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Peter Chernin

Peter Chernin

American film producer and businessman

Jun 15, 2026

7:20
But explain to me what appealed to you about this particular project and Kane himself.
7:26
I would say it's certainly good guessing, like anything else in life.
7:30
Um, but, you know, I guess you look at these things in two ways.
7:34
One is you just look at the size of the audience and the engagement of the audience, which was quite extraordinary.
7:40
But I felt from the very beginning that there was...
7:44
What, what Kane did that in my mind was so impressive, and he did it as a, originally did it as a fifteen-year-old, is he took...
7:53
Originally, Backrooms was a meme on 4chan.

34 MINS LATER

41:51
Sure, please
11:41
And some people in town looked at that and said, "If Chernin is the smartest media investor in town and he's selling, that is a sign that we're in trouble." Why did you sell North Road?
11:55
Yeah.
11:55
So first of all, I'd say I'm incredibly proud of what we built.
11:59
We raised $300 million.
12:00
We sold this thing.
12:01
It's been widely reported, so I'm not saying this, but what has been reported, we sold it between 800 million and a billion dollars.
12:07
So I'm really proud of what we built, and I'm really proud.

26 MINS LATER

38:37
You're one of the few guys that has really navigated it exceptionally well in your post-studio life.

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