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In the build-up to the release of Evil Dead Rise (read our review right Here) in 2023, Evil Dead franchise rights holders Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, and Rob Tapert let it be known that they were already looking forward to producing more entries in the series, with Campbell revealing they were hoping to make a new sequel / spin-off every two or three years. Last year, they proved their commitment to this idea by hiring Sébastien Vaniček, who made his feature directorial debut on the French horror film Vermin, a.k.a. Infested, to write and direct a new installment in the franchise. And now the project has a cast member: Deadline reports that Souheila Yacoub, a Swiss former rhythmic gymnast who won the Miss Suisse Romande beauty pageant before getting her acting career started, has signed on to star in the film. We had previously heard that this movie would be...

Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema will release the next installment in the Evil Dead franchise domestically on July 24, 2026. Dune: Part Two actress Souheila Yacoub will star.

New Line Cinema and Sony Pictures are co-financing the sequel after the success of Evil Dead Rise.

Souheila Yacoub

Sébastien Vaniček, who co-wrote the screenplay with Florent Bernard, has been tapped to direct, as we were first to report.

Pic will be produced by longtime franchise producer Rob Tapert and series creator and horror icon Sam Raimi. Romel Adam, Jose Canas, and Lee Cronin will executive produce alongside cult legend “Ash” Bruce Campbell.

New Line will distribute the film domestically through Warner Bros. Pictures on July 24, 2026. Sony will distribute internationally with StudioCanal distributing in the UK and Metropolitan distributing in France.

Evil Dead Rise, which was originally destined to go to HBO Max, was pivoted to a theatrical release in 2023, and minted $147 million worldwide,...

Lily Collins’ Emily Cooper will be living the dolce vita in Rome with her Italian beau Marcello in the much-anticipated fifth season of Netflix’s “Emily in Paris.” Or at least some of it. The new season of hit romantic comedy created by Darren Star will kick off production this May in Rome before moving to Paris later in the summer.

Slated to premiere later this year on Netflix, Season 5 is expected to give Emily (Lily Collins) an embarrassment of riches when it comes to her love life, bringing back her two one-and-off boyfriends, the sexy French chef, Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) and dashing Brit, Alfie (Lucien Laviscount), alongside her new Italian love interest, Marcello (Eugenio Franceschini).

While the production will be partly set in Rome, the key French cast will also return, notably Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu who plays Collins’ chic and nonchalant boss Sylvie Grateau, Samuel Arnold (Julien), Bruno Gouery (Luc...

Exclusive: French actor Lucas Bravo has signed with Anonymous Content for representation.

Bravo is best known for his lead role in Netflix’s Emily in Paris. Since Season 1 he has played Gabriel, a chef and on-again, off-again love interest of the show’s titular character. The romantic dramedy was renewed for a fifth season following Season 4 Part 2, which dropped in September.

Bravo appeared in last season’s finale and is currently being courted to return for Season 5 of the tentpole show, which also stars Lily Collins as the titular Emily Cooper and Ashley Park as Emily’s best friend Mindy Chen. Deadline exclusively reported the news that Lucien Laviscount, another star in Emily’s love life, will return as a series regular next season.

Bravo has worked mainly in his native France for the past few years, most recently starring in Melanie Laurent’s 2024 feature directorial debut Sulak (aka Freedom...

2024 was “a good year for movies” (whatever that means), but the fact is that it could have been an even better one had some of the best films we saw on the festival circuit been released in the United States.

In some cases, it’s easy to understand why distributors balked at these titles. For example: There’s probably not a lot of money in a five-and-a-half-hour documentary about the last independent TV station in Russia, riveting as it might be to watch. And it’s no great mystery why American companies have stayed away from the historic and vital “No Other Land,” even as it continues to sweep critics awards on its march to a guaranteed nomination for Best Documentary — or the most damning Oscar snub of all time.

In other cases — as with Noémie Merlant’s riotous “The Balconettes,” and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s bracing crime thriller “Cloud” — the...

Read all of Deadline’s Cannes Film Festival reviews below, including Palme d’Or winner Anora.

The New York-set romantic dramedy charts the story of a stripper from Brooklyn who transforms into a modern Cinderella when she meets the son of a Russian oligarch.

The film, playing in the official Competition three years after Baker’s success in Cannes with the Simon Rex-starring Red Rocket, scored a 10-minute ovation earlier this week. It was one of a number of critically praised films this edition. Check out all our reviews below.

All We Imagine as Light ‘All We Imagine as Light’

Section: Competition

Director: Payal Kapadia

Cast: Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya KAdam, Hridhu Haroon

Deadline’s takeaway: And at a time when so much attention is being paid to the lives of the haves and the have-nots amid such financial imbalance worldwide, it’s refreshing to see the spotlight...

Noemie Merlant’s sophomore feature “The Balconettes” plays as a raunchy horror-comedy with a greater social conscience. The film follows three roommates – an actress, played by Merlant, a camgirl played by “Dune: Part Two” breakout Souheila Yacoub and a frustrated writer played Sanda Condreanu – who are initially infatuated and eventually repelled by a lothario neighbor from across the yard. Exploring questions of coercion and consent with a healthy dose of blood and guts, “The Balconettes” wants to entertain and energize in equal measure.

Variety spoke with the filmmaker ahead of her film’s world premiere in Cannes.

How did this film come about?

Four years ago, I found myself escaping from a daily life that was suffocating. I went to live with women, with friends of mine, including Sanda Codreanu, who stars in the film. This was the first time I’d lived with other women, and the first time...