diff --git a/src/ydata_profiling/profile_report.py b/src/ydata_profiling/profile_report.py
index a7d6d9134..7c16b3403 100644
--- a/src/ydata_profiling/profile_report.py
+++ b/src/ydata_profiling/profile_report.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 with warnings.catch_warnings():
     warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
-    import pkg_resources
+    from importlib.metadata import version
 
 if not is_pyspark_installed():
     from typing import TypeVar
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ def to_file(self, output_file: Union[str, Path], silent: bool = True) -> None:
         """
         with warnings.catch_warnings():
             warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
-            pillow_version = pkg_resources.get_distribution("Pillow").version
+            pillow_version = version("Pillow")
         version_tuple = tuple(map(int, pillow_version.split(".")))
         if version_tuple < (9, 5, 0):
             warnings.warn(