‘Walking Dead’ Creator Robert Kirkman & AMC Call Semi-Truce In Profits Battle Suit Ahead Of Trial

deadline.com:

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 have agreed to resolve through confidential arbitration the remaining claims in this lawsuit that were scheduled for a February 2023 trial,” said reps for Kirkman, fellow TWD EPs and AMC to Deadline today after a motion to dismiss was filed in LA Superior Court Monday (read the short motion here).

Which is a succinct way of saying this isn’t over, but going away. Having said that, causes of action in Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd and company’s original 2017 lawsuit that were tossed or struck last year could find new legal life, I hear.

ALSO, while this aspect of the potentially big buck profits battle has gone behind closed doors and is TBD, the $200 million suit filed last November by Kirkman, Hurd and the other core TWD EPs over modified adjusted gross receipts is still alive and kicking.

In many ways, this dismissal filing from Kirkman’s Sullivan & Triggs lawyers and the subsequent arbitration is a bit of a clean up exercise on audit claims.