In his first sit-down interview since marrying KATIE HOLMES and welcoming daughter SURI into the world, TOM CRUISE gets candid about marriage and fatherhood with our JANN CARL in Paris, as he promotes his new political drama, ‘Lions for Lambs.’{nl}Cruise, who talks to Jann in the city where he proposed to Katie, says married life is “all very good, all very lovely,” and that when he needs an honest opinion, he definitely turns to his wife of nearly a year.{nl}Tom’s highly anticipated new flick ‘Lions for Lambs’ is out November 9, but he’s not the only working actor in the Cruise household. Katie has wrapped the comedy ‘Mad Money’ with DIANE KEATON and QUEEN LATIFAH, and Tom sings the praises for his talented lady. {nl}”I feel lucky,” he says. “I have a lot of respect for her as an artist, as a woman. She’s a very strong, gracious woman. She’s very funny, a great comedian.”{nl}Besides working on movies and a happy marriage, Tom and Katie are keeping busy with their one-and-a-half year-old daughter Suri. And he says, just like everyone else, he and Katie make their hectic lives work. “We’ve gotten pretty good at organizing everything,” he says. “I don’t sleep much anyway.”{nl}Tom also talks about his new position as co-owner of United Artists and the possibility of one day directing. “I will one day, I’ve always wanted to,” he says. “I’ve been offered things to direct, but have to find the right piece.”{nl}For more on Tom’s all-new interview, watch tonight’s ET. Here you can watch another preview

Tom was yesterday at the Tonight Show With Jay Leno and here you can see the interview. He looked great!! (Thanks Myma)

“What attracted me to Lions for Lambs,” says the film’s star and director Robert Redford, “was the way the story uses the war as a catalyst for major issues, such as the role of the media, of education, of politics and youth in America. It’s a provocative film that addresses big questions head-on, while compelling the audience into thinking about where we are right now, and how we got here.” On their way to the Rome Film Festival, where the movie received its world premiere on Tuesday, before its showing the following day at the London Film Festival, Redford and his co-stars Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep stopped in New York to promote a film they all feel strongly about. Covering the events of a single day, the story takes place on three tense emotional fronts. Presidential hopeful Senator Jasper Irving (Cruise) is about to give a sensational story about a new war strategy to a probing TV journalist (Streep) as the two carry on a fierce cat-and-mouse game of wit and evasion. At a West Coast University, a once idealistic professor, Dr Malley (Redford), confronts a privileged but blas

Here you have a preview of tonight’s Entertainment Tonight’s interview with Tom Cruise (Thanks Myma)

CENTURY CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Rich in history and devoted to creating powerful, quality films, United Artists (UA) was formed in 1919 by Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith to encourage progressive filmmaking, giving each star the authority and autonomy to create the films about which they were most passionate. The studio responsible for creating some of the finest films of all time including iconic film franchises ROCKY, PINK PANTHER and JAMES BOND and critically-acclaimed and award-winning features RAGING BULL, SOME LIKE IT HOT, WEST SIDE STORY, ANNIE HALL, MIDNIGHT COWBOY and RAIN MAN, contains a library of nearly 1,000 feature films and boasts more than 80 Academy Award®-winning classics. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment (MGMHE) will kick off an 18-month global celebration leading up to the 90th anniversary in 2009 to promote the largest catalog event in video industry history. {nl}Launching in North America November 2007, the UA 90th Anniversary celebration kick-off coincides with the premiere of the new UA’s first release, directed by Academy Award® winner Robert Redford, and starring Redford, Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise, LIONS FOR LAMBS is a powerful and gripping story that digs behind the news, the politics and a nation divided to explore the human consequences of a complicated war. {nl}“We are very respectful of the United Artists tradition and look forward to continuing the studio’s rich creative legacy,” noted Paula Wagner, Chief Executive Officer, UA. “LIONS FOR LAMBS is the first of a wide range of films that will revitalize UA and enable the next generation of filmmakers to thrive and see their visions realized.” {nl}“The rebirth of UA spurred the greater MGM family to look at the breadth of films and the tremendous legacy of the studio,” said Rick Sands, Chief Operating Officer, MGM. “Our home entertainment group at Twentieth Century Fox saw this as an opportunity to bring back to the consumer consciousness the impact that this library has had on pop culture, entertainment and the artistry of filmmaking.” {nl}Added Eric Doctorow, General Manager, MGM Worldwide, Home Entertainment, “The UA 90th Anniversary campaign was designed to provide retailers around the world with all of the tools necessary to take part in this extraordinary celebration – new packaging, collectible gift-sets, gift with purchase programs and unique promotional partnerships that provide consumer focused and retail-friendly execution opportunities as part of this landmark campaign.” {nl}UNITED ARTISTS 90th ANNIVERSARY MARKETING CAMPAIGN {nl}The $20 million marketing, promotions, publicity and media campaign targeting national television, print, radio and online outlets begins in Q4 2007. MGMHE will also launch a dedicated Web site

