The 14th annual Fantastic Fest unveiled the first wave of programming for their genre-driven film festival — and it is filled with thrills, chills, and in some cases, a large bloody body count. The fest runs Sept. 20-27 in Austin. The festival pulls from all over the globe to bring audiences the best in horror…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired the global distribution rights to period revenge thriller Apostle, written and directed Gareth Evans, with Michael Sheen, Lucy Boynton, Bill Millner, and Kristine Froseth joining the cast along with previously announced Dan Stevens, who was attached to the project early on. Filming is…

Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll co-star Robert Kelly is reuniting with the series’ creator-star Denis Leary and his Apostle production company for another FX comedy series project. The cable network is developing a half-hour series starring actor-comedian Kelly, from Leary & Jim Serpico’s Apostle. In addition to starring, Kelly…

IFC has given an official green light to Apostle’s hockey comedy project Uncle Chubby’s, which has been given an official title, Benders. The network has ordered eight half-hour episodes of the comedy, which had been on track for a series pickup for the past couple of months. Benders follows several friends bonded by…

Abbey Robertson has joined Apostle Management, the management division of Denis Leary and Jim Serpico's production company Apostle. Robertson, who was a manager at The Collective, joins George Heller in Apostle's Los Angeles office. Prior to that, she was the co-founder with Melody Hammer of Adept Entertainment, a…

EXCLUSIVE: 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…

EXCLUSIVE: Leslie Glass’ popular April Woo series of suspense novels is headed to TV. CBS has bought a drama procedural based on the nine mystery books that hails from Denis Leary and Jim Serpico’s Apostle production banner and CBS TV Studios. Novelist and TV writer Amy Bloom, creator of the Lifetime series State of Mi…

EXCUSIVE: Denis Leary and Jim Serpico’s Apostle is branching out into management. The duo’s New York-based film and TV production company is launching Apostle Management, whose main focus will be shaping up the careers of stand-up comedians who aspire to perform, write and direct their own material. “In this digital…

EXCLUSIVE: Denis Leary and Jim Serpico's Apostle has inked a two-year overall deal with Fox TV Studios to develop and produce new cable series. Additionally, the company is in negotiations with CBS TV Studios for a deal that would cover broadcast projects as well as shows targeting the studio's cable sibling <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/showtime/" id="auto-tag_showtime"…