This lead to a lawsuit when Raimi’s Renaissance Pictures sued Award Pictures over the latter’s plans for its production which was to be called Evil Dead 4: Consquences. A judge has ordered a block on the sequel, however.
Since the lawsuit was filed in May, THR says Award Pictures “failed to respond in court.” Apparently, the company’s financing fell through and it could not find the money to pay the lawyers to contest the lawsuit in the time alotted.
Per THR: “In preparing Evil Dead 4: Consequences, Award Pictures went to the trademark office and argued that since Rami’s first film came out in 1981, his company exhibited a lack of control over it, allowing it to be used as titles in 20 other motion pictures. Additionally, Award pointed to Raimi’s comment in a 2000 book that he would never do a sequel as proof that the Evil Dead trademark was abandoned.”
Alas, because Award could not get its shit together in court, a California judge has prevented the company from using the trademark to avoid confusing matters when the Raimi-produced Evil Dead remake hits next year.
Probably for the best, eh?
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