Bleecker Street’s Leave No Trace took home the movie prize for best adapted screenplay and Russell T Davies and author John Preston won the TV award for BBC/Amazon’s A Very English Scandal tonight at the 31st annual USC Scripter Awards. The awards honor the authors of printed works alongside the screenwriters who…

Ben Foster is pacing Manhattan trying to ignore the clamor. "Sorry about all the sirens!" he groans apologetically. He's just gotten home from starring as 14th Century general Jan Žižka in the biopic Medieval, hyped as Czechoslovakia's biggest blockbuster to date, and Foster just wanted to stroll around to appreciate…

In 2010, Debra Granik made Winter's Bone, the film that first showcased the skill of Jennifer Lawrence, who would be Oscar-nominated for her breakthrough performance. Granik returns to narrative eight years on with Leave No Trace, which tells the story of Will and Tom, a father and daughter living an unconventional…

Two of Bleecker Street’s awards season contenders, Disobedience and Leave No Trace, show the wear and tear of humanity against its environment. Sebastian Lelio’s Disobedience follows two lesbian lovers played by Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams who rekindle their romance from their teenage years in the face of the…

 WHO Thomasin McKenzie Age: 18 Hometown: Wellington, New Zealand  WHAT In Debra Granik's Leave No Trace, McKenzie is Tom, daughter to Ben Foster's PTSD-affected Will. Unable to cope with society, Will has carved out a subsistence off-grid life with Tom in wooded parkland outside of Portland, Oregon, until authorities…

Bleecker Street’s Leave No Trace follows a military vet, Will (Ben Foster), and his daughter Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), who have lived off the grid for years in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Their lives are turned upside down when they are put into social services and live in conventional housing and…

Will this be the year of the recessive movie male? It's much too early to tell with any certainty, as it only takes a few powerful contenders to set what seems to be a mood for an awards season. In the last round, it only became clear with the Producers Guild of America nominations in early January that, Dunkirk and Da…

Topic, the unit of First Look Media known for producing films like Leave No Trace and multi-platform projects from talent such as Wyatt Cenac, has picked Netflix alum Ryan Chanatry as general manager of Topic.com. Chanatry will run the visual storytelling platform known for politically and socially oriented web series…

Filmmaker Debra Granik made a splash at the start of this decade with Winter's Bone and she finally returns to theaters with her Sundance debut Leave No Trace with Ben Foster and Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie. Bleecker Street hopes to replicate the box office success of Granik's previous feature, which helped catapult…

Making its international premiere in Directors’ Fortnight, Debra Granik's acclaimed Sundance title Leave No Trace left many veteran festivalgoers wondering why so many inferior films had managed to leapfrog it into the Official Selection. Told with great narrative economy, and featuring two sublime performances, the…

Debra Granik likes to take her time. Since her first, award-winning short, Snake Feed, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998, the 55-year-old director has made just three features and a doc in the intervening 20 years. Indeed, in the gap between her latest movie and the last, Winter's Bone, Granik has seen…

EXCLUSIVE: Leave No Trace was acquired by Bleecker Street at Sundance this year, and now we are getting a first-look trailer for the film that stars Ben Foster and Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie. Directed by Debra Granik (Winter’s Bone) the film was adapted by Granik and Anne Rosellini from the Peter Rock novel My Abandonm…