While in Paris to promote Mission: Impossible III, Tom Cruise skipped a press conference on Wednesday to go shopping baby clothes for his daughter, Suri, according to organizers.
He didn’t disappoint his fans, though. The 43-year-old actor arrived by helicopter at La Defense, the high-rise complex on the western edge of Paris, where thousands of fans who turned up to see de film’s premiere. Cruise took his time to treat them with autographs.

Earlier, at the news conference, movie co-star Michelle Monaghan was asked by director J.J. Abrams what was like to kiss Cruise with Katie Holmes on the set.
Was it weird?, Abrams asked. No way, she replied. Just in general to kiss Tom Cruise is, you know … an experience of a lifetime, she jested. I highly recommend it. … I said to Katie, ‘I understand why you keep him around’. (playfuls.com)

pr-inside.com:
Actress KERI RUSSELL is grateful to co-star TOM CRUISE for protecting her when they filmed dangerous stunts for blockbuster sequel MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III. The former FELICITY star was appearing in her first action film and looked to the veteran star for support as she got to grips with the rigorous demands of her biggest role yet.

She explains, “Tom is so into doing the stunts and he’s so good at them, so most of the things I do are with him. They’ll take like eight hours to set up. We’ll be jumping off the top of this building in downtown LA onto a moving van. He’s in a harness, I’m in a harness and I’m hanging onto him as we jump off. Two minutes before we’re about to do this, they come up and say, ‘Now if you don’t want to do this, we can take the two hours and take it all down. Like I can say no! Tom is waiting! The thing is, Tom has done it for so long and is so good at it, it kind of felt safe being with him. I figured they’re not going to kill Tom Cruise, so if I’m with him, I’m safe!”

And I found an interview with director J.J. Abrams at Moviehole.net which is also a little about M:I-III . Calendarlive.com is more specific about how J.J. Abrams became the director of the next M:I-movie. Nice story! Some phrases:

Tom Cruise was so determined to get J.J. Abrams to direct the third installment of his “Mission: Impossible” franchise that he persuaded Paramount Pictures to put the project on hold for a year. He also helped persuade Steven Spielberg to move up production on “War of the Worlds” and postpone work on “Munich” to accommodate Abrams’ schedule.
Once he finally stepped behind the cameras, Abrams found himself wondering how he, a neophyte filmmaker who had come to fame on the small screen creating the influential television hits “Lost” and “Alias,” had ended up on the set of a $165-million Tom Cruise movie.

“The conversations” were that with just weeks before production was to commence on “Mission: Impossible III,” director Joe Carnahan (“Narc”) was off the film and Cruise wanted Abrams as his replacement. The switch would cost Paramount some $30 million in sunk costs.

Cruise and Spielberg previously had wanted Abrams, whose screenplay credits include “Regarding Henry,” “Forever Young” and “Armageddon,” to rewrite “War of the Worlds.” But Abrams wasn’t available to work on that movie as he was in the middle of the “Lost” pilot.
All the same, Cruise and Abrams hit it off.
Then Cruise watched the first two seasons of “Alias,” which, Abrams explains, was partially inspired by the “Mission: Impossible” TV show. The actor apparently liked what he saw.
“He invited me and my wife to a concert one night, and I invited him to my birthday party,” Abrams said. “He came, hung out and was one of the last to leave. It was like — ‘How the hell is Tom Cruise at our house?’ ”

“I met with Tom and Paula, and Tom gave me that ‘Risky Business’ smile and said, ‘Do you want to do it?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I want to do it. But what is it? What’s the story? I haven’t read the script,’ ” Abrams said.
Abrams gave the script a look: “I felt my heart sink.” Abrams believed the first two “Mission: Impossible” movies had not captured the quintessential spirit of the TV series, and he found the screenplay for the third film too dark, too political, too impersonal.
“I’m just not the guy to make that movie,” Abrams said he told Cruise after reading the script. “And he said, ‘What would you want to do?’ And I said, ‘I don’t know exactly, but I know I want to do a much more personal story, something more character-based than mission-based.’ I thought he would say, ‘Well, we have to shoot in two months. Next time, we’ll do something.’ But he said, ‘Let’s do that version.’ ”

ET again has VIDEO’S of Tom’s Paris Premiere! Three video’s – of Tom at the premiere in Paris, in London and Rome! Sky has pics, go to the sites to watch!