New Conjuring & Evil Dead Movies Get Updates

New updates have emerged regarding the future of The Conjuring and Evil Dead franchises.

James Wan’s The Conjuring premiered in movie theaters in 2013. It not only spawned two direct sequels — 2016’s The Conjuring 2 and 2021’s The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It — but also a whole shared universe that further includes 2014’s Annabelle, 2017’s Annabelle: Creation, 2018’s The Nun, and 2023’s The Nun II.

A fourth Conjuring movie, The Conjuring: Last Rites, is now in the works and is currently dated for September 5, 2025.

Evil Dead, meanwhile, is a separate horror franchise created by Sam Raimi that began in 1981 with The Evil Dead. That movie spawned two sequels, 1987’s Evil Dead II and 1993’s Army of Darkness, as well as a television series, Ash vs Evil Dead, all of which starred Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams.

Fede Álvarez then made an Evil Dead reboot (which still has loose connections to the original movies) in 2013, which was followed by the franchise’s fifth film, 2023’s Evil Dead Rise.

What are the new Conjuring and Evil Dead updates?

Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, New Line Cinema CCO’s Richard Brener provided an update about The Conjuring: Last Rights and the continuation of the franchise beyond that.

“[The Conjuring: Last Rites] testing through the roof and we’re only at the director’s cut, the 10-week part of the movie where you’re normally very, very scared about the status of your film,” he said. “We’re very early in the process, have very preliminary visual effects, but it’s already through the roof. So while this is last of what we call phase one, we are hopeful that we can make more.”

Noting that “phase two is TBD” when it comes to how The Conjuring franchise continues, Brener further said, “We have a lot of great stuff in the works, and we’re also making our second Evil Dead movie [Evil Dead Burn] with plans for a third as well. But there are also new fresh ones that you haven’t heard of that we believe, in success, we’ll have multiple installments.”

Source: Comingsoon.net