emails asking for things.” Jeremy Barr has the report from the courtroom.

+Lisa Bloom, David Boies ask court to dismiss Rose McGowan's racketeering lawsuit. The suit claims they and other Harvey Weinstein "fixers" violated racketeering laws in an effort to make sure she didn't include her claim that the producer raped her in her memoir Brave. The actress in October sued Weinstein, Boies, Bloom and private intelligence agency Black Cube for allegedly engaging in a "diabolical and illegal" effort to silence her. More.

+Also: Fox News is again asking a New York federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the network by the parents of murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich after an appeals court revived the dispute last fall... Pharrell Williams defends GQ interview in court. The hit producer denies committing perjury during the "Blurred Lines" case.

+And: An appeals court gave Drake a "fair use" win in a sampling case... Danny Masterson wants an L.A. judge to toss a complaint from his ex-girlfriends that he argues is filled with "paranoid delusions" and only targets him to get media attention... One person was killed and numerous others injured Monday morning when a gunman opened fire on a Greyhound bus traveling from Los Angeles to the Bay Area...

Revolving door: Miley Cyrus has signed with WME worldwide in all areas... IMG Models has signed Parris Goebel, the choreographer behind Jennifer Lopez and Shakira's Super Bowl LIV halftime show... Leopold Hughes and Nikos Maramigios have been named producers at T-Street, the indie studio run by Knives Out filmmaker Rian Johnson and partner Ram Bergman... The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the six film professionals who will join jury president Jeremy Irons in picking the winners of this year's competition...

►Rush Limbaugh reveals advanced lung cancer diagnosis. The talk-show host, considered one of the most influential conservatives in the media for three decades, said he sought help from doctors after experiencing shortness of breath. Limbaugh gave no indication his life was in danger and, in fact, said he’d miss his show on Tuesday and Wednesday but planned to return on Thursday, though a tweet from his producer, Bo Snerdley, was a bit more dire. More.

►"Broadway in Hollywood" brings Moulin Rouge!, The Cher Show to L.A. Tootsie, Oklahoma!, Aida, Pretty Woman: The Musical and The Lion King will all additionally grace the Dolby Theatre and Hollywood Pantages Theatre stages between 2020 and 2021. More.

►Kobe memorial removed: A massive memorial created by the public outside Staples Center after the death of former Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant was being dismantled Monday, with an official saying some of the items would go to Bryant's widow and other family members. More.



^Book excerpt: How writer Robert Towne crafted Chinatown for Jack Nicholson. The Big Goodbye author Sam Wasson, whose history of the 1974 film goes on sale Tuesday, previously penned the biography of Bob Fosse that inspired the FX series Fosse/Verdon. The excerpt.

Awards Chatter podcast: In the latest episode, Cynthia Erivo speaks with Scott Feinberg about how she wound up at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, her life-changing experience with the musical The Color Purple and what drew her to playing Harriet Tubman. Listen.

+Also: Bonnie Arnold reflects on breaking into the biz in her native Georgia, unexpectedly winding up working in animation and devoting a decade to DreamWorks Animation's blockbuster trilogy in another episode of the podcast. Listen.

►The Hollywood Reporter In Studio: Antonio Banderas received his first-ever Academy Award nomination for lead actor, thanks to his portrayal of Salvador Mallo in Pedro Almodóvar's Spanish-language film Pain and Glory. The actor spoke to THR In Studio about the nomination, saying, "I mean, it's beautiful, the nomination itself, but just in the way that I got here and the circumstances that are surrounding this nomination are all beautiful. It's almost a dream." Watch.

What else we're reading...

--"How does Fox news cover the Democratic field? With Peter Doocy, son of morning host Steve Doocy" [Washington Post]

--"Quibi knows you have no idea what Quibi is" [Quartz]

--"Who's afraid of Gwyneth Paltrow and Goop?" [NY Times]

--"Disney strategy for Fox assets comes into focus as executives quit" [WSJ]

Today's birthdays: Alice Cooper, 72, Oscar De La Hoya, 47, Dan Quayle, 73, Cam'ron, 44, Natalie Imbruglia, 45.