Lee Cronin: Last News

William Earl This post contains spoilers for “Evil Dead Rise.” “Evil Dead Rise” director Lee Cronin has made his enthusiasm for the horror franchise known over the course of the past weeks, with each interview featuring him taking delight in recounting the amount of gore and severed limbs he had to wrangle on set. It’s no surprise that when asked about the future of the franchise, Cronin is full of ideas. In a conversation with Variety, Cronin breaks down our biggest burning questions after seeing “Rise.” Do you have any ideas for sequels? I certainly do. I didn’t want to bait it for sequels necessarily, even though the ending could be interpreted that way. But the ending for me was closing the loop back to the beginning. The way the story is told, I’ve got four places I’d like to look at in terms of where to go… I’m excited for the potential of what could be next and and really hope that I can be involved in in future chapters.

Jack Reynor has joined the cast of an upcoming remake of The Mummy!

EXCLUSIVE: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy has cast Jack Reynor as the Atomic Monster/Blumhouse production for New Line is set to begin filming in Ireland and Spain. Cronin’s Doppelgängers banner is also producing. I’m told Reynor is not getting wrapped up in the title role.

EXCLUSIVE: Manager Jared Ceizler has joined Brillstein Entertainment Partners from MGMT Entertainment.

The Mummy franchise is in the works and will be helmed by Evil Dead Rise‘s Lee Cronin.Per The Hollywood Reporter, Cronin will write and direct the upcoming film, which has yet to receive a title but has scored an April 17, 2026 release date. A cast has yet to be attached to the film.Cronin said of the upcoming reboot in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter: “This will be unlike any Mummy movie you ever laid eyeballs on before.

Buzzy genre filmmaker Lee Cronin (Evil Dead Rise) will write and direct The Mummy, a new film in the horror subgenre for New Line, Deadline has confirmed.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Blumhouse and Atomic Monster, the newly converged horror producers, will unwrap yet another iconic movie monster. “The Mummy” is coming from Lee Cronin, director of the campy and cult-approved “Evil Dead Rise.” Cronin will write and direct the project, which has been dated for April 17, 2026 by New Line Cinema. “This will be unlike any Mummy movie you ever laid eyeballs on before.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Atomic Monster and Blumhouse, the recently-combined genre giants, will produce a new film from “Evil Dead Rise” director Lee Cronin at New Line Cinema.Cronin will write and direct the top secret project, one that has been suggested will remain in his horror wheelhouse. The Irish filmmaker will also produce the project through his label Doppelgängers.New Line, a Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group label, has dated the film for an April 2026 release.

Lydia Bright has shared the first photos with her new man as she confirms "you are no longer my secret lover".The Only Way Is Essex star, 33, managed to keep her romance with Ben Davies under wraps for an impressive six months and their new loved-up photos have delighted fans, leaving them saying the same thing. Since joining the cast of TOWIE in 2010, Lydia's love life has often been in the spotlight, from her on-off relationship with James 'Arg' Argent to her ex-boyfriend Lee Cronin, with whom she shares her four year old daughter, Loretta.

Sam Raimi has handpicked another heir apparent to the “Evil Dead” franchise. Deadline reports that “The Last Stop In Yuma County” director Francis Galluppi follows in the footsteps of Fede Álvarez and Lee Cronin as the next up-and-comer to take the reins on the long-running horror series.

EXCLUSIVE: Francis Galluppi (The Last Stop in Yuma County) has been tapped to write and direct a new Evil Dead movie for Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert’s Ghost House Pictures, sources tell Deadline.

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Lydia Bright has responded to social media users after being mum-shamed for allowing her young daughter to run on a sofa while at an event. Originally, the 32 year old, who recently opened up about feeling “heartbroken” during her pregnancy, took to Instagram to share a clip of three year old Loretta running across an L-shaped sofa while at an event, explaining that the little one was feeling “energised” after taking a nap. Captioning the adorable clip, The Only Way Is Essex star wrote: “Yes my kid is always that kid, but instead of trying to tame her wonderful, wild ways, I let her be her and happy.

