What's news: Streaming services dominate the Super Bowl, but Netflix sat the big game out. The halftime show, the movie trailers, and all the rest of the ads. Former National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard seeks a Hollywood reboot, the Iowa Caucus is today and TV news outlets are pumped up, Bad Boys For Life once again won the box office. Plus: The BAFTAs, the WGA Awards, Sundance winners and Oscars week. --Alex Weprin

 Super Bowl Storylines

The Kansas City Chiefs, led by quarterback Patrick Mahomes, defeated the San Francisco 49ers 31-20 in the Super Bowl yesterday. It was the Chiefs first championship title in 50 years, and it was an exciting comeback, with the Chiefs scoring three touchdowns in the final quarter. Of course, the Super Bowl is also one of the biggest events in entertainment...

►The streaming Super Bowl. Six different streaming services bought commercial time during the big game. Quibi used its ad to introduce itself to consumers after a long ramp-up, Disney+ used its ad to introduce its slate of new Marvel shows (more below), Hulu used Tom Brady to juke viewers, Fox Nation reintroduced itself as an entertainment service "celebrating America," YouTube promoted its YouTube TV service, and Amazon teased drama Hunters. YouTube sponsored the pregame show, while Amazon sponsored the postgame show.

+There was one mighty big streamer missing from the game: Netflix. After buying ads in the game for the past three years, streaming's subscription leader sat this year out. Why? It may be because it doesn't have any shows or movies debuting in the next month or so that it found worthy to promote. Or it could be a pure business decision: with most of its growth coming from the international segment and the U.S. slowing, why spend $5 million on one ad for the U.S. market when it could be redeployed elsewhere?

+Disney+'s MCU: Disney used its 30-second spot to offer brief glimpses of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, WandaVision and Loki, the first two of which are set to premiere on Disney+ this year. Loki, starring Tom Hiddleston as the Asgardian character he's played for the better part of the decade, is due in 2021. The details.

+The movie trailers: While fewer studios participated in this year' game than in years past, the Super Bowl once again served as a launching pad for new movie trailers... Top Gun: Maverick... Mulan...Black Widow... No Time To Die... Minions: The Rise of Gru... F9...

+The other ads: Bill Murray reprised his role as Phil Connors from Groundhog Day for a Jeep ad... Martin Scorsese and Jonah Hill appeared in an ad for Coca-Cola Energy... Characters and elements from Men in Black, Star Wars, Star Trek and other films appeared in an ad for WalMart... See all the ads, including the likes of Chris Evans, Ellen DeGeneres, Jimmy Fallon, John Cena, Jennifer Lopez, Sylvster Stallone, Chris Rock, John Legend, Chrissy Teigen. and many more, here.



^The halftime show: Jennifer Lopez and Shakira took the stage at Miami's Hard Rock Stadium on Sunday night to deliver a highly anticipated halftime show performance at the game. Despite the glamorous costumes, hard-hitting choreography and dazzling pyrotechnics, one moment that immediately stood out in the Pepsi-presented show was a touching tribute to Kobe Bryant. You can watch it here.

+Critic's notebook: Jennifer Lopez and Shakira's Super Bowl halftime exorcised Maroon 5 demons. "That halftime show was just pure fun, unless you want to acknowledge that it's righteously and wonderfully political for two Latinx singers to have shared and dominated the stage on TV's biggest night, especially when one of them sang — or 'sang' — the chorus of Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the U.S.A.' while draped in a magnificent Puerto Rican flag boa/robe," Daniel Fienberg writes. More.

+Also: Fans praised Jennifer Lopez and Shakira for their powerful but subtle statements on Puerto Rico and U.S. immigration policy... Stylists Rob Zangardi and Mariel Haenn reveal all the details behind the 213 Versace costumes and 143 pairs of shoes created for J.Lo and 130 dancers...

+And finally: Some of the best celebrity social media posts from the game included Alex Rodriguez after the halftime show, Jeff Bezos meeting Lizzo, and Martha Stewart stumbling upon nachos... Fox debuted the first episode of season three of The Masked Singer in the coveted post-Super Bowl timeslot. The first celebrity knocked out was a shocker. More.

