Nicolas Cage and rapper 50 Cent to team up in new movie

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — US movie star Nicolas Cage and rapper 50 Cent are teaming up to star in a new film based on the life of a real prison boxing coach, the industry press said.

In the Universal Pictures movie "The Dance," Oscar-winner Cage, 42, will play coach Billy "The Kid" Roth who has spent more than 40 years as a volunteer boxing coach in prisons in the US state of Louisiana, Daily Variety said.

Musical icon 50 Cent will play a prison inmate whom the coach believes has the talent to be a contender, but the jailbird's ambitions appear severely threatened by the fact that he is serving a life sentence.

The movie will be based on ...