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Every day, I get up and I wonder why the movie gods have never seen fit to grant us a Nicolas Cage movie in 3D. I can think of no flaw in The Wicker Man that a 3D bear suit punch couldn't fix altogether, and I know I'd be ten times more interested in The Sorcerer's Apprentice if we got some 3D trenchcoat swishing. But at last, my wish has been granted, though it probably won't be until 2010, 2011 or something, as The Hollywood Reporter has announced Cage will Drive Angry in three-freaking-D!

Directed by Patrick Lussier, who co-wrote the script with Todd Farmer, Drive Angry centers on a man who is driven literally and figuratively by rage. What has filled him with such unquenchable anger? Why, a gang that killed his daughter and kidnapped her baby. He's hunting them down, one by one, and mile by mile. I'm just going to quote THR here because to paraphrase would be a sin: "The vendetta / rescue spins out of control as the chase gets bloodier by the mile, leaving bodies strewn along the highway." If you thought Vanishing Point was too boring and 2D, Drive Angry will be the film for you.

Drive Angry will be burning rubber and leaving its gasoline fumes all over Shreveport, Louisiana in April, courtesy of Nu Image / Millennium Films' new Louisiana studio. As we wait for Cage to pop out of the screen, you can revive our Love Him or Tolerate Him debate all over again!

You can't keep a good Sylvester Stallone hero down, even if they should have been dead ten or twenty times over through the course of their 1980s careers. John Rambo is set to take another step towards complete and utter immortality as Variety reports that Stallone is officially putting a fifth Rambo film into production.

Stallone has been avidly talking about a fifth Rambo for nearly two years, and last anyone heard, was debating whether to set it in Austria or America. But seeing as there's not a ton of John Rambo-esque conflict in Austria at the moment, and Rambo did show him back on U.S. soil, he's opted for the latter. The storyline finds our hero on the U.S.-Mexican border, fighting through human traffickers and drug lords in order to rescue a young kidnapped girl. (Actually, I can see the exact same movie set in Austria, but Stallone & Company probably realized it would be too close to the story of Taken. Or maybe they really did opt in favor of geographical continuity.)

Lest you think this is just talk, Nu Image / Millennium Films have officially green-lit the film, and it's set to begin production in the spring. I know I should be really critical of this and roll my eyes, but I can't help it. There's something very comforting in seeing an old warhorse continue to unleash semi-automatic hell on those most deserving of it.

Yes, that headline is entirely accurate: Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, inarguably two of America's most talented, adored and expensive actors, will reunite for the second time in their careers ... in a movie bankrolled by indie firm Nu Image Films. You might be scratching your head wondering "Yeah, so? What's so nutty about that?" Well, only that, for the most part, Nu Image is a schlock-house known for churning out movies called Raging Sharks, Mansquito and Operation Delta Force 5: Random Fire. What's going on here?

Variety has the bizarre news from Cannes: Pacino and De Niro will star in Righteous Kill as two cops who are searching for a serial killer. Jon Avnet (best known for chick flicks) has been tapped to direct; the screenplay comes from Inside Man scribe Russell Gewirtz; and the Nu Image / Millennium Films production will kick off this August in Connecticut. One can only assume that 2/3rds of the $60 million budget will go to the one-two punch of leading man magic.

Nu Image chief Avi Lerner does his best Avi Arad impression when talking about the flick: "This is an event in world history ... They were in two scenes in Heat. In this movie they are in the whole thing together." By Avi's logic, you could make a movie called Bob and Al Sit on a Park Bench and it'd be an event in world history. Matter of fact, isn't everything an "event in world history"? Mr. Lerner contends that the project came together because the actors really wanted to work together again. Large trucks of money backing up to the guys' houses are never mentioned once. OK, I gotta be completely fair: In the last few years, Nu Image has semi-backed away from the non-stop schlock parade to help bankroll movies like The Black Dahlia, The Wicker Man and the upcoming Rambo 4... Wait, what was my point again?