Big doings on the casting couch, what with Hayden Christensen remaining gainfully employed, 90210's Shenae Grimes getting a little extra cigarette money and somebody finally getting Yogi and Boo-Boo a film deal.

But that's nothing compared to this: Scorsese and De Niro are back in the crime biz.

The Oscar-owning buddies are joining cinematic forces for the ninth time—but their first collaboration since 1995's Casino—for Paramount's I Heard You Paint Houses, about the mob hitman believed to have 86'd Jimmy Hoffa.

Scorsese will helm the project and De Niro will play contract killer Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran, according to Variety. Sheeran murdered more than two dozen people at the behest of his Mafia bosses.