By Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer A New York judge on Monday denied AMC’s motion to throw out one of two profit-participation lawsuits filed by “The Walking Dead” creator Frank Darabont, and set a trial on the long-running case for November.
Darabont — who was fired after the first season of the show, back in July 2011 — has filed two lawsuits accusing AMC of shorting him out of hundreds of millions of dollars in profits.
The first suit, filed in 2013, argues that AMC owes him $280 million. Darabont and his co-plaintiff, CAA, filed a second lawsuit in 2018, alleging that further evidence had shown that AMC owed him at least $10 million more.
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