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Mon Oct 22, 7:53 PM ET

LONDON (Reuters) – Film star Tom Cruise spent more than two hours signing autographs and greeting fans in London on Monday at the world premiere of his new movie “Lions for Lambs,” Hollywood’s latest examination of U.S. foreign policy.

“Lions for Lambs,” which follows a slew of films related to the war in Iraq and the U.S. military response to the September 11, 2001 attacks, is about two soldiers serving in Afghanistan and political intrigue back in the United States.

Directed by Robert Redford and also starring Meryl Streep, the film has been branded “anti-war” by some media, and its backers are hoping its controversial subject matter will boost it at the box office and going into the awards season.

“I think that films like this are interesting and important and I think it’s anyone’s place if they want to do it,” Cruise told Reuters on the red carpet ahead of the premiere at the London Film Festival.

“We are free to communicate about anything we want and any subject we want, so I think it’s absolutely correct.”

Asked if he studied any politician in particular for his role as an ambitious senator, 45-year-old Cruise said:

“I studied many. I’ll never tell exactly who, but there’s many months of research that went into this character to not make him into a caricature but into a human being with real problems and to reflect that idea.”

Streep, who plays a journalist in “Lions for Lambs,” was not at the premiere, while Redford avoided the media glare and slipped into the cinema via the back entrance.

The film is due to open in U.S. cinemas on November 9. (Source: Yahoo! News)

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Tom Cruise stunned hundreds of suburbanites outside the Picture House Theater in Pelham, N.Y. last night when he emerged from a screening and met with fans.

The world’s biggest movie star got up close and personal after a screening of his new wartime drama, “Lions for Lambs,” as he signed autographs and posed for countless pictures.

It was a solo night for Tom, though, as wife Katie Holmes stayed away from the screening and instead took a stroll with baby Suri. (Source: Extra)

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Today sees the launch of the Times BFI London Film Festival – two weeks of cinematic heaven…

For the next two weeks the streets of London will be awash with big screen talent, as Tom Cruise, Hale Berry, Naomi Watts, Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger and more walk the capital’s red carpets.

Among the festival highlights are Robert Redford’s new political thriller Lions for Lambs, Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck going head-to-head in the who-done-it for morons The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and Cate Blanchett playing Bob Dylan in I’m Not There.

The festival’s at its best when you’re off the main street, so we’re keeping a close eye on talk-radio drama Talk to Me with Don Cheadle, while Interview looks set to really test Sienna Miller’s career and Gulf War movie Redacted brings legend Brian DePalma back on top of his game.

You can lose hours thumbing through the catalogue of screenings, but don’t worry – we’ll be keeping you up to date with all the latest news and reviews.

Visit bfi.org.uk/lff for more info on what’s on and how to book…

Make sure you enter our Festival Comp and win tickets to a gala premiere and a five star hotel stay! (Source: MTV UK)

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Berlin – Tom Cruise has finished his shooting in Germany for a war movie about a plot to kill Hitler, his production company said on Wednesday. The Hollywood star plays German resistance hero Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg in Valkyrie.

Work on the movie began in July and will be wrapped up by the end of the month after scenes in which Cruise is not involved are finished, the spokesman said.

Valkyrie portrays the true-life plot to assassinate the Nazi dictator with a bomb on July 20, 1944 at his Wolf’s Lair headquarters in what is now Poland.

Filming was dogged by problems involving location issues, injuries to extras on set and objections to Cruise playing a German hero.

German authorities initially refused permission for filming at the Berlin site where Stauffenberg was executed, but later agreed on condition due respect was shown to the resistance leader.

After filming at the Bendler Block was finished, it was discovered that some of the negatives were ruined in development by the chemicals and the scenes had to be re-shot two weeks’ later.

Colonel Stauffenberg and three other plotters were summarily shot at the site when Hitler survived the blast and the Nazis raced to suppress the plot before it spread.

Extras playing Wehrmacht soldiers were hurt last month when they fell off a vintage truck after the wooden side fell down as it rounded a bend on a Berlin street.

There were strong objections from some in Germany at the outset to the idea that Cruise should play a German hero, mainly because Cruise is a Scientology devotee and did not look like Stauffenberg, a Catholic.

Cruise is due to appear with Robert Redford in the German capital on October 24 at a special screening of Lions for Lambs, a political thriller about the Afghan war in which they both star.

Afterwards, the two actors will take part in a discussion with the audience about the film, which is due to be released in cinemas in Germany on November 8.

The movie digs behind the news, the politics and a nation divided to explore the human consequences of a complicated war, according to pre-release publicity. (Source: Earth times.org)

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By WENN | Tuesday, October 09, 2007

HOLLYWOOD – Tom Cruise’s latest movie Valkyrie has suffered a setback: After finally having a ban on filming inside an important German historical location overturned, the footage shot there has turned out to be unusable.

Crucial scenes filmed at the Bendlerblock in Berlin, where a number of German officers were executed after an abortive attempt to assassinate Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in 1944, will now have to be reshot by director Bryan Singer.

A spokeswoman for the production company tells German newspaper Bild, “A majority of the film material is unusable. We have to film it again.”

Colin Ullman, a representative for the company that delivered the footage shot to a post-production studio in Munich, adds, “The production company told us that there were problems with the negative development in Arri Munich, one of the top post-production companies in Germany. The images were wiped away.”

Fortunately for Singer and Cruise, the German government has agreed to allow them further access to the Bendlerblock.

They had previously been banned from filming there because officials did not want the “dignity of the place” to be violated.

In the movie, Cruise portrays Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who was put to death after plotting to blow up Hitler. (Source: Hollywood)

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