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Amazon Studios Cancels SXSW Plans Due to Coronavirus Concerns

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Amazon Studios will no longer be going to SXSW, Variety has learned. The two screenings and panels planned for “Tales of the Loop” and “Upload,” in addition to a consumer marketing activation, have been canceled amid concerns over the spread of coronavirus.

So far, 11 cases of the respiratory illness have been confirmed in Texas, where SXSW takes place every year. The move follows Facebook and Twitter’s recent decisions to withdraw their participation from the annual music, technology and entertainment festival in Austin, which runs from March 13 to March 22.

It is not yet clear whether activities associated with non-studio divisions of Amazon have been canceled as well. A screening of the first two episodes of “Upload” had been set for the

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