Peter Chernin’s North Road Acquires “Significant” Stake In Questlove’s Two One Five Entertainment
deadline.comPeter Chernin’s spending continues. The former Fox boss’ The North Road Company has invested in and acquired a “significant” stake in Two One Five Entertainment, the production company founded by Questlove and Black Thought of The Roots.
The deal includes an equity stake, project financing and support to scale the business across scripted and non-scripted content.
The company is behind Academy Award-winning documentary Summer of Soul (… Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), which was directed by Questlove and told the story of the legendary 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival.
Other projects including The League, directed by Sam Pollard, about the Negro Baseball League, Descendant, which tells the stories of descendants of survivors of the Clotilda, the last ship that carried enslaved Africans to the United States, directed by Margaret Brown and produced with the Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions, and a Questlove-directed documentary for Hulu about Sly and the Family Stone.
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