EXCLUSIVE: Kristin Jones is leaving The North Road Company, we can reveal.
Jones has been with Peter Chernin‘s entertainment business as President of International Film and TV since its formation in April 2022, but is now set to exit.
North Road confirmed the veteran executive is leaving the company and added: “She will continue to serve as a producer on several North Road projects, including the highly anticipated series Bad Boy, by Euphoria creator Ron Leshem.”
Her departure comes after North Road last year hired former Showtime execs David Nevins, as CEO, and Amy Israel, as President of TV.
Jones had joined North Road after leaving AMC Networks International to launch the company’s London office alongside ex-Red Arrow Studios Chairman and CEO Jan Frouman, who is North Road’s President.
Her previous roles include AMC’s Executive VP of International Programming, consultant on the launch of free streamer Pluto TV, Chief Creative Officer at Michael Eisner’s Vuguru, and senior development and production roles at Miramax and Disney. Further back, she was a lit agent at ICM.
Jones was hired at North Road on the back of Chernin acquiring the U.S. assets of ProSiebenSat.1 Media-owned Red Arrow for $200M, as Deadline revealed at the time. It has gone on to buy the likes of The Last Dance producer Little Room Films and Turkish producer Karga Seven, while also investing in Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions and Two One Five Entertainment, the production house founded by Questlove and Black Thought of The Roots.
In March last year, reported on North Road’s debut international co-production – backing Euphoria creator Ron Leshem and Hagar Ben-Asher‘s drama Bad Boy, which he described as “the next Euphoria.”
There’s no word on the other projects North Road referred to in its statement, but it is understood Jones had been very active in meeting international producers during her spell at the company. North Road didn’t reveal if a replacement hire is planned.