Chernin Entertainment

Chernin Entertainment is an American film and television production company founded and owned by former News Corporation president and chief operating officer Peter Chernin, also CEO and chairman of the company. Jenno Topping is the current Head of Film and Television, with David Ready serving as EVP of Film and Television. Kristen Campo is the EVP of television. The company over eight years had made 24 films most of them with 20th Century Fox.

History
Chernin Entertainment was founded by Peter Chernin after he stepped down as president of Fox’s then-parent company News Corp. in 2009. The firm's first film was Rise of the Planet of the Apes in 2011. Chernin Entertainment's five-year first-look deal for the film and television was signed with 20th Century Fox and 20th Century Fox Television in 2009.

In March 2011, after leaving Maguire Entertainment, Jenno Topping joined the company as Executive Vice President (EVP) of the film division, and then in February 2013, she was promoted to President of films, vacated by Dylan Clark. David Ready was hired as Senior VP to report to Topping. In June 2015, the company's TV division's president Katherine Pope left the company, while Topping was promoted to President of Film and Television. In August 2015, Dante Di Loreto was hired and appointed as President of Television at the company, reporting to Topping. Kristen Campo joined the company in 2016 to run television after Di Loreto's departure.

In November 2014, the company signed an extension of the first-look deal with 20th Century Fox for films at less lucrative terms. With only one hit TV show, New Girl, the TV pact was being shopped around. In June 2015, Chernin signed its television production deal for two years with NBCUniversal, in which Chernin would develop and produce projects for NBC through Universal Television. That deal was followed with one with Endeavor Content for a scripted drama pact in 2017.

On January 17, 2020, Disney's 20th Century Studios also ended its production deal, which had about four years remaining, with Chernin Entertainment as Disney limited bring on third-party financier and its refocusing 20th Century Studios on its franchises. Chernin would work on the Planet of the Apes franchise and about 9 other films with the studio while taking 70 out of 80 films in development in the split.

Production
Chernin Entertainment produces for television and film.

The company's first feature film Rise of the Planet of the Apes was released in August 2011 and has grossed more than $480 million at the worldwide box office. It has also produced Parental Guidance, a comedy starring Billy Crystal and Bette Midler, which was released in December 2012, the sci-fi thriller from Joseph Kosinski, Oblivion, starring Tom Cruise, and The Heat, starring Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock.

Filmography
All films distributed by 20th Century Fox unless otherwise noted.


 * 2011: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
 * 2012: Parental Guidance
 * 2013: Oblivion - distributed by Universal Pictures
 * 2013: The Heat
 * 2014: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
 * 2014: The Drop - distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures
 * 2014: St. Vincent - distributed by The Weinstein Company
 * 2014: Exodus: Gods and Kings
 * 2015: Spy
 * 2016: Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
 * 2016: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
 * 2016: Hidden Figures
 * 2017: Snatched
 * 2017: War for the Planet of the Apes
 * 2017: The Mountain Between Us
 * 2017: The Greatest Showman
 * 2018: Red Sparrow
 * 2019: Tolkien - distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures
 * 2019: Ford v Ferrari
 * 2019: Spies in Disguise with Blue Sky Studios, 20th Century Fox Animation
 * 2020: Underwater
 * 2020: Fear Street
 * 2021: Untitled Planet of the Apes sequel
 * TBA: Starring - distributed by Warner Bros., with New Line Cinema
 * TBA: Ever After High (film)

Television

 * New Girl (September 20, 2011— May 15, 2018) Fox
 * Touch (2012—2013 ) Fox
 * Terra Nova (2011—2012) Fox
 * Breakout Kings (March 6, 2011 –April 29, 2012) A&E
 * Ben and Kate (September 25, 2012, to January 22, 2013) Fox