Latest in Frank Darabont

The first season of the latest Walking Dead spinoff The Ones Who Live is concluding this weekend, but the latest profit participation lawsuit from zombie apocalypse creator Robert Kirkman, franchise executive producer Gale Anne Hurd and others is far from over. With heavy emphasis on the $200 millio…

(Updated with Kirkman lawyer statement) AMC wants the $200 million profits lawsuit from The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd and fellow executive producers to be D.O.A. "Having lost resoundingly in state court on different theories, Plaintiffs are at it again, now asking this Court…

EXCLUSIVE: After nearly six years, one mini-trial and with another trial set for next month, the profits participation battle between The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman and fellow executive producers of the now concluded zombie apocalypse series and AMC has come to an end, kinda. "The parties…

EXCLUSIVE: Yellow Veil Pictures has acquired world sales rights to Daphné Baiwir's feature documentary King On Screen. The film, which centers on the journey of works by legendary horror author Stephen King from the page to cinema and television screens, will premiere at Fantastic Fest in September. Approved by King…

(Updated with plaintiffs’ attorney statement) The Walking Dead is coming to an end this year, and so it seems is most of the long-standing legal action by Robert Kirkman and other executive producers of the zombie apocalypse series against AMC. In a final ruling Wednesday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Daniel…

AMC Networks joined the ranks of media companies showing that TV advertising has mounted a significant recovery from the devastation of Covid-19 a year ago. The company reported total revenue of $771.4 million in the second quarter ended June 30, up 19% from the same period of 2020. Adjusted, diluted earnings per…

Less than a month before The Walking Dead kicks off its 11th and final season, the long and bitter legal war between former showrunner Frank Darabont, CAA and AMC is over. In the dictionary definition of a strategic whimper not a bang, the cabler just filed paperwork with the SEC declaring that they have paid out $200…

Set to go to trial next month, Frank Darabont and CAA's more than seven-year legal battle with AMC over hundreds of millions in profits from The Walking Dead now looks likely to still be going on even after the zombie apocalypse series is over – maybe. Today, New York Supreme Court Justice Joel Cohen pushed the start…

Thanks to a certain mace and a certain priest, things got pretty bloody on The Walking Dead last night. However, life and deathnow  has also become part of the narrative in the over-seven-year-long legal battle between AMC and original TWD showrunner Frank Darabont and CAA over about $300 million in…

A New York jury will not hear the profanity packed emails of original The Walking Dead showrunner Frank Darabont in the trial for the $300 million profits participation battle from the Shawshank Redemption director and CAA against AMC – at least for now. "The Court is not swayed by Defendants' argument that, absent…

The coronavirus pandemic may have delayed a new season of The Walking Dead, but the $300 million legal deathmatch over the zombie apocalypse series shows no signs of giving up the ghost. Finally heading towards a jury trial in April 2021, CAA and ex-TWD showrunner Frank Darabont's long-simmering profits participation…

In a decision that may prove prophetic for Frank Darabont and CAA's long-fought $300 million The Walking Dead profit-participation battle against AMC, the cabler just won a major victory that could prove a death knell to Robert Kirkman and other executive producers’ own legal actions against it. After a delay of…