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The Walking Dead comic book series is giving up the ghost. Just seven issues shy of No. 200, and without fanfare or warning, the bestselling monthly series from Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment will conclude with the special expanded issue that reaches stores on Wednesday. It’s an abrupt death for a…

Skybound Entertainment and Universal Pictures said Tuesday they are developing Oblivion Song, a movie based on Robert Kirkman and Lorenzo De Felici’s sci-fi comic book series. Sean O'Keefe, who penned the upcoming Peter Berg-Mark Wahlberg pic Wonderland, will write the script. Published by Skybound and Image Comics, Ob…

SPOILER ALERT: This article includes key revelations from issue No. 192 of The Walking Dead, which goes on sale this week.  Ex-lawman Rick Grimes has been M.I.A. on AMC’s The Walking Dead since last November (when star Andrew Lincoln left the powerhouse series to focus on the upcoming tie-in feature film trilogy) but…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of tonight's Season 9 penultimate episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead. "We’ve known for years that this moment would come eventually, and it didn’t feel right to wait past this season," says The Walking Dead executive producer Angela Kang of the killing of 10 characters on the…

Less than two months after AMC and Fear The Walking Dead producers were burned in their desire to see Melvin Smith's copyright lawsuit dismissed, both sides have struck a deal. “Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41, Plaintiff Melvin William Smith, Jr., on the one hand, and Defendants AMC Networks Inc., AMC…

Fans of zombie apocalypse movies, comics and television series could get an in-depth probe into the genre now that AMC has failed in its attempt to get a copyright lawsuit again Fear The Walking Dead dismissed. “AMC Defendants' request for judicial notice that certain concepts are generic further demonstrates that…

Steven Yeun and J.K. Simmons have been set to lead an A-list voice cast of Invincible, Amazon Prime Video’s eight-episode animated series adapting Robert Kirkman’s comic book series. Amazon greenlighted the hourlong series last June  and is now planning to premiere it globally in 2020. The streaming service said today…

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Kirkman's Skybound Entertainment has lined up its latest TV project – an adaptation of Korean feature film The Villainess. Skybound Entertainment, which is behind series including The Walking Dead and its spin-off Fear the Walking Dead, has struck a deal with Next Entertainment World's Contents Panda…

Nearly five years after former The Walking Dead showrunner Frank Darabont and CAA went after AMC for profits from the zombie apocalypse series, it seems almost certain today that the more than $300 million matter is going to trial – in late 2019, at the earliest. After a wait of over a year, at least one other lawsuit…

Robert Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment is expanding its executive ranks, with the hires of Candisse Williamson as SVP, Business and Legal Affairs, and Joey Stern as Brand Manager of Skybound Insiders, an online community for dedicated fans to engage with Skybound and one another, as well as receive exclusive content…

EXCLUSIVE: The Walking Dead wrapped up the first half of its ninth season just a couple of days ago, but the man behind the comic that the AMC series is based on has a brand new 5 Year plan. Robert Kirkman's Skybound Entertainment has inked an agreement with Entertainment One for the series based on an idea by the TWD…

Three days after lawyers for CAA and former The Walking Dead showunner Frank Darabont went after AMC for a series of supposedly vital documents in their long-running multimillion-dollar lawsuits, the latest dust-up has settled – until the next time. “We are happy to inform the Court that, while we do not agree that…