Hollywood star Robert De Niro has reportedly pulled out of forthcoming film New Orleans - only to be replaced by his Heat co-star Val Kilmer.

From the epic shootout in Heat to the Terminator battling the T-1000, everyone loves fight sequences. The two previously mentioned are some of the best of all time. The good fight scenes stand out and the bad ones are forgotten. But it’s the great ones that are seared into our memory. The following is a list consisting of the very best fight scenes that 2007 had to offer.

With the holidays right around the corner, this time of year is easily the hotbed for big video game releases. However, a lot of the great games coming out are drowned out by the enormity of the new releases – and plenty of those games are simple cash-ins that are going to be traded in in January. So, here is a rundown of what to buy for yourself or loved ones this year, listed by intended audience. Part 1 - Mature:

Legendary actor Robert De Niro is returning to his Mafia-character roots with acclaimed director Michael Mann. The two-time Oscar winning actor, best known for gangster movies including Goodfellas and Casino, and Mann last joined forces on the critically-acclaimed 1995 crime thriller Heat.

Kind hearted Robert De Niro has spent time in jail offering help to prison convicts. De Niro met actor Danny Trejo on the set of Michael Mann's 1995 crime epic Heat, and he was intrigued to hear the Hollywood tough guy - who is a reformed criminal - regularly gives motivational talks to prison inmates. And Trejo was quick invite the Hollywood legend along.

Veteran actor Jon Voight will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Montreal World Film Festival later this summer. The Oscar-winning star of movies including Midnight Cowboy, Deliverance, Coming Home and Heat will collect the Special Grand Prix Of The Americas award during the Canadian event, which runs from August 23 to September 3.

Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are set to team up on the big screen in a new serial killer movie. The two actors - who have three Academy Awards and 14 Oscar nominations between them - appeared together briefly in The Godfather Part II and Heat, but only shared the screen fleetingly.

Al Pacino movie Dog Day Afternoon has been voted the best heist film of all time. The 1975 classic, directed by Sidney Lumet, beat another Pacino movie, Heat, to first place in the poll of readers of British magazine Empire.

Robert De Niro attempted to steer Tom Sizemore away from drugs when he discovered the star was using heroin while they were shooting Heat together in the mid-1990s. Sizemore, who attends daily meetings in a bid to stay clean and sober, reveals De Niro intervened and insisted he check into rehab.