J. Kim Murphy “Evil Dead Rise” might not be able to vanquish the soon-to-three-peat box office champion “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” but the horror entry is still chainsawing off its own solid opening on domestic charts. The Warner Bros. release earned $10.3 million from 3,402 locations on Friday, a figure that includes $2.5 million in previews. It’s an auspicious start for the horror entry, which now has a strong chance of outperforming its projections, which had pegged the film with a $15 million to $20 million debut heading into the weekend. That’s not too shabby of a haul for a production originally slated to release directly on HBO Max. “Evil Dead Rise” is the fifth installment in Warner Bros. and New Line’s outlandish horror franchise, as well as the first in 10 years. “Rise” is tracking slightly behind its predecessor, which scored an $11.8 million opening day in April 2013, on its way to a $25.7 million debut.

the “Evil Dead” franchise know the drill — get some folks out to a cabin in the woods, have them stumble onto an ominous book of spells, gory demonic mayhem ensues. With “Evil Dead Rise,” however, the fifth installment in the series created by Sam Raimi, director Lee Cronin set out to carve a different path. “I knew I wanted it to be family.

William Earl Lee Cronin is very particular about blood. Cronin, the Irish writer and director of “Evil Dead Rise,” the fifth feature installment in the cult horror series, lights up when discussing gore on set. “We used 6,500 liters [1,717 gallons] of blood on the movie,” he said. “That is real, sticky, cooked movie blood. We had to hire out this industrial kitchen to cook the blood and keep it fresh, be able to heat it up, because characters are covered in it. There was a lot of management of liquid in this movie. I wanted blood to be a character, so it was important we got the viscosity and look just right.”

TOWIE star Lydia Bright has reflected on how she felt "heartbroken" when she was pregnant for the first time, as well as being single. Lydia, 32, shares her three year old daughter with ex-boyfriend Lee Cronin, and they have co-parented since they parted ways as a romantic couple when Lydia was 11 weeks pregnant. Looking back on the time, Lydia said to Kate Ferdinand on her podcast Blended: "Doing pregnancy alone was really tough." The mum of one went on: "It was a very emotional time when I was pregnant because I was scared," before apologising to Kate, 31, that she was starting to cry.

Former TOWIE star Lydia Bright has taken to Instagram to proudly show off the results of her recent facial surgery, having gone under the knife to remove a lump beside her eye.The reality TV favourite, 32, last night posted a candid selfie to her Instagram story, showing off the last remaining stitches and the small amount of bruising left following her operation. Lydia captioned the photo: "One week post-op, I'm starting to get my cheekbones back. I can't apply skincare or wear makeup at the moment, it frees up time".The blonde beauty added: "So this morning, I made a smoothie, took a few selfies, and I thought I am actually going to walk to the tube station today rather than jumping in an Uber...".

Lee Cronin’s “Evil Dead Rise” calls to mind those items we used to read before every “Die Hard” sequel, about how each had begun its life as a completely different story having nothing to do with “Die Hard” that was hastily re-written into another John McClane movie. That is not, as far as I know, the origin story of this “Evil Dead” sequel.

Joe Leydon Film Critic Just a skosh more than a decade after Fede Alvarez’s carnage-crammed “Evil Dead” reboot jump-started the horror franchise spawned by Sam Raimi’s low-budget 1981 cult favorite, writer-director Lee Cronin has delivered his own imaginatively scary take on the “Book of the Dead” mythos with “Evil Dead Rise.” A kinda-sorta sequel, it offers incontrovertible evidence that predatory and possessive bogeymen are just as frightful when their hunting ground shifts from a cabin in a dark corner of the woods to a gone-to-seed apartment building in downtown Los Angeles.    Said building — aptly described by one holdout resident as a “condemned dump” — just happens to have been built on the site of a long-closed bank that evidently shuttered before certain mystical merchandise could be retrieved from its vault. Specifically, we’re talking about yet another Book of the Dead: an ancient tome with a binding of human skin that can serve as an entryway for savage supernatural creatures eager to infect and forage in our world. This particular edition was locked away along with some 1923-era vinyl recordings of a clergyman’s warnings about the dangers of even glancing between the covers. Trouble is, all it takes is an earthquake, and a curious adolescent living with his family several stories above the buried material, for all hell to break loose.

A post-screening Q&A for the Evil Dead Rise briefly turned into a shouting match at SXSW Wednesday evening after the film’s executive producer Bruce Campbell clashed with a heckler in the audience.