Formation and expansions The company was formed in July 2022 when Peter Chernin, founder & CEO
Chernin Entertainment and founder of the former's parent
The Chernin Group, had depatured the latter parent and announced that he had taken his film & television production company Chernin Entertainment & its unscripted production studio
Words + Pictures to establish a global independent and production content studio that entitled, The North Road Company, as the two subsidiaries became part of his new company as labels, while the new global company had acquired the US assets of German entertainment & international distribution company
Red Arrow Studios from ProSiebenSat.1 Media (which were
Kinetic Content,
Left/Right Productions,
Half Yard Productions, Dorsey Pictures and
44 Blue Productions) and the remaining 50% stake in unscripted documentary production company Words + Pictures with Peter Chernin became CEO & chairman of the new company with Chernin Entertainment veteran Jenno Topping retained his role president of The North Road Company's division Chernin Entertainment and started overseeing The North Road Company's scripted film and television operations alongside Words + Pictures founder Connor Schell who had continued running the unscripted production company under North Road and would assume The North Road Company's unscripted operations as head of unscripted. The new global content studio had also established its international division based in London, England, named North Road International, as Jan Frouman (who joined Chernin Entertainment three months prior back in April of that year) became The North Road Company's president as former
AMC Networks executive Kirstin Jones joined The North Road Company and became the global studio's president of international film & television and the two would run North Road's new international division with their international office being based in
London,
England. In June 2023 following North Road's establishment a year prior in July 2022, The North Road Company had its first acquisition when they had brought Istanbul and LA-based Turkish/American film & television drama production company Karga Seven Pictures to expand North Road's scripted operations, the acquisition of Turkish/American film & television drama production outfit Karga Seven Pictures had marked The North Road Company's first international acquisition & their first international expansion along with their expansion of their international operations into Turkey and reunited Karga Seven Pictures with Red Arrow's former American unscripted production subsidiaries (which were Kinetic Content, Left/Right Productions, Half Yard Productions, Dorsey Pictures, and 44 Blue Productions that North Road acquired a year prior in 2022), with Karga Seven Pictures co-founders & producers Sarah Wetherbee, Emre Sahin and Kelly McPherson continued to lead the acquired Turkish/American production company under The North Road Company with Sarah Wetherbee and Emre Sahin becoming global CEOs and Ömer Müjdat Özgüner was hired by Karga Seven Pictures and became the new CEO of the company. Five months later in November of that year, The North Road Company had acquired a majority stake in Los Angeles-based production company Two One Five Entertainment, lead & co-founded by the founders of the hip hop band
The Roots,
Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter and
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson as Two One Five Entertainment became a subsidiary of The North Road Company, with them would financing Two One Five Entertainment's future film and television projects along with North Road expanding Two One Five into the scripted business. In January 2025, The North Road Company expanded into the Latin American production business with the acquisition of Mexican television production company Perro Azul, marking North Road's second international production studio acquisition and its first entry into Latin America since their acquisition of Turkish/American drama television studio Karga Seven Pictures two years prior in June 2023 as Mexican television production studio Perro Azul became a subsidiary of The North Road Company with Perro Azul's founders Alexis Fridman and Juan Uruchurtu continued leadering the acquired Mexican production company under North Road. Most recently, the company signed a film deal with
Apple TV+.
Acquisition by Mediawan In January 2026, French media entertainment studio Mediawan had entered advanced talks to acquire American global entertainment & production content studio The North Road Company alongside its international division North Road International, including its scripted entertainment production arm Chernin Entertainment, its minority stake in
Omaha Productions, Turkish/American drama production company Karga Seven Pictures, Mexican scripted television studio Perro Azul and its unscripted production operations which were Words + Pictures (alongside its subsidiary Little Room Films), Left/Right, Kinetic Content and 44 Blue Productions from its founder Peter Chernin that would expand Mediawan's American production operations and the planned acquisition of North Road would lead Mediawan's entry into the Turkish and Latin American production operations. A week later on the 30th in that same month, Mediawan confirmed that they had acquired American global entertainment production & distribution studio The North Road Company including its international distribution arm North Road International, alongside its scripted & entertainment production arm Chernin Entertainment, its minority stake in Omaha Productions and Two One Five Entertainment, Turkish/American drama production company Karga Seven Pictures, Mexican scripted television studio Perro Azul and its unscripted production operations which were Words + Pictures (alongside its subsidiary Little Room Films), Kinetic Content and 44 Blue Productions from its founder Peter Chernin, the acquisition of The North Road Company had gained Mediawan access to the Mexican & Turkish film & television production activities and expanding its American production operations with North Road became Mediawan's American production subsidiary alongside Chernin Entertainment whilst the latter's founder Peter Chernin joined Mediawan's board and continued leading North Road as non-executive chairman under Mediawan. ==Subsidiaries==