VIDEO : Robert De Niro is Coming Back to the Ring 36 Years After ' Raging Bull'

Robert De Niro in Hands of Stone. (Screengrab: Moviefone/YouT Paris - Robert De Niro goes back into the ring in a new boxing movie to be shown at the Cannes film festival later this month, 16 years after his Oscar winning performance in Raging Bull. De Niro, 72, who played Jake LaMotta in Martin Scorsese's 1980 classic, plays trainer Ray Arcel in "Hands of Stone", a biopic about one of the greatest Latino fighters of all time, Roberto Duran. "I'm excited to be coming back to Cannes especially with this movie that I'm so proud of," said De Niro who will appear at a special screening of the film in his honour.