Bob Chapek's Big Quarter

As Disney crushed Wall Street expectations for the company's latest quarterly earnings report, a few new details emerged:

+ Disney spent $920 million on programming and production for Disney+ for the quarter ending Jan. 1.

+ Disney+ subscribers in the U.S./Canada account for a third, or 42.9 million, of the streamer’s 129.8 million subscribers, the company revealed for the first time.

+ Average revenue per user (ARPU) improved significantly at Disney+ to $6.68, up 15 percent from a year prior.

+ “We do not subscribe to the belief that theatrical releases are the only way to build Disney franchises,” Chapek told an earnings call.

Elsewhere in TV...

►  Hulu revives Futurama. Nearly 10 years after it signed off, the Matt Groening and David X. Cohen-created show is getting a 20-episode run on what will be the third platform for the animated comedy. Details.

► 20th TV inks deal with Family Guy alum. Maggie Mull, who co-created the forthcoming Hulu comedy Maggie, has signed a multiyear overall pact.

► Disney+ Marvel series Ironheart adds to cast. In the Heights' Anthony Ramos joined a show led by Dominique Thorne and head writer Chinaka Hodge. More.

► Netflix unveils Adam Project. Ryan Reynolds plays a time-traveling pilot who travels back to 2022, where he encounters his 12-year-old self. Trailer.
 
►  Disney+ plans Obi-Wan Kenobi debut. The Star Wars spinoff show will premiere on May 25, exactly 45 years after the original movie hit theaters.

►  Amazon pacts with Shepperton Studios. Prime Video will use 450,000 square feet at the historic U.K. studio, where Netflix already has a long-term deal in place.

► R.I.P., George Spiro Dibie. The cinematographer who collected five Emmy Awards as he shot such sitcoms as Barney Miller, Night Court, Growing Pains and Sister, Sister, has died. He was 90. Full obit.

Review: Bel-Air

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"It’s probably the most 2022 thing imaginable to take one adored show and reboot it in a way that feels derivative of at least a half-dozen other shows." — THR's Daniel Fienberg.

Welcome Back to Berlin

On-site at the 72nd Berlinale, Scott Roxborough writes: Fears that efforts by organizers to hold an in-person film festival in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic would result in endless lines, stress and frustration for those attending, didn’t pan out on day 1 of the 2022 edition. Berlin’s strict COVID safety and security measures will already be familiar to those who attended Cannes or Venice last year. Fest kicks off.

Extra, Extra! THR's 34-page daily Berlin newspaper returns, tracking European Film Market dealmaking as well as offering news, profiles and interviews from market execs. The Day 1 Daily I Berlin on THR.com

+ Zoom fatigue hits EFM. Facing the uncertainty of an indie market in limbo, buyers and sellers logging into the European Film Market long for the days when dealmaking was a more personal affair.

+ Berlin Hidden Gem: Oink. Mascha Halberstad's charming debut feature — opening the Generation Kplus competition — follows a young girl given a pet piglet by her grandfather. Story.

Elsewhere in film...

► The Oscars COVID-19 safety plans. The Academy intends to require just a negative PCR test or a negative rapid antigen test on the day of the event, unlike the SAG Awards and Critics Choice Awards, which will require proof of vaccination. More.

► Sony enlists Zooey Deschanel to star in a live-action take on Harold and the Purple Crayon, from director Carlos Saldanha and writers David Guion and Michael Handleman. Details.

► STX's Ferrari takes shape. Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz and Shailene Woodley have been cast in Michael Mann’s passion project, which is back on track.

*Trailer: Universal drops a 2:51 clip for Jurassic World: Dominion. Watch.

► Sony/Marvel expands Spider-verse again. Russell Crowe is set to join Kraven the Hunter, starring alongside Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who last year signed a multipicture deal to play the titular antihero.

► Netflix's Rebel Moon adds to cast. Ray Fisher, Charlie Hunnam, Djimon Hounsou and Bae Doona have joined the sci-fi fantasy film.

► Amazon plans Sitting In Bars With Cake. Yara Shahidi has nabbed the starring role in the comedy that Trish Sie has come aboard to direct.

► Bleecker Street buys Mafia Mamma. Catherine Hardwicke’s action-comedy will star Toni Collette, Monica Bellucci and Rob Huebel and start production in May 2022 in Italy.

What else we're reading...

— "Inside The Rings of Power." A first look with new photos and storylines to follow on Amazon's big LOTR series bet. [Vanity Fair]

— "Hollywood’s first family of putting it out there." "In a book, web series and music, Will, Jada, Jaden and Willow Smith have remade a star household for the new era of reality-driven celebrity." [New York Times]

— "Sting sells entire song catalog to Universal Music." Terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but the artist had been shopping for a "$360 million payday." [Billboard]

— "Rick Caruso appears poised to jump into L.A. mayor’s race." "The billionaire developer has made a Friday afternoon appointment to file a declaration of his intent to run." [Los Angeles Times]

— "Why Disney+ is going live." "One possible explanation: The company is getting ready to abandon traditional TV and move some of its cable networks onto Disney+." [Protocol]

— "YouTube plans to make gaming videos immersive in metaverse push." As "people watch more than 700 million hours of YouTube content on their televisions a day." [Bloomberg]

— "Facebook has a superuser-supremacy problem." "Most public activity on the platform comes from a tiny, hyperactive group of abusive users." [The Atlantic]

Today's birthdays: Uzo Aduba, 41, Elizabeth Banks, 48, Laura Dern, 55, Vince Gilligan, 55, Bob Iger, 71, Roberta Flack, 85.