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Dustin Lance Black, winner of a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Milk, has revealed he suffered a serious head injury last month and is recovering, but that “the road back will be long.” In a post Monday on Instagram, Black, creator of FX’s recently released limited series Under the Banner of Heaven, did not reveal…

NewFest said Thursday that HBO’s upcoming Mama’s Boy, the documentary about the life of Oscar-winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, will be the opening-night film for the New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival. The fest, which also announced its full lineup, kicks off its 34th edition October 13. Laurent Bouzereau's…

UPDATED, 2:15 PM: HBO will premiere documentary Mama’s Boy, a feature adaptation of the 2019 memoir by Oscar-winning Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black, on Tuesday, October 18 at 9 PM ET/PT. Laurent Bouzereau directs the film, which hails from LD Entertainment, Ambin Television and Playtone, in association with Nedland…

FX has unveiled a teaser for its upcoming limited series Under the Banner of Heaven, starring 2022 Oscar nominee Andrew Garfield (tick, tick…BOOM!), which is set to debut exclusively on Hulu this year. In the series created by Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black (Milk, When We Rise), inspired by the true-crime…

EXCLUSIVE: As part of Vince Totino and John Hegeman’s newly launched Wayward Entertainment and their new genre slate, we’ve learned that the studio will be going into a production on an English-language take on Erlingur Thoroddsen's Icelandic horror movie Rift. Oscar winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black will…

FX has ordered a limited series based on Jon Krakauer's Mormon crime drama Under the Banner of Heaven with Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones starring. The series, which is for FX on Hulu, is created by Academy Award-winner Dustin Lance Black (Milk) with Hell or High Water helmer David Mackenzie directing. The book…

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), viewed as a top tier contender as Joe Biden’s vice presidential running mate, will headline a virtual fundraiser with the former Vice President. California’s lieutenant governor, Eleni Kounalakis, also will be among the special guests at the June 9 event. Tickets start at $500 per person…

EXCLUSIVE: Laurent Bouzereau, the director of Netflix’s riveting World War II documentary Five Came Back and the upcoming HBO doc Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind, has acquired rights to Mama’s Boy: A Story From Our Americas, the recent memoir by Oscar-winning screenwriter and activist Dustin Lance Black. The plan is…

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…