 Former 'Enquirer' Editor Goes Hollywood

►Dylan Howard’s Hollywood reboot: Why are so many A-listers working with a tabloid henchman? The former National Enquirer editor has been a key player in the era's most sordid scandals, from Trump's hush-money payments to Harvey Weinstein’s Catch and Kill tactics to Jeff Bezos' extortion claims. Now he’s repositioning himself as a showbiz player, developing multiple projects in the white-hot true-crime arena, Gay Baum reports.

Quote: "One might think Howard's involvement in multiple scandals would make him a pariah in Hollywood and the mainstream media. Legal experts have even speculated that the Bezos scheme might run afoul of extortion statutes. Or, even still, that sexual harassment allegations made against him at AMI and Celebuzz would put him on ice, as have claims against many other men in the #MeToo era. But Howard's and AMI's various scandals seem to have had little effect on his budding entertainment career." The story.

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►"We're ready to go": Iowa Caucus signals 2020 kick-off for television news networks. After months of campaign events, polls, debates and candidate interviews, the first votes of the 2020 presidential election will finally be cast tonight, Jeremy Barr reports. "It's incredibly exciting," says Rashida Jones, svp, specials, for NBC News and MSNBC. "We've been planning for this for over a year. I have goosebumps thinking about it. It's history, and we get to be in the front row of it." The story.

The BAFTAs were held in London and the WGA Awards were held in Los Angeles and New York over the weekend, setting the stage for next Sunday's Oscars ceremony...

The BAFTA Awards: Sam Mendes' WWI epic 1917 dominated the 2020 BAFTA awards on Sunday night. The film added to its growing haul of honors in the U.S. with seven awards on home soil, including best film, best director and best cinematography at the Royal Albert Hall. Elsewhere, Joker came away with three wins, including best actor for Joaquin Phoenix and the British Academy's inaugural casting award. 

--Renee Zellweger won best actress for Judy. Meanwhile, Brad Pitt won best supporting actor for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Laura Dern best supporting actress for Marriage Story, those films only wins on the night. The full list of winners.

+Joaquin Phoenix, Rebel Wilson speak out on lack of diversity. The stars and even Prince William were among those to address the subject following the #BAFTAsSoWhite controversy.

Quote: “I feel conflicted because so many of my fellow actors that are deserving don’t have that same privilege. I think we send a very clear message to people of color that you’re not welcome here,” Phoenix said. “I don’t think anybody wants a handout or preferential treatment, people just want to be acknowledged, appreciated and respected for their work. This is not a self-righteous condemnation. I’m part of the problem." The story.

►The WGA Awards: The 72nd annual Writers Guild Awards held their ceremonies Saturday evening at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, hosted by Ana Gasteyer, and the Edison Ballroom in New York, hosted by John Fugelsang. Best original screenplay went to Parasite, beating out 1917, Booksmart, Knives Out and Marriage Story, and Jojo Rabbit won adapted screenplay over A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, The Irishman, Joker and Little Women. Parasite's Bong Joon Ho and Jojo Rabbit's Taika Waititi were both at the New York ceremony. The full list of winners.

+Also: The Norwegian drama Beware of Children has won the top prize for Best Nordic Film at this year's Göteborg Film Festival... The most surprising cameo in this year's awards season is donuts...

►Sundance's new festival director: The Sundance Institute has named Tabitha Jackson as the new director of the Sundance Film Festival. Jackson will replace outgoing director John Cooper, who announced in June that he was stepping down. Cooper, who spent 11 years in the festival director post, will assume the newly created emeritus director role. Jackson, 49, is an Emmy-winning filmmaker from the U.K. and has served as director of the institute’s documentary film program for the past six years. The story.



^Sundance award winners: Lee Isaac Chung’s coming-of-age film Minari claimed the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury prize at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Director Amanda McBaine also came up big when her film Boys State landed the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Documentary Competition (she directed the film with Jesse Moss). Boys State also proved to be one of the biggest sales of the festival., with a $12 million Apple deal. The full list of winners.

+Critics' conversation: Dazzling docs and diverse voices lift Sundance 2020. If narrative features at this year's fest felt a bit small, the powerful, ambitious documentary selections — as well as striking works from and/or about people of color — saved the day. THR critics Jon Frosch, Todd McCarthy, David Rooney, Leslie Felperin and Beandrea July discuss the most memorable debuts. The conversation.

