To coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Tribeca Film Festival in 2011, Burns wrote a movie, "Newlyweds", that he also directed and starred in. Following a model similar to "Nice Guy Johnny", "Newlyweds" was shot on the Canon 5D, with an even smaller crew, for $9000 in 12 days. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2011 as the closing night film. He claimed on Twitter that the $9,000 budget broke out to "5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can." In 2013 Burns starred as real-life gangster Bugsy Siegel in Frank Darabont's miniseries, "Mob City".