CNN In Disarray

Elsewhere in TV...

►  Report: "NBCUniversal near deal to shift content to Peacock from Hulu." "New episodes of shows such as Saturday Night Live, The Voice and New Amsterdam would be affected starting this fall." [Wall Street Journal]

+ Also: Disney+ grows up, but what about Hulu? The move to add fare like Grown-ish and Black-ish to Disney+ risks alienating Hulu, which has long been the home of general entertainment network fare. Story.

► Starz' Power Book IV: Force ratings feat. The debut gathered 3.3 million cross-platform viewers, outdrawing the finales of Dexter: New Blood (3 million) and Yellowjackets (1.3 million) on Showtime and the season finale of The White Lotus (1.9 million) on HBO. More.

► Apple plans Dior and Chanel fashion drama. The streamer has handed out a straight-to-series order for The New Look, a scripted drama set to star Ben Mendelsohn as Christian Dior and Juliette Binoche as Coco Chanel. Story.

 
► Disney+ puts Beauty and the Beast series on hold. A delay with creative elements and scheduling challenges has forced the streamer to push back the spinoff of the feature film starring Josh Gad and Luke Evans. Story.

► HBO's White Lotus staffs up. Mike White’s satire has recruited Meghann Fahy, Theo James and Will Sharpe as regulars for season two.

► Hulu’s Chippendales series adds to cast. Andrew Rannells joins Kumail Nanjiani, Murray Bartlett and Annaleigh Ashford in Immigrant. Details.

► Walden Media developing The Fireman. Horror author Joe Hill is teaming with the company to develop a series based on his 2016 novel.

TV Review: Everything's Gonna Be All White 

Director: Sacha Jenkins I Showtime I Feb. 11 Premiere

"The series is solid, but the bonus episode is better." — THR's Daniel Fienberg.

Also - seen Netflix's The Woman in the House finale? About that surprise cameo.

Berlin's Bidding Wars

Sony's $60 million deal for Tom Hanks film A Man Called Otto is the first major deal of the Berlin market. Expect more.

Scott Roxborough writes: Other star-driven projects, including FilmNation’s Jonestown drama White Night, with Chloë Grace Moretz and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Protagonist’s thriller Berlin Nobody, with Eric Bana and Kiernan Shipka, could also spark bidding wars.

Extra, Extra! THR's 25-page daily Berlin newspaper is back, featuring news, profiles, interviews and reviews. Day 2 Daily I Berlin on THR.com

At the market...

+ Studio break-in disrupts sessions. Thieves stole key equipment at the European Film Market's virtual events production studio, forcing the EFM to shift to another location.

+ Elizabeth Banks’ abortion drama sells wide. Call Jane, the directorial debut of Phyllis Nagy, which also stars Sigourney Weaver, has landed further key territory deals for Protagonist Pictures. Details.

+ Millennium enlists Tim Blake Nelson, Clifton Collins Jr. The actors have signed on to co-star alongside Aaron Eckhart and Nina Dobrev in Bricklayer. Selling at EFM.

+ Q&A: Berlin jury president M. Night Shyamalan. The director spoke about the need for more original stories on screen and why genre movies are still treated as second-class cinema.

Elsewhere in film...

► Being shopped: a Cate Blanchett drama. The Oscar winner is set to star in and produce drama The New Boy from writer-director Warwick Thornton. CAA Media Finance and UTA are handling North America sales. Details.

► Focus plans theatrical bow for Vengeance. The darkly comic thriller, which will debut July 29, marks the directorial debut of writer and star B.J. Novak. More.

► Momentum picks up Dashcam. U.S., Canada and U.K. rights were sold for the Blumhouse thriller, directed by Rob Savage, which premiered at TIFF last year.

► Will Rogers Pioneers executive exiting. Todd Vradenburg's next stop: he’ll become president and CEO of the California/Nevada chapter of NATO.

► Bleecker Street pacts with Showtime. The three-year agreement will see the cabler take up to 12 films a year from the company, including Helen Mirren-starrer Golda and 892 with John Boyega. Story.

► Casting Society drops "of America." The new name reflects a more global outlook given that a quarter of its nearly 1,200 members are outside the U.S.

Film Review: Marry Me 

Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson I Universal I Feb. 11 I 59% RT Score

A "a big, frothy studio rom-com of the sort Lopez used to headline 20 years ago — or perhaps more accurately, of the sort Julia Roberts used to headline before that." — THR's Angie Han.

What else we're reading...

— "Spotify's share price is half the size it was a year ago. Could a big tech titan make a shock acquisition bid?" [Music Business Worldwide]

— "Podcasts are no longer private conversations." "Keeping track of all the garbage aired in audio can be a full-time job, and the stakes are getting higher." [The Atlantic]

— "YouTube offers a peek at product plans for 2022." "Shorts, live video, shopping are key points of emphasis." [Adweek]

— "What a $6.5 million Super Bowl ad can buy in digital media." For example: "650 million impressions on a Facebook advertisement." [Digiday]

— "Zillow’s shuttered home-flipping business lost $881 million in 2021." "Real-estate company says in a letter to shareholders that it is targeting revenue of $5 billion by 2025." [Wall Street Journal]

— "Adrift, broke, and disillusioned." An AOC profile: "How a struggling bartender became the face of a resurgent left." [New York]

Today's birthdays: Taylor Lautner, 30, Natalie Dormer, 40, Damian Lewis, 51, Jennifer Aniston, 53, Sheryl Crow, 60.