Former HBO Exec Len Amato Joins MasterClass as Chief Content Officer

Valentine’s Day 2022 is right around the corner — and that means we're now in the thick of the year's most romantic season. Streaming services like HBO Max, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Peacock and Netflix have hundreds of romantic movies available to watch and help you get in the mood of this lovey holiday. For this romantic movie list, we’ve curated the hottest new releases, along with unforgettable classics for your viewing pleasure — and available to stream right away.These films will make you laugh, cry, tingle, sweat and fall in love all over again.

Tilly Ramsay has been wowing fans every night on the Strictly Come Dancing UK tour, as her dad Gordon supports her from home.

EXCLUSIVE: Ziffren Brittenham partner Eric Sherman has left to become Chief Legal Officer & General Counsel of Thunder Road Films and game1. Sherman will oversee business and legal affairs for both Thunder Road Films and game1, as well as Asbury Park Pictures.

elections.“Are you ready for the midterm elections?” the former first lady asks in a video announcement Monday.H.E.R., Curry, Lopez, Becky G and Bretman Rock are the newest co-chairs of Obama's When We All Vote initiative. They join Selena Gomez, Tom Hanks, Liza Koshy, Janelle Monae, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Chris Paul, Megan Rapino, Shonda Rhimes, Kerry Washington and Rita Wilson.The volunteer co-chairs use their platforms to help boost voter registration and education with the goal of helping increase turnout for congressional and state elections in November.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“Spider-Man: No Way Home” is the box office juggernaut that can’t be caught.The comic book adventure, starring Tom Holland as Marvel’s favorite teen web-slinger, opened in theaters in December and spent every weekend except one as the top movie at the domestic box office. This weekend proved to be no exception. Now in its seventh weekend of release, “No Way Home” has again secured the No.

Refresh for chart and more analysis No one can complain that nobody went to the movies this weekend, because the major studios didn’t really give them a reason to come out. That’s because there aren’t any new wide releases as the majors became fearful about Omicron’s impact coupled with a historically lackluster domestic box office period. This weekend with roughly $34.7M for all movies is the lowest since Sept. 24-26; that’s when Shang-Chi was in its 4th weekend with $13M and Universal’s Dear Evan Hansen died with a $7.4M opening, amounting to a $38.8M weekend for all titles. Next weekend, Lionsgate hopes to lure people out with Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall and Paramount’s Jackass Forever, both looking at double low-to-mid teen digits, that is before their final week media blitz ensues.

Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group has brought on Sydnie Karras in the newly-created position of Chief Accounting Officer.

Former Coronation Street actor Sean Ward has admitted that he had to give up his house after sharing his anti-vax views led to his work drying up.

Manchester United winger Amad is set to join Rangers on loan for the rest of the season and the deal could be confirmed later today.

Gordon Ramsay’s Studio Ramsay Global (SRG) has opened its third hub in Glasgow from which it will produce a second series of BBC One format Future Food Stars.

Jodie Foster has joined the cast of “Nyad,” a biopic based on the life of famed long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad that will be directed by the Oscar-winning duo behind “Free Solo.”Annette Bening is set to star as Diana Nyad and the film will tell the story of how Nyad at age 64 became the first person to swim the length of Cuba to Florida without the aid of a cage through waters infested by sharks and poisonous jellyfish. Foster will play Bonnie Stoll, Nyad’s coach and longtime friend.Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin will make their narrative feature debut on the biopic.The film is based on Diana Nyad’s autobiography “Find a Way” and has a screenplay by Emmy-winner Ann Biderman (“Ray Donovan”) with revisions by Black List writer Julia Cox (the upcoming “Do No Harm”).Mad Chance’s Andrew Lazar and Black Bear Pictures’ Teddy Schwarzman developed and will produce.Nyad came to fame as a long-distance swimmer back in the ’70s when she swam around the length of Manhattan, or 28 miles.

Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland has promoted longtime development executive Alison Eakle.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeShondaland has rounded out its new executive leadership team, promoting longtime development executive Alison Eakle to chief content officer, TV & film, while Chris DiIorio has been upped to chief marketing officer. Both of these are newly created roles at the company.“Both Alison and Chris have been integral to the growth and success of Shondaland and I am thrilled that they will be taking on new, expanded positions within the organization,” said CEO Shonda Rhimes.The promotions come following the appointment of Megha Tolia as Shondaland’s new president.

Jessica Alba over 20 years ago on James Cameron's 2000 sci-fi show "Dark Angel." The experience isn't one he remembers fondly.While on Michael Rosenbaum's Inside of You podcast, the former "Days of Our Lives" actor was asked if it was "cool to work with" Jessica back then. "No, she was horrible," he said, quickly noting that he was not joking. "I've told this to her face."Pressed on the details of his less-than-stellar memories, Jensen said, "I've love Jess, which kind of contradicts what I just said.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorPodimo, the European podcast subscription-service startup, named digital media exec Sachin Doshi, whose career has included gigs at Spotify, Twitter and Universal Music Group, to the position of chief content officer.Doshi, based in New York, will lead Podimo’s global content team and report to CEO Morten Strunge. Most recently, he was director of product at Twitter, having joined the social network last year after the acquisition of Scroll, the company he co-founded that had launched a subscription service for ad-free access to articles on participating sites.Prior to co-founding Scroll in 2016, Doshi was VP of content at Spotify, where he worked for five years.

Lindsay Wagner has been appointed as UTA’s first-ever Chief Diversity Officer, the agency announced on Tuesday.

Len Amato, the former President of HBO Films, Miniseries and Cinemax, has been named chief content officer at MasterClass. He will head the content organization and help lead content innovation, strategy and development of class launches for the educational streaming platform.

Angelique Jackson UTA has tapped Lindsay Wagner to serve as the global talent, entertainment and sports company’s chief diversity officer.In the newly created role, Wagner will be tasked with expanding and driving strategy for the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, including UTA’s previously announced commitment of $1 million to social justice causes, which accompanied a series of internal initiatives. Additionally, Wagner will counsel UTA’s clients, working to devise and implement innovative tactics that “exemplify company’s dedication to upholding diverse perspectives and projects.”Based in Los Angeles, Wagner will report jointly to UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer and partner and chief people officer Jean-Rene Zetrenne.