Entertainment Industry News: Film Festivals and Business Moves

Warner Music Group has announced a plan to combine its global sync operations, bringing together its recorded music and publishing divisions into a single unit. The streamlined group will be led by industry vet Ron Broitman, who has been promoted to President of Global Sync. Based in Los Angeles he

With just two weeks until the 2026 midterm elections, anticipation and anxiety will only accelerate as social media is rife with the latest polls, early vote data and plenty of rumor. When it comes to election night itself, though, there will be some uniformity in the results being reported and the

“Learning how to make a film is one thing, but getting that film produced and seen by an audience is a completely different challenge,” Sharjah Intl. Film Festival for Children and Youth director Sheikha Jawaher bint Abdullah Al Qasimi tells Variety. “This is where many talented young filmmakers str

Italy’s audiovisual sector saw its first decline in content investment since 2018 last year, the annual APA report revealed at the MIA Market today. Overall, the audiovisual (read entertainment) sector generated €16.8B ($18.9B) in 2025, up 3.1% on the previous year, but inward investment in ci