What's news: Bob Greenblatt and Kevin Reilly out in a WarnerMedia shakeup, Jason Kilar explains the rationale for the moves, Noah Hawley's Star Trek on the back burner at Paramount, Ben Affleck's Chinatown movie, the end of the Paramount Consent Decrees, remembering HFPA president Lorenzo Soria. Plus: Hulu programming moves, and HBO Max's Friends special is delayed again. --Alex Weprin

 WarnerMedia Shakeup

►Bob Greenblatt, Kevin Reilly out amid major WarnerMedia restructuring. HBO programming president Casey Bloys and Warner Bros. CEO Ann Sanoff will together lead a newly expanded content group that encompasses the entire portfolio. WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar detailed the major restructuring in a memo to staff Friday.

--As part of the changes, HBO Max GM Andy Forssell will now lead a newly created HBO Max operating business unit, reporting directly to Kilar. Sarnoff will oversee a newly created Studios and Networks Group, which combines content studios and programming across Warner Bros., HBO, HBO Max, TNT, TBS and TruTV. The unit will oversee all WarnerMedia TV series and film development, production and programming.

--Also in the works, per Kilar's memo: "Simplifying our approach and narrowing our focus goes beyond, for example, having one content organization vs two. It also means that we will be reducing the size of our teams, our layers, and our overall workforce." The story.

+Natalie Jarvey and Kim Masters interviewed Kilar: The executive, who has been on the job for just three months, confirmed the layoffs, explained the new structure, suggested shorter theatrical windows are coming and addressed Bob Greenblatt's departure.

--"What these changes are largely about is me feeling very strongly that where a media company should go in terms of the future is to orient themselves as a consumer oriented company. These changes represent prioritizing three different things. Number one, a consumer orientation far more than a wholesale orientation. Number two, going direct-to-consumer. And number three, going global." The interview.

 Noah Hawley's Star Trek on the back burner at Paramount. Paramount’s newly-installed motion picture group president Emma Watts is re-assessing the slate. And one title under the microscope? Star Trek, several sources tell Borys Kit. Three different versions of the classic sci-fi adventure are in development at the studio, including one by Quentin Tarantino. Another one seeks to reunite the cast of the reboot made by J.J. Abrams several years ago. And there's a third one being developed by Fargo TV creator Noah Hawley.

--As Watts looks to see what should be a priority, sources tell THR that Hawley’s project is heading to the lower decks. One reason could be due to a plot centering around a virus that wipes out vast parts of the known universe, a topic that not seen as a good or sensitive fit if you’re making escapist entertainment given the current coronavirus pandemic. The story.

+Jason Bateman, Game Night writer reteam for Superworld. The project will be an adaptation of Gus Krieger's recently released novel, set in a world where everyone on the planet has super powers — except for one man. More.

 The End of the Paramount Consent Decrees

The Paramount Consent Decrees will be no more. After nearly three quarters of a century being the quiet influence on how Hollywood operated, the Decrees are officially over. On Friday, a New York federal judge granted a motion by the U.S. Department of Justice to terminate the movie industry's long-lasting licensing rules.

--The Paramount Consent Decrees have been in effect since the late 1940s when the government pursued a major antitrust action against film studios, which in those days, were vertically aligned with national theater chains. The story.

+AMC accuses AT&T of doing what it said it wouldn't during Time Warner merger trial. The Walking Dead network asks the FCC to punish AT&T for favoring HBO and TNT over non-owned channels. An AMC spokesperson comments, "We have had a long and successful relationship with AT&T and we hope to continue our strong partnership well into the future. We are only asking AT&T to treat our networks fairly and not competitively disadvantage our programming and business interests as compared to the manner in which they treat their own networks like HBO and TNT.” The story.

►Top NBCU exec pledges "broader culture assessment" in addition to network investigation. NBCUniversal TV and Streaming chairman Mark Lazarus informed staff Friday that the company plans to push forward with its investigation into allegations of a toxic workplace culture that were raised in a THR story centered on NBC Entertainment chairman Paul Telegdy and his top deputy, unscripted chief Meredith Ahr. Telegdy unceremoniously exited the company Thursday as part of a larger restructuring, while Ahr remains in place.

--Sources tell Lesley Goldberg the investigation at NBC will be conducted by someone other than the outsider who found a "culture of diversity" at America's Got Talent. The memo.

►Ben Affleck to write, direct making of Chinatown movie for Paramount. Affleck will write the script and is set to direct The Big Goodbye, an adaptation of The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood by author Sam Wasson. Affleck will also produce with Lorne Michaels, who initially nabbed the rights to the book. The story.

 Hulu News

►Hulu renews Padma Lakshmi’s Taste the Nation, orders another David Chang series. Chang’s new series, another project in collaboration with Ugly Delicious partner Morgan Neville, is called The Next Thing You Eat. Each of the six episodes explores the massive changes occurring around the world and how they affect restaurants and food. Additionally, Hulu announced that Maya Rudolph is set to narrate the previously announced original series, another Vox Media offering, Eater’s Guide to the World. The first seven episodes are scheduled to drop Nov. 11. The story.

+Love, Victor renewed at Hulu. A reboot of the Fox 2000 feature Love, Simon, the half-hour series was originally developed for Disney+ before moving to the more adult-oriented streamer out of concerns about themes including drinking and adultery. More.

