Effect of Pandemic on Music Industry
___ Introducing Variety VIP+ Subscribe | Login Click to expand the Mega Menu Variety VARIETY Home Biz News Show Stopper: Coronavirus Sends Hollywood Into Unprecedented Crisis By Brent Lang , Adam B. Vary , Matt Donnelly The cancellation of SXSW on March 6 due to the coronavirus epidemic sent shockwaves through the entertainment industry. But in truth it was the culmination of weeks of mounting anxiety — in executive suites and corporate boardrooms, on studio lots, across television and film sets, at red-carpet premieres and in multiplexes and concert venues — that has left Hollywood fearfully staring into an abyss of uncertainty. No conversation, it seems, is complete without at least some reference to a public health crisis so widespread and world-altering that it could have been the plot of a blockbuster thriller. And actually, it was — 2011’s “Contagion,” directed by Steven Soderbergh, became one of the most rented movies on iTunes last week. But now, it’s all too terrib