What's news: NBCUniversal braces for layoffs, White House reporters brace for four more years of President Trump, the pandemic continues to wreak havoc with film release dates, there's another G.I.Joe movie in the works, MGM production co-presidents out, CAA veteran Jeremy Plager goes solo. Plus: HBO renews Insecure, and the TCA summer press tour is canceled. --Alex Weprin

 NBCUniversal Layoffs In The Works

►NBCUniversal braces for "significant" layoffs and cost-reductions. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the entertainment and media giant is beginning to reexamine its organizational structure, in particular Universal Pictures and the Universal theme parks, both of which are temporarily sidelined with movie theaters and parks closed. The moves were teed up on the company's earnings call this week, when CEO Jeff Shell told analysts "the question about whether we’re rightsized on costs given where the environment is headed, the answer is probably no, and we’re addressing that pretty aggressively."

--This past week ViacomCBS saw significant layoffs, with Disney having moved to furlough more than 100,000 employees last month.

►Four more "exhausting" years? Trump reporters mull covering a second term. A senior CNN producer who spoke with THR's Jeremy Barr said that the network's journalists are not rooting against the president, but guessed they would welcome a return to a more "normal" presidency and accompanying news cycle.

--"As journalists, I don't think anybody cares about what party the president of the United States is," the producer said. "What they care about is being able to live their lives normally again. I think there's mental exhaustion around this presidency, and I don't know anybody who is enjoying it. I don't know anybody who wants to do another four years of this news cycle." The story.

+Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany says White House press briefings are back. The last White House press briefing was held 417 days ago by Sarah Huckabee Sanders. "We do plan to continue these," McEnany said Friday. The story.

 'John Wick 4' Pushed a Year

►The coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc with theatrical release dates. Lionsgate has now re-dated its theatrical slate, including releases like John Wick 4, Chaos Walking and Saw spinoff Spiral. The next installment in the John Wick franchise will hit theaters on May 27, 2022, a year later than its previous May 21, 2021 initial release. The Chris Rock-starring Spiral has now taken over that May 21, 2021 date, being pushed a year from its May 2020 release. Here are all the tweaks.

+In other release date news: An untitled Transformers film and Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7 have been given release dates in June 2022 and October 2020, respectively. More.

 Paramount and Hasbro are rolling more Snake Eyes. With its solo G.I. Joe movie Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, readying for an October release, the companies are moving to keep the Joe universe moving forward, and are in negotiations with Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse to pen a follow-up. The story.

+James Wan, John Wick writer Derek Kolstad team for sci-fi time travel tale Hunting Season. The project is being described as being in the tones of 1984, Fahrenheit 451 and Running Man. Frank M. Robinson’s story first appeared in Astounding Science Fiction Magazine in 1951. More.

+Marvel sets return to comic book stores with new release schedule. Marvel Entertainment has confirmed that it will return to comic book stores at the end of this month, although not when fans might have expected — and with a severely revised release schedule intended to not overwhelming retailers as they reopen from COVID-19 shutdowns. More.

►Coming soon to Hulu: HBO Max. WarnerMedia and Disney have extended HBO's previous distribution deal with Hulu to include the forthcoming streaming service. Users will be able to sign up for HBO Max directly through Hulu at the standard $14.99 rate. Existing Hulu subscribers with the HBO add-on will get HBO Max at no charge.

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►Cassidy Lange, Adam Rosenberg out as MGM co-presidents of production. The duo, who had been with MGM since 2011, were jointly promoted to manage growth in film franchises in 2018, while also reimagining IP from the studio's library and original productions. The exits occur as Michael De Luca, installed as chairman of the motion picture group in January, moves to reshape the direction of the studio. The story.

In other revolving door news...

+Jude Law signs with CAA. The actor had spent the last 15 years with WME. The agency will also rep his production company, Riff Raff Productions. More.

+CAA veteran Jeremy Plager exits to form management-production company. Plager is known for representing such A-listers as Jennifer Lawrence, Woody Harrelson, Gerard Butler, Mila Kunis, Emilia Clarke, Jesse Eisenberg, Hugh Grant, Jane Fonda, Kevin Costner, Sally Field and Donald Sutherland, among many others. He signed Lawrence and Butler when they were relative unknowns. Among those joining Plager as management clients are Harrelson, producer and financier Paul Brooks, actress Clara Rugaard, and new client, writer-director-producer Oren Moverman. More.

