Tripp Vinson Movie Updates

After directing Devil’s Due for 20th Century Fox, the filmmaking collective known as Radio Silence have signed on to direct the low-budget genre film FAMILY RITUAL for Fox Searchlight, the Tracking Board has exclusively learned.

Amblin Partners just won an auction for Ruthless, a female-driven action spec script by John Swetnam.

The game that has over 1 billion downloads will be adapted into a live-action family comedy.

The story is a revisionist take that adds sister Rose Red into the Snow White tale.

Disney is continuing its push into live-action fairy tales, closing a deal for a feature project centering on Prince Charming.

Lotus Entertainment has acquired the spec script Descendant by Jeff Buhler (The Midnight Meat Train) from Vinson Films.

Universal has acquired the rights to remake the 2007 anime toon Vexille with Hercules: The Thracian Wars scribe Evan Spiliotopoulos penning the script.

Greg Erb and Jason Oremland have been hired to rewrite Cryptozoologists for New Line Cinema.

Journey 2 doesn’t hit theaters until Feb. 10, but the movie tested well over the weekend, and New Line has attached the film’s team to Journey 3 – if there is such a movie – TheWrap has learned.

Sony is the latest studio to jump into the black ops game, picking up Shadow Runner, an original thriller with Chris Hemsworth attached to star.

CBS Films has pre-emptively picked up Inside the Machine, a spec thriller from Marc Maurino. Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson of Contrafilm are producing.