►Box office: Bad Boys for Life easily won Super Bowl weekend at the U.S. box office, earning another $17.7 million for a franchise-best domestic total of $148.1 million. The pic — which has stayed atop the chart for three consecutive weekends — is a major win for stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, as well as Sony. Oscar contender 1917 likewise continued to impress on the road to the Academy Awards ceremony on Feb. 9. The World War I movie, from Amblin and Universal, placed No. 2 with $9.7 million for a domestic cume of $119.2 million and $249 million worldwide.

--Overall weekend revenue hit $85 million this year, besting 2019’s 15-year low. Nevertheless, it was still the second-worst showing in recent times, per Comscore. The box office numbers.

Elsewhere in film...

-- Over the weekend, Mission: Impossible - Fallout filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie teased that Ethan Hunt antagonist Eugene Kittridge, played by Henry Czerny, will be returning for the first time since 1996's Mission: Impossible.

--How The Assistant was marketed amid the Harvey Weinstein trial.

--Sandy Powell on working with Martin Scorsese: "The first thing he does is look at the costumes."

--Cynthia Erivo: Why a theater buyout was significant for Harriet.

--How Once Upon a Time in Hollywood re-created lost L.A. locations.

 Oscars Week

+Oscar noms shed light on Academy's fears about a rapidly changing world. Perhaps fearful of their own evolving culture, voters this year have celebrated films about men coming to terms with their age and growing irrelevance, Robyn Bahr writes. The column.

+After BAFTA adds award for casting directors, will the Oscars follow? BAFTA Insiders say the inclusion of the new category (the first in 21 years) is long overdue and puts pressure on the Academy to do the same: "It's a milestone for our community." More.

+How the news can still sway Oscar voters. Academy members are human, too. Can their ballot choices be affected by outside forces after all the campaigning is finished? Scott Feinberg explores the possibility. Also: How a slew of awards shows and an SNL visit could impact the race.

+In case you missed it: here's THR's complete guide to all the Oscars parties and events happening this week. The list.

--Also: Here's Scott Feinberg's latest Feinberg Forecast, predicting how this year's slate of nominees will fare... How Uber, McDonald's and other businesses are aiming for an Oscar boost...



^Catherine Burns: The vanishing of an Oscar-nominated actress. Fifty years ago, her searing supporting role in Last  Summer led to critical acclaim and Academy recognition, but the actress soon disappeared from Hollywood, leaving her fans and showbiz admirers searching for answers. THR's Scott Feinberg and Scott Johnson attempt to solve one of Oscar’s great mysteries. The story.

►High Fidelity review: Inkoo Kang reviews the Hulu reboot, writing that "[t]he show isn't just unnecessary; it's a largely soulless cover that doesn't understand what made the original distinctive. Perhaps most dispiritingly, the marvelous wit and poignancy of the two episodes whose storylines appear to be wholly invented by the show's writers suggest that a great deal of talent was wasted on trying to give life to a seemingly DOA concept." The review.

►On Saturday Night Live: In its cold open, SNL once again tackled President Trump’s impeachment proceedings, presenting "The Trial You Wish Had Happened"... Host J.J. Watt also parodied The Bachelor and Frozen. The rest of the sketches.

The week ahead...

+In TV: Lego Masters debuts on Fox Wednesday... Brooklyn Nine-Nine returns to NBC Thursday, and MacGyver returns to CBS Friday... The new iteration of the XFL debuts Saturday on ABC and Fox...Homeland's final season returns to Showtime Sunday... More...

+In film: One big release this week looks to unseat Bad Boys at the box office: the Warner Bros. DC super-villain flick Birds of Prey: The Emancipation of Harley Quinn.

+In politics: The Iowa Caucus is today... President Trump will deliver is State of the Union address Tuesday... Trump will most likely be acquitted in his impeachment trial Wednesday... ABC hosts another Democratic primary debate Friday...

+The Oscars: They will be held Sunday and will air on ABC, but by now you probably knew that.

What else we're reading...

--"Can Louis CK spin his troubles into art?" [The New Yorker]

--"Jeff Bezos is sued by his girlfriend's brother" [NY Times]

--"At 71, James Taylor has a new audio memoir, loves watching ‘Blue Bloods’ and won’t dish on Carly Simon" [LA Times]

Today's birthdays: Warwick Davis, 50, Bob Griese, 75, Isla Fisher, 44, Amal Clooney, 42, Blythe Danner, 77.