New updates have emerged concerning the way forward for The Conjuring and Evil Dead franchises.
James Wan’s The Conjuring premiered in film theaters in 2013. It not solely spawned two direct sequels — 2016’s The Conjuring 2 and 2021’s The Conjuring: The Satan Made Me Do It — but additionally a whole shared universe that additional contains 2014’s Annabelle, 2017’s Annabelle: Creation, 2018’s The Nun, and 2023’s The Nun II.
A fourth Conjuring film, The Conjuring: Last Rites, is now within the works and is presently dated for September 5, 2025.
Evil Useless, in the meantime, is a separate horror franchise created by Sam Raimi that started in 1981 with The Evil Useless. That film spawned two sequels, 1987’s Evil Useless II and 1993’s Military of Darkness, in addition to a tv collection, Ash vs Evil Useless, all of which starred Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams.
Fede Álvarez then made an Evil Useless reboot (which nonetheless has unfastened connections to the unique motion pictures) in 2013, which was adopted by the franchise’s fifth movie, 2023’s Evil Useless Rise.
What are the brand new Conjuring and Evil Useless updates?
Talking with The Hollywood Reporter, New Line Cinema CCO’s Richard Brener offered an replace about The Conjuring: Final Rights and the continuation of the franchise past that.
“[The Conjuring: Last Rites] testing by way of the roof and we’re solely on the director’s minimize, the 10-week a part of the film the place you’re usually very, very scared concerning the standing of your movie,” he mentioned. “We’re very early within the course of, have very preliminary visible results, but it surely’s already by way of the roof. So whereas that is final of what we name part one, we’re hopeful that we will make extra.”
Noting that “part two is TBD” on the subject of how The Conjuring franchise continues, Brener additional mentioned, “We have now plenty of nice stuff within the works, and we’re additionally making our second Evil Useless film [Evil Dead Burn] with plans for a 3rd as properly. However there are additionally new recent ones that you simply haven’t heard of that we imagine, in success, we’ll have a number of installments.”
