E135 - Episode 135: AMC's $120M Walking Dead Settlement

AMC Global Media has settled the Walking Dead profit participation lawsuit brought by creator Robert Kirkman and fellow producers Gale Anne Hurd, Glen Mazzara, David Alpert, and Charles Eglee for $120 million — $85 million paid this month, $35 million next year as an advance against future participation rights. The settlement, reached September 4, closes a lawsuit filed in 2022 over how AMC calculates and distributes profits from the original series and its spinoff, Fear the Walking Dead. Combined with the $200 million Darabont/CAA settlement in 2021, AMC has now paid $320 million to resolve Walking Dead profit disputes — against a franchise it just licensed to Netflix for...