Tom Cruise waved to his Italian fans from a speedboat, while shooting a motorboat chase on the Tiber river in Rome for Mission: Impossible 3, a remake of a popular 1960s show, reported Associated Press.

According to Battelli di Roma, the company which runs ferries on the Tiber river, all boats that were usually shipping locals, tourists and other traffic along the river, were barred from their waterway for the day, due to the M:I 3 shootings.

The "War of the Worlds" star was joined on the set by Ving Rhames, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Michelle Monaghan and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
The movie will be released on May 5, 2006.

Mission: Impossible 1, directed by Brian De Palma came out in 1996, and Mission Impossible 2, directed by John Woo was on of the 2000 blockbusters.


Other locations for the movie directed by J.J. Abrams and produced by Paula Wagner include St. Peter's Square and the area around the Trevi Fountain, reports la Repubblica daily.

Italian fans may therefore spot Cruise kissing his fiancé and new Scientology member Katie Holmes kissing in other romantic places than the riverside set.

Tom Cruise, 43 and Katie Holmes, 26, got engaged last month after "the last Samurai" proposed her at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.