Just when they thought he was out…

It ain’t over till the short, shy Jewish man sings…

Though “Righteous Kill” promised everything, and, er, delivered nothing, you can’t blame Robert De Niro [or Pacino for that -  just whoever pushed them into doing the film and, of course, director Jon Avnet (turdstick).

Bobby D will be in much better hands next time ’round. He looks set to reunite with Martin Scorsese on a new mob movie – hell yeah! – called “I Heard You Paint Houses”.

The Oscar Winning star of “Goodfellas” and “The Godfather Part II” will play De Niro will play Frank “the Irishman” Sheeran, who is reputed to have carried out more than 25 mob murders (he’s also rumoured to be the assassin that shot Jimmy Hoffa).

Variety has the low-down…