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Robert Kirkman's Skybound Entertainment hopes that it's going to find ratings and critical "life" on other planets, optioning award-winning science fiction author Frederik Pohl's 1977 novel Gateway for development as a TV series The novel is the first in a series of six books in Pohl's "Heechee Saga" that chronicles the history of an alien[...]

Looks like comics fans will be getting Robert Kirkman's six-part examination of the stories, people and events that transformed the comic book industry as an early holiday present AMC Visionaries: Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics will premiere on AMC as a two-night television event starting on Sunday, November 12th at 11 p.m ET, followed[...]

I've really enjoyed the character work Robert Kirkman has put into him the last couple years; it really changed my mind on the character all together On the show, not so much While I enjoy Jeffery Dean Morgan, this is the era of the character I don't care for at all However, they nailed the[...]

Following up on a number of recent moves that included signing The Walking Dead executive producer Robert Kirkman to an exclusive creative deal, Amazon Studios has signed an overall deal with Stranger Things writer/producer Justin Doble in which he will develop genre projects exclusively for Amazon Prime Video. Amazon Studios' Head of Event Series Sharon Tal Yguado[...]

But Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman has surpassed all of those by achieving the highest honor in all of comics: a Ted Cruz masturbation joke on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. On a recent episode of the Comedy Central program, host Noah was talking about Ted Cruz's recent social media Twitter snafu wherein the Senator's Twitter[...]

Check out what we learned from AMC's The Walking Dead Season 8 Preview Special, which featured Jeffrey Dean Morgan, showrunner Scott M. Gimple, and more.

In honor of the season premiere (and the show's 100th episode), AMC has planned season marathons, virtual reality games with Mountain Dew, a pre-season special schedule airing before the mid-season premiere of Fear The Walking Dead, and a major presence yet again at this year's New York Comic Con (NYCC). Looks like you can now add[...]

But with Rick leading the Alexandrian forces, Maggie leading the Hilltop, and King Ezekiel leading the Kingdom — Negan and the Saviors' grip on this world may finally be coming to an end." The Walking Dead stars Lincoln, Morgan, Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon), Lauren Cohan (Maggie Greene), Danai Gurira (Michonne), Melissa McBride (Carol Peletier), Lennie James (Morgan Jones), Seth Gilliam (Father Gabriel Stokes), Alanna Masterson (Tara Chambler), Khary Payton (King Ezekiel), and Chandler Riggs (Carl[...]

Recovering both emotionally and physically, Strand (Colman Domingo) has his sights set on harnessing the new world's currency, and Ofelia's (Mercedes Mason) captivity will test her ability to survive and see if she can muster the savagery of her father." Fear the Walking Dead includes Dickens, Frank Dillane, Daniel Sharman, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Mercedes Mason, and Ruben Blades; and is executive-produced by Dave[...]

The on-again/off-again bromance between Walking Dead mogul Robert Kirkman and comics legend Sir Robert Liefeld is on again, and in a big way In an Instagram post Tuesday, Liefeld revealed the details of a very special gift Kirkman gave him. "My buddy Robert Kirkman called me up and said you need to come up to my[...]

Deal? ●  Walking Dead Producers Take AMC Lawsuit To The Supreme Court Of New York I wrote up a post (just before lawsuit news broke) on Robert Kirkman going on Twitter to reassure fans that he was still working with AMC on The Walking Dead, Fear The Walking Dead, and other projects that were in place before[...]

You might even be able to mention by name Robert Kirkman, writer and co-creator of the book and executive producer of the AMC series But did you know the company behind the Walking Dead franchise, is flipping the script on how the entertainment industry works with, and more importantly, for creators? Skybound Entertainment, a multi-platform[...]

The California lawsuit was filed by Hurd and Alpert along with Glen Mazarra and Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman. Like yesterday's lawsuit, and like former showrunner Frank Darabont's long-running lawsuit, the new suit alleges AMC "exploited their vertically integrated corporate structure to combine both the production and the exhibition of TWD, which allowed AMC to keep[...]

Just days after Robert Kirkman's Skybound Entertainment quit its first look deal with AMC and moved to Amazon Prime, the Walking Dead creator, along with producers Glen Mazzara, David Alpert, and Gale Anne Hurd have filed a lawsuit against AMC for breach of contract. Similarly to the long-running lawsuit against AMC by original showrunner Frank Darabont,[...]

When it was announced last week that Robert Kirkman and Skybound Entertainment had ended its long-term deal with AMC Networks and signed-on to a two-year deal with Amazon Prime, there was some concern as to how the deal would impact Kirkman's current AMC programming slate The creator of The Walking Dead, Fear The Walking Dead[...]