Nicolas Cage on New Love, New Movie

L O S   A N G E L E S, Aug. 16 -- It's been a wild ride for actor Nicolas Cage. He introduced his new film and his new girlfriend to the world in the same week he cemented his status as a movie star.

The actor showed up at the premiere of Captain Corelli's Mandolin in Beverly Hills with his latest flame, Lisa Marie Presley.

It was a big night for stargazers since Cage's co-star Penelope Cruz also showed up with her new beau — Tom Cruise, who is only recently divorced from Nicole Kidman.

"I guess the producers must have been happy that night," Cage told Good Morning America today. "I don't know how that lined up for them… I guess the luck of the draw."

Feeling Like a King?

Cage, who sang like Elvis in the film Wild at Heart and dressed as Elvis in Honeymoon in Las Vegas is now dating Elvis' daughter.

When asked about rumors that he impersonated Elvis on his own answering machine, he chalked it up to suspicious minds.

"No, no, no! I don't know where that story came from, but I'd like to strangle somebody," Cage said. "I've never done that in my life."

But while Cage may not be the King, he has made it to the big time. Twenty years after his movie debut as a bit player in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, he added his prints to the Forecourt of Stars in front of Hollywood's Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Tuesday.