Amazon Studios Pulls Out of SXSW 2020 Amid Coronavirus Fears

AUSTIN, Texas — One week after the city of Austin declared a local disaster and canceled South by Southwest for the first time in the festival’s 34-year history, a sense of unease and uncertainty about how this year’s non-event will play out feels palpable around town. When Mayor Steve Adler held that previously unthinkable press

On Thursday (March 12), the organizers of Los Angeles Pride announced what would have come as a shock just three weeks earlier: all of the planned celebrations around L.A. Pride's 50th anniversary are postponed. But as anyone who's been paying attention to the flood of event cancelations and postponements amid the global coronavirus pandemic knows, moves like this are beginning to feel common, if not inevitable.

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Justin Bieber’s upcoming stadium tour is scaling back to smaller venues due to sluggish ticket sales.

Ciara has canceled her March 19 concert in Texas after her doctors advised her not to travel amid the Coronavirus outbreak.

South by Southwest, a film, music, television, and interactive conference that takes place in Austin, Texas, has been cancelled for the first time in 34 years due to fears over the coronavirus.

Goodbye, South by Southwest.

SXSW has officially been canceled, amid growing fears over the spread of coronavirus. As of Friday afternoon, there have been 17 confirmed cases in Texas, where the annual entertainment, music and technology festival takes place.

Sony, Universal and Warner Music are asking their employees not to attend the upcoming 2020 South By Southwest Festival.

Starz is the latest entertainment company to pull out of the annual SXSW festival over coronavirus concerns, a source tells Variety, canceling its screening and activation for Cape Cod crime drama series “Hightown” and its featured session for “Power.”