+Former CBS unscripted chief Sharon Vuong heads to NBC. The network has hired Vuong as senior vp alternative programming and development. In the new post, she'll lead new development, strategy and the continued growth of NBC's alternative roster. She reports to executive vp alternative programming and development Jenny Groom. More.

Obituaries: Matty Simmons, who co-founded the National Lampoon magazine and produced films including Animal House and the Vacation movies starring Chevy Chase, died Wednesday, his daughter announced. He was 93... Matteo De Cosmo, an art director who worked on such projects as Luke Cage and The Punisher, died April 21 of complications from the novel coronavirus. He was 52... Sam Lloyd, best known for his role as New Sacred Heart lawyer Ted Buckland on the long-running NBC-ABC medical comedy Scrubs, died Thursday night in Los Angeles. He was 56...

 Summer TCA Tour Canceled

►Summer TV critics press tour canceled. The event that sees scores of networks and select streamers present new and returning programming to a room filled with around 200 members of the press corps from all over the globe was scheduled to run July 28 through Aug. 13 at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena, Calif. The TCA board, in a letter to members Friday, said they are working with networks to explore virtual alternatives during the original time frame and beyond. Here's the note.

►Ben Schwartz, Sam Rockwell team for a secret comedy at Searchlight. The division, which last year released Jojo Rabbit, in which Rockwell appeared, and is now under the Disney banner, picked up the project as a pitch from Schwartz, who will now write the script. The story.

+You Cannot Kill David Arquette lands at Super LTD. The doc, which was headed for SXSW, follows Arquette as he tries to gain clout in the world of professional wrestling. More.

►Insecure renewed for season 5 on HBO. The pickup comes after three episodes of the show's fourth season, which premiered April 12. The renewal further cements ties between creator issa Rae and HBO. In addition to Insecure, Rae is an executive producer of A Black Lady Sketch Show, which has been renewed for a second season, and is developing a half-hour series about pro wrestling for HBO called Tre Cnt with Dwayne Johnson. More.

►Annie Weisman signs overall deal with Apple. Weisman, the creator and showrunner of the streamer's upcoming dramedy Physical, has signed a multi-year overall deal with the tech giant to develop projects for its TV+ streaming platform. She's moving to Apple after previously being under an overall deal at Universal TV. The story.

►TV Long View: Midseason's delayed-viewing champs. NBC's Manifest continues to over-perform in Nielsen's after-air measures, leading all midseason shows in long-tail gains, Rick Porter writes. The column.

►With no E3, video game industry comes together to launch Summer Game Fest event. The four-month virtual "season" will feature announcements, playable demos of upcoming titles, interviews, panels and more from leading developers and publishers, curated by The Game Awards creator, producer and host Geoff Keighley. The story.

In other gaming news...

+Activision Blizzard on Friday revealed a $2 million donation to the Call of Duty Endowment, a nonprofit organization founded in 2009 to assist unemployed veterans in returning to the workforce.

+In aid of the World Health Organization, producer and talent manager Sam White is hosting a Call of Duty: Warzone battle royale tournament open to anyone who works for an entertainment company.

+Sony Interactive Entertainment is silencing rumors that this week's The Last of Us Part II leaks — which included assets from the upcoming game that revealed key plot points and its ending — came from an internal source at developer Naughty Dog.

+Trilby Beresford has a new column looking at the world of indie games. Here's the first roundup.

TV ratings: NBC's Parks and Recreation special topped Thursday's ratings among adults 18-49, drawing numbers in line with its final season five years ago. CBS' Young Sheldon is close to a season high in total viewers, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire improved considerably on a new night. The numbers.

In other news...

--Lionsgate has inked a deal for writer-director team Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz's next film, Rapture, as the studio redates the duo's feature debut Antebellum for a worldwide theatrical release from Aug. 21.

--NBC News' Alison Morris on her Kobe Bryant flap: "The whole thing was so bad."

--Queen and Adam Lambert release a new version of "We Are the Champions" to honor front line workers.

What else we're reading...

--"A onetime leader of Fox News returns to the Murdoch fold" [NY Times]

--"After 25 years of streaming, the world can't live without it' [Wired]

--"Circling the drain of reality with Netflix’s reality shows" [The Ringer]

--"What’s fact and what’s fiction in Netflix’s Hollywood? We looked into it" [LA Times]

Today's birthdays: Dwayne Johnson, 48, Donatella Versace, 65, Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, 5, David Beckham, 45, Ellie Kemper, 40.