From Top Gun to the Mission Impossible films, we’ve all gotten used to Tom Cruise racing by at maximum speed. But he’s slowing down for his latest project, Robert Redford’s weighty political drama Lions for Lambs, playing a telegenic Presidential hopeful whose aspirations become linked to the fate of two idealistic soldiers at risk in Afghanistan and the ambitions of a respected TV journalist (Meryl Streep). Cruise also applied to brakes on the red carpet at the premiere (photo gallery), which opened the AFI Film Festival at L.A.’s Arclight Theater (where his co-stars, wife Katie Holmes and their pals Will Smith, Jenna Elfman and David Beckham showed up to support him), and the world’s fastest-moving superstar gave Hollywood.com his drive-by thoughts about his new film. On whether his role as a politician will be limited to the big screen: “”Yes, it will be, I’m an actor. It was very challenging to play this character, these scenes were very challenging, especially being across from Meryl Streep. It took a lot of research for me. This is an area that Redford is very versed in, so I couldn’t think of anyone better to direct this picture.”" On whether the film should be viewed as a cautionary tale: “”I think it’s that. I think it’s a political thriller. I think people are going to walk away with what they’re going to walk away with; their own personal views, maybe an enlightenment in certain areas, and [the film will] challenge them, definitely. It is a picture that is incredibly relevant today and it’s a reminder. And I also think, if you look at Redford’s pictures, that this is a film that we could’ve made 20 years ago and you’re still looking at the dynamics of politics and journalism, education. If you looked at the military and these heroes who absolutely give their lives for freedom and liberty, I think these are very relevant and also it has a timeless quality to it.”" On the public’s openness to relevant political themes in Hollywood entertainment: “”I think we’re open to entertaining. And certainly we walk away with what we walk away with from the picture, but I know there is an audience out there that likes these kinds of pictures. I like a wide range. If you look at the kinds of films that I make from action to drama to love stories, thrillers, political thrillers. I enjoy these types of films also.”" On the daunting privilege of working opposite Meryl Streep: “”Everything that could be said about that woman has been said. To sit there–and I’ve seen all her pictures–and see that iconic, beautiful profile and from the inside to see her develop a character and to share in that experience and to be party to that generosity was a treat. Because it’s one thing to watch someone’s work or to study their work and then to have an opportunity to be on the floor working with them and particularly Redford, Streep, it’s always edifying.”" On whether he hesitated to mix controversial themes with his box office appeal: “”No, for me just making the picture was a success. That we could get a picture made here, I think that’s what’s great about this country and our democracy. I think the picture invites that dialogue. I didn’t think about it for a second. I just said ‘Let’s do it.’”"{nl}Source: Hollywood. Com

11.05.07 | Monday We kick off the week by making your head spin with a nonstop parade of guests, including Natasha Bedingfield, Daughtry, Michael Pena and Tom Cruise! Plus, we have 1st Looks at Amy Winehouse’s latest video and an exclusive clip of The Hills.

Here you have some videos of Lions For Lambs Los Angeles Premiere from entertainmment shows: Access Hollywood + Extra,  The Insider, Entertainmment Tonight (Thanks Myma)

Lions For Lambs is a small, bold, very political film with three of the biggest stars of the past 20, 30 and 40 years: Tom Cruise, 45; Meryl Streep, 58; and Robert Redford, 70. The movie comprises three conversations that take place simultaneously and, more or less, in real time. In Washington, a Republican Senator (Cruise) reveals a new wrinkle in the war on terrorism to a skeptical journalist (Streep). In Southern California, a college professor (Redford) tries to prod a restless student (Andrew Garfield) from apathy to engagement. In Afghanistan, two of the teacher’s former students (Derek Luke and Michael Pe

Here you have the first part of the interview with Tom Cruise done by Entertainment Tonight’s Jann Carl. The second part will be aired tonight and hopefully, we’ll post it here tomorrow. Enjoy!!! (Thanks Myma)

Tom premiered Lions For Lambs in Los Angeles last night. Next to him, his wife Kate, partners Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Michael Pe

Although he plays a college professor in his latest film, Robert Redford was, by his own admission, never much of a student, consistently more interested in what was going on outside the classroom window than inside. But there’s one moment from Redford’s academic past that burns brightly in his memory. The year was 1950 and Redford was a junior-high student in Van Nuys, suffering through one of those standardized achievement tests that are the bane of every school kid’s existence. Suddenly, one particular section of the exam grabbed his attention. “There was this picture, and you had to figure out what was wrong with it,” Redford recalls. “The picture seemed to be totally perfect

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