Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterA judge on Wednesday handed a significant win to AMC Networks in its long-running battle over profits from “The Walking Dead.”Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Daniel J.
Buckley held that the cable network was entitled to define “modified adjusted gross receipts” under the terms of its contracts with profit participants.Comic creator Robert Kirkman filed the suit in 2017, along with producers Gale Anne Hurd, Glen Mazzara and David Alpert.
The suit accused the network of lowballing the fee to license the show from its production arm, AMC Studios.The suit followed a similar claim from the show’s creator, Frank Darabont, who is seeking nearly $300 million in unpaid profits in a suit in New York.
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