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Apostle partners Denis Leary and Jim Serpico have come aboard as executive producers of Burn, a feature documentary about the city of Detroit seen through the eyes of its firefighters. The pair behind the FX firefighter drama Rescue Me have launched a campaign on the crowd-funding site Kickstarter to seek finishing financing for the docu, which centers on the struggle of the men and women charged with the task of saving a city many have written off. Burn will be co-directed by Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez and is targeting the 2012 festival season. “This film will help raise the public’s awareness to the work firefighters around the country do, as well as the sacrifices they make, particularly in these times of severe budget cuts,” Leary said. The filmmakers are offering products and experiences to entice Kickstarter donors, including a Boardwalk Empire set visit and an autographed helmet signed by the Rescue Me cast. So far, Burn has been funded via grants and donations from the likes of GM and Apple. A portion of the film’s proceeds will go to The Leary Firefighters Foundation to purchase equipment for the Detroit Fire Department.
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Principal photography has begun on an inspirational drama centering around the apostle Paul, from Affirm Films, a Sony Pictures Entertainment company.
Deadline: Jon Stewart will likely go out laughing. The soon-to-be-former Daily Show host announced last night at the end of his show that his final guests next week will be Amy Schumer, Denis Leary and Louis C.K.
Deadline: It’s going to be a week of debuts for the multiple Emmy nominee and Spider-Man actor with his first appearance at Comic-Con and his return to TV with the July 16 premiere of his FX comedy series. Co-starring John Corbett, Robert Kelly, John Ales and Elaine Hendrix plus Nickelodeon alum Elizabeth Gillies, Denis Leary’s Sex&Drugs&Rock&Rol l goes way behind the music to the short rise of The Heathens and the multi-decade fall of lead singer Johnny Rock. The show starts with a previously unknown daughter, played by Gillies, coming to NYC and throwing some dough at Leary’s has-been Rock to get the almost famous band from the early 1990s back together to make her into a star. Needless to say, there are a lot of power plays and not all of them on guitars.
