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A former showrunner on one of AMC\u2019s biggest zombie apocalypse shows is accusing the cable channel of ripping him off for tens of millions in profits.<\/p>\n
Hold on \u2026If you feel you\u2019ve heard this before, you have.<\/p>\n
More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n However, this time it\u2019s not Frank Darabont<\/a> or Glenn Mazzara making the pricey claims, nor is it the up and down<\/a> multi-pronged legal pursuits of Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, David Alpert or Charles Eglee. This time its Dave Erickson, and the Fear the Walking Dead <\/em>co-creator and Seasons 1-3 showrunner wants to see the money.<\/p>\n Quite a bit of it, with the definition of those exciting modified adjusted gross receipts playing a big role.<\/p>\n As a filing today in LA Superior Court by Kinsella Holley Iser Kump Steinsapir LLP\u2019s Aaron Liskin and Nick Soltman details of the accounting behind the hugely successful and long running FearTWD<\/em>:<\/p>\n The Series premiered in 2015. It wrapped in 2023. In between, it made hundreds of millions, if not billions<\/em>, of dollars for AMC. Yet as of the date of this filing, AMC Studios has not paid Erickson a single dollar in profits. And barring judicial intervention, it never will. Erickson\u2019s most recent profit participation statement shows a remarkable, almost unfathomable deficit of $185,254,991. Even more astounding than this paper deficit, despite AMC\u2019s assurances of equal treatment, Erickson\u2019s most recent profit participation statement indicates that at least $49 million in profit participation payments have already been paid to the other<\/em> profit participants on the Series.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n Noting that a previous filing by Robert Kirkman may actually put that figure at $67 million, the unnamed damages and court order seeking filing adds \u201cErickson brings this action to rectify AMC\u2019s egregious misconduct and to obtain the tens of millions of dollars in profits he is rightfully owed.\u201d<\/p>\n Tens of millions. No matter who you are or how successful in Hollywood you have been like current Mayor of Kingstown<\/em> EP Erickson, tens of millions is real money.<\/p>\n\n