EXCLUSIVE: For its first content acceleration program, Imagine Impact has set a diverse roster of established talent to mentor the first round of aspirants. The mentors will be the Oscar-winning Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black, sitcom vet and black-ish exec producer Stacy Traub, Burn Notice exec producer Ben Watkins,  T…

British Olympic diver Tom Daley, who recently had a baby with his husband, Milk writer Dustin Lance Black, is to front a documentary about surrogacy for BBC One. Daley is to present Surrogacy (w/t), produced by Gold Rush producer Raw Television. Having recently had a child through surrogacy, Daley will explore the…

Screenwriter and LGBTQ rights activist Dustin Lance Black (Milk, When We Rise) will receive the Writers Guild of America West's 2018 Valentine Davies Award in recognition for his civil and human rights efforts, which have positively impacted the LGBTQ community. He will be honored at the 2018 Writers Guild Awards West…

“I wanted to say, you can fight for your life, you can fight for your neighbor’s rights… and you can survive and thrive,” an impassioned Dustin Lance Black told a packed crowd at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys event at the DGA theater last month. Black was talking about ABC’s docu-drama When We Rise, which chronicles…

Debuting on February 27 and running for most of next week, ABC's miniseries When We Rise is an ambitious and ultimately too dense effort that seemingly forgot that less is often more. Still, as I also say in my video review above, the fact that a miniseries like this from Oscar-winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Bl…

ABC has had to re-schedule its LGBT miniseries When We Rise to make room for President Donald Trump. File this under “Ironic.” Earlier this month, ABC announced it would schedule its groundbreaking miniseries across four consecutive nights, for maximum impact: February 27-March 2, from 9-11 PM each night. But…

“If Donald Trump actually watches the show, he might like the show,” Dustin Lance Black told a dubious ballroom of TV critics and reporters at TCA about When We Rise, ABC's eight-hour miniseries about the gay rights movement. “I think a lot of people who voted for Donald Trump will love this show,” he said. “I don’t…

Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar-winning writer of the Harvey Milk biopic, was so moved by the message of tolerance in Lion, he wrote a guest column for Deadline. A Lion For Our Times I write this in gratitude. I hadn't been to an Academy screening since I landed in London nearly three years ago, so the invite to see Lion…

EXCLUSIVE: After only five months at William Morris Endeavor, filmmaker Dustin Lance Black is returning to Creative Artists Agency. Black scripted ABC's upcoming seven-part miniseries When We Rise, which follows a group of LGBT activists helping to pioneer the gay rights movement. He currently is adapting A. Scott…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed writer-producer-director Dustin Lance Black, who won the Original Screenplay Oscar in 2009 for penning Milk. He most recently created and wrote the upcoming seven-episode ABC event series When We Rise, about the gay rights movement. He will also direct the final two episodes, with Milk…

ABC is reassembling the team of the 2008 movie Milk for another project about the gay rights movement, eight-hour miniseries When We Rise. Milk director Gus Van Sant has joined the mini, written/executive produced by Milk writer Dustin Lance Black and executive produced by the film’s producer Bruce Cohen. The project…

Mortal Instruments‘ Robert Sheehan has been set to star opposite Hailee Steinfeld in Dustin Lance Black’s romantic drama The Statistical Probability Of Love At First Sight. Oscar-winner Black wrote and will direct the project. He’ll also exec produce with Bruna Papandrea, Caroline Kaplan and Steve Hutensky…