{"id":2257934,"date":"2026-01-30T13:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2257934"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:29:18","slug":"mediawan-acquires-peter-chernins-north-road-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mediawan-acquires-peter-chernins-north-road-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Mediawan Acquires Peter Chernin\u2019s North Road Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0827687\/\">Mediawan<\/a>, the award-winning studio behind \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1171463\/\">Adolescence<\/a>,\u201d \u201cF1\u201d and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1123127\/\">Miraculous<\/a>,\u201d has finalized its acquisition of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1858656\/\">Peter Chernin<\/a>\u2019s North Road.<\/p>\n<p>Together, Mediawan and North Road will operate nearly 100 individual production companies representing over $2 billion in annual production volume across 15 countries, including the U.S., France, Germany, U.K., Italy, Spain, Australia, Mexico and Turkey supported by a global distribution footprint, the companies stated in a joint release on Jan. 30. The acquisition was paid largely in stock and values North Road at roughly $900 million, according to The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>Chernin, a longtime media investor and former chairman of Fox who co-founded North Road with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0867768\/\">Jenno Topping<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2089029\/\">Jesse Jacobs<\/a> in 2022, will join the board of Mediawan and will serve as non-executive chairman of North Road. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1594428\/\">Scott Manson<\/a> will become CEO of the company.<\/p>\n<p>North Road will serve as Mediawan\u2019s North American hub. While Chernin is transitioning to a non-executive role,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mediawan, the award-winning studio behind \u201cAdolescence,\u201d \u201cF1\u201d and \u201cMiraculous,\u201d has finalized its acquisition of Peter Chernin\u2019s North Road. Together, Mediawan and North Road will operate nearly 100 individual production companies representing over $2 billion in annual production volume across 15 countries, including the U.S., France, Germany, U.K., Italy, Spain, Australia, Mexico and Turkey supported by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2257935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2257934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mediawan-Acquires-Peter-Chernins-North-Road-Company.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257936,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257934\/revisions\/2257936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2257935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}