$200 million to Frank Darabont
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Wow
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/amc-darabont-walking-dead-settlement-1234983716/
The long-running legal battle over Frank Darabont’s profits from The Walking Dead has come to an end, with AMC Networks making a nine-figure payout to the former showrunner and his agency, CAA.
Darabont first sued in 2013, and the battle eventually spawned a spinoff in 2018. He and CAA claim the network had used shady accounting to short them on profits. The fight largely examined the dealmaking behind AMC’s hit and centered on how to calculate its net profits.
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Studios and networks have long used shady accounting practices. Same thing in the recording industry....
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Studios and networks have long used shady accounting practices. Same thing in the recording industry....
@jolly said in $200 million to Frank Darabont:
Same thing in the recording industry....
A conversation I had with my singer friend in New Orleans:
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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My son worked at the Hard Rock among other venues in N'awlins and in the casinos around Biloxi, so he knew some of the guys who were in the music scene down there.
Most of the guys had part-time jobs, or they would have starved.
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@jolly said in $200 million to Frank Darabont:
Same thing in the recording industry....
A conversation I had with my singer friend in New Orleans:
@george-k said in $200 million to Frank Darabont:
@jolly said in $200 million to Frank Darabont:
Same thing in the recording industry....
A conversation I had with my singer friend in New Orleans:
Dickpicknic?
The Brad
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@george-k said in $200 million to Frank Darabont:
@jolly said in $200 million to Frank Darabont:
Same thing in the recording industry....
A conversation I had with my singer friend in New Orleans:
Dickpicknic?
@lufins-dad said in $200 million to Frank Darabont:
@george-k said in $200 million to Frank Darabont:
@jolly said in $200 million to Frank Darabont:
Same thing in the recording industry....
A conversation I had with my singer friend in New Orleans:
Dickpicknic?
This one time in band camp...
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My son worked at the Hard Rock among other venues in N'awlins and in the casinos around Biloxi, so he knew some of the guys who were in the music scene down there.
Most of the guys had part-time jobs, or they would have starved.
@jolly said in $200 million to Frank Darabont:
Most of the guys had part-time jobs, or they would have starved.
Writing's the same way. When you've signed a deal with a publisher, you'll know you've arrived!*
*They'll probably try you out on eBooks before making a print commitment, and see how sales do in oh, about 10 days. You have 10 days to make a mark on their analytics and then you'll basically be dropped. Oh and you better be prepared to do an assload of social marketing on your end, that's going to be written in the agreement.
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@george-k said in $200 million to Frank Darabont:
@jolly said in $200 million to Frank Darabont:
Same thing in the recording industry....
A conversation I had with my singer friend in New Orleans:
Dickpicknic?
@lufins-dad said in $200 million to Frank Darabont:
Dickpicknic?
I hadn't even seen that! I'll have to ask her who that is!
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@aqua-letifer said in $200 million to Frank Darabont:
You have 10 days to make a mark on their analytics and then you'll basically be dropped.
But wouldn't such a practice shortchange the publisher, too?
Unless, what, it's a cheap ambulance chaser publisher, which floats a ton of over-the-transom stuff to mine the few good ones?
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@aqua-letifer said in $200 million to Frank Darabont:
You have 10 days to make a mark on their analytics and then you'll basically be dropped.
But wouldn't such a practice shortchange the publisher, too?
Unless, what, it's a cheap ambulance chaser publisher, which floats a ton of over-the-transom stuff to mine the few good ones?
@catseye3 said in $200 million to Frank Darabont:
@aqua-letifer said in $200 million to Frank Darabont:
You have 10 days to make a mark on their analytics and then you'll basically be dropped.
But wouldn't such a practice shortchange the publisher, too?
Unless, what, it's a cheap ambulance chaser publisher, which floats a ton of over-the-transom stuff to mine the few good ones?
Not in the slightest. Everyone's clamoring for a book deal and they have real-time sales analytics. Publishers no longer have to risk spending time with slow burns that might pick up momentum over time; give the book a week to ten days and if it doesn't catch fire, promote the next one up and see how it does instead.
It also really helps if you're pretty. Gives people something to click on. But if you're not, an already-substantial social media presence will do nicely.
Quite obviously this prevents many kinds of great titles to ever see the light of day, but publishers aren't in the literature business, they're in the business of making money.
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@lufins-dad said in $200 million to Frank Darabont:
Dickpicknic?
I hadn't even seen that! I'll have to ask her who that is!
@george-k said in $200 million to Frank Darabont:
@lufins-dad said in $200 million to Frank Darabont:
Dickpicknic?
I hadn't even seen that! I'll have to ask her who that is!
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If I had aspirations to become a Twitter troll, that would absolutely be my handle.