Paula Wagner, Chief Executive Officer, United ArtistsWell-seasoned from her 15 years as a talent agent and 14 years as Tom Cruise’s producing partner, Wagner is primed for success in her new role as studio chief at United Artists. Along with Cruise, she has the power to greenlight any project under $60 million in order to deliver four UA films a year for MGM to distribute. She’s hit the ground running with two films starring Cruise: Robert Redford’s Middle-East war drama Lions for Lambs due in November, and Bryan Singer’s WWII drama Valkyrie.{nl}Source: Premiere Magazine

{nl}{nl}{nl}{nl}{nl}Oliver Stone has hired Woody Harrelson for his upcoming Vietnam War drama Pinkville. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bruce Willis and Channing Tatum will also star in this United Artists film.The project is based on the infamous 1968 My Lai Massacre. Upwards of 500 innocent people, including women, children, and the elderly, were murdered by U.S. soldiers. The massacre came as a major turning point in the war. Harrelson will be playing Col. Henderson, the officer in charge of the task force that committed the massacre. Mikko Alanne wrote the script. Production is set to start early next year.{nl}Source: Movie Web

As goodwill ambassadors for Hollywood’s political pics, Tom Cruise and Robert Redford were well cast. {nl}The duo, hopping from London to Rome, then Berlin and Paris last week for “Lions for Lambs,” delivered star power (Cruise) and political earnestness (Redford). {nl}As Hollywood continues to roll out a raft of political dramas in Europe, many are looking to “Lambs” as a gauge of local receptivity. {nl}Returning to the London red carpet for the first time since he was squirted with water by pranksters two years ago, Cruise was warmly embraced on his two-hour meet-and-greet with fans at the pic’s Times BFI London Film Fest premiere. Redford’s more discreet entrance went down less well with the autograph-hunters. {nl}At the Rome Film Fest, where “Lions” held its first press screening the next day, Redford took the lead when it came to making political statements. “We have lost lives, we’ve lost sacred freedoms, we’ve lost financial stability; we’ve lost our position of respect on the world stage,” he reflected as one of Hollywood’s longtime liberals. {nl}Cruise kept largely above the fray, fielding questions about Scientology and the role of stars at film fests rather than making political points. {nl}Anxious studio execs declared the two appearances a success. {nl}”The mission … has been to get the themes and messages of the film in front of the target audience,” says Todd Huntley, Fox VP of Europe Theatrical. “Europe is a market that likes films that have something to say.” {nl}True. But how well they say it is crucial. {nl}While the political drama, centered around the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, won’t be released in the U.K. until Nov. 9, a few early reviews crept into the Brit press. {nl}Daily Telegraph reviewer Sheila Johnston wrote, “There’s something to be said for promoting … values of honor, decency, doing the right thing,” but expressed reservations: “ ’Lions for Lambs’ hopes to inspire disillusioned youngsters, especially Americans, although, curiously, it’s using its three A-list stars — of whom Cruise, 45, is the youngest — as the main selling point.” {nl}The Times, the fest sponsor, pulled no punches in its review: “You can’t fault the anger, but the drama glows as brightly as a five-watt bulb,” wrote James Christopher. {nl}{nl}{nl}More than one option{nl}{nl}{nl}{nl}{nl}{nl}{nl}{nl}{nl}(Person) James Christopher {nl}Actor, Dialogue Editor, Foley Editor{nl}(Person) James Christopher {nl}Assistant Director{nl}In Italy, where the film will be released Dec. 15, early comments were generally more upbeat. {nl}Leading Italo daily Corriere della Sera said the pic would have appealed to Joseph Mankiewicz “for the importance that it gives to the spoken word, to dialectic, and to rhetoric” and praised it as “cinema of ideas, acting, and little else. But very rich in intelligence and lucidity.” {nl}Said Turin daily La Stampa” “(It’s) nothing new, but I wonder if this film won’t help people give some thought to these issues anyhow.” {nl}Still, La Repubblica called it a “noble film that doesn’t reveal anything new,” and pointed out that “the lions and the lambs do a lot of talking.” {nl}Thus far, the early raft of Hollywood pics touching on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East has seen modest results in the U.K. “The Kingdom” stands at a decent $5 million since its Oct. 5 release. Angelina Jolie starrer “A Mighty Heart,” released Sept. 21, has cumed $800,000. Gavin Hood’s Oct. 19 opener “Rendition” received mixed reviews and bowed to $1.2 million. {nl}While Paul Haggis’ “In the Valley of Elah,” and Brian De Palma’s “Redacted” unspooled at last month’s Venice fest, neither has hit Italo cinemas. {nl}And while Cruise and Redford played prominently on Italo TV newscasts as they tubthumped “Lambs,” U.S. politics still took a backseat to local politics. Italo webs mostly showed footage of the two stars parading with Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni, who recently announced that he will be running to become Italy’s next prime minister.{nl}Source: Variety

Here you have another video of Lions For Lambs’ premiere in Paris. Nice and funny interview, you’ll see;)

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