Tom Cruise is a dab hand at opening night walkabouts.
Yet last night's charming of his fans took more than three hours.
The new father has some hot new news to talk about, having left girlfriend Katie Holmes and daughter Suri at their American home.
He was hell bent on talking to as many of the 3,000 fans as possible in Leicester Square, at the opening of Mission Impossible III .
The Hollywood celebrity was not content just signing autographs, he talked at length with fans.
This is something that he started in London, at the premiere of the second Mission Impossible film in 2000.
Cruise spent an hour with fans prior to the Vanilla Sky premiere and 90 minutes in 2002 prior to the Minority Report premiere.
In addition, he also spent 2 and a half hours with fans before The Last Samurai premiere.
Cruise has alongside him his two adopted children from his marriage to Nicole Kidman. 13 year old Isabella and 11 year old Connor made their red carpet debut last night.