+More Hulu news: Elle Fanning is adding a second Hulu show to her resumé. The star of The Great has signed on to topline a limited series called The Girl From Plainville at the Disney-owned streamer... Selena Gomez is headed for Hulu. The singer, actress and producer has been tapped to star alongside Steve Martin and Martin Short in Hulu's straight-to-series comedy Only Murders in the Building...

►The Friends reunion special is delayed again at HBO Max. The one-off special featuring all six original stars was poised to film this month on the show's iconic Warner Bros. soundstage in Burbank, Calif., but has now been pushed to a new, yet-to-be determined date because of the pandemic. More.

In other TV news...

+Ava DuVernay, HBO Max tee up One Perfect Shot docuseries. The WarnerMedia streamer has greenlit a series based on the popular Twitter feed, that will feature directors to deconstructing their most iconic images. DuVernay will narrate the show and serve as one of its executive producers — as will Neil Miller, publisher of Film School Rejects, which owns and runs the Twitter account. More.

+Soulmates anthology renewed at AMC ahead of series premiere. The six-episode first season is a wry examination of the nature of romantic love through a sci-fi lens, with a different story in each episode. More.

+AMC has locked in a star-studded cast for its first-ever animated primetime drama. Daniel Dae Kim, Katie Chang and Rosemarie DeWitt will star in Pantheon, a sci-fi drama from Craig Silverstein, AMC Studios and animation house Titmouse Inc. More.

►Lorenzo Soria, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, dies at 68. The good-natured Soria headed the HFPA — the organization behind the annual Golden Globe Awards — in 2003-04, 2004-05, 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2019-20. He joined the organization in 1989 and served on its board for years. Born in Buenos Aires in 1951, Soria was 11 when his family moved to Milan following the death of his father. He edited and wrote for the Italian publications L'Espresso (starting in 1977) and La Stampa and had lived in Los Angeles since 1982. He was a Fulbright scholar. The obituary.

►Tribeca Film Festival sets 20th anniversary edition for June 2021. These dates are roughly two months later than the festival's traditional April calendar spot but the plans for next year's festival suggest that organizers are optimistic that some in-person events will be able to take place in the city next June after the 2020 festival was forced to move its programming online as the pandemic ravaged New York, prompting the shutdown of non-essential businesses. More.

 Orlando Bloom on shedding his movie star image for demanding roles: "Now all bets are off." The actor opens up about his challenging new film Retaliation, how he navigated franchise superstardom and why he's so keen on the next phase of his career in an interview with Chris Gardner. The interview.

+Louis C.K. makes "surprise appearance" at Dave Chappelle's Summer Camp comedy show. In an Aug. 4 photo, Louis C.K. is flanked by Dave Chappelle, Michelle Wolf, DJ Trauma and Mo Amer during one of Chappelle's events in Yellow Springs, Ohio. More.

►Broadcast TV ratings: ABC collected another ratings victory among adults 18-49 demographic on Thursday, with To Tell the Truth leading the broadcast networks in the key ad demographic. CBS led the networks in total viewers, paced by Young Sheldon. The numbers.

Obituaries: Brent Carver, the Tony Award-winning Canadian stage and screen star, has died. He was 68... Richard Fielder, an Emmy-nominated writer who penned episodes of such shows as Gunsmoke, The Waltons and Marcus Welby, M.D., died July 22 of natural causes at a Dallas-area hospital, his family announced. He was 95...

In other news...

--Guillermo del Toro is reteaming with DreamWorks Animation and Netflix to produce a motion picture based on his Emmy- and Annie-award winning Trollhunters Tales of Arcadia fantasy franchise. Wizards, the third series in the franchise, debuts today on Netflix.

--The MTV the VMAs will not be held at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, as originally planned. Instead, the Aug. 30 show, to be hosted by actress and singer Keke Palmer, will consist of "several outdoor performances around [New York] City with limited or no audience." The show will return to Barclays Center (which hosted the VMAs once before, in 2013) in 2021.

--Louis C.K.’s slow-burning comeback just got a boost from longtime friend Dave Chappelle.

--The found-footage horror feature Cruiser is dropping on VOD later this month. Starring Tony winner Shuler Hensley, Matt Bauman, Brandon Carroll and Lori Beth Sikes, the Gravitas Ventures picture tells the story of a mysterious, hulking figure who begins a night of carnage and terror in a small Georgia town after murdering a police officer and stealing his patrol car. It will be available Aug. 25.

--Content creator and podcast host Jay Shetty has signed with WME.

--First, Oprah Winfrey put Breonna Taylor on the cover of O, The Oprah Magazine. Now the media mogul is spreading her message with billboards demanding justice for the Kentucky woman shot to death during a police raid.

What else we're reading...

--"Ad agency sues Scott Rudin, saying producer owes $6.3 million" [NY Times]

--"As Ashton Kutcher and Jay Leno support Ellen DeGeneres, a backlash brews" [LA Times]

--"What would happen if Dominic Toretto entered the Xander zone?" [The Ringer]

--Disney is raising the price of ESPN+ [Sports Business Daily]

Today's birthdays: David Evans aka The Edge, 59, Dustin Hoffman, 83, Roger Federer, 39, JC Chasez, 44, Shawn Mendes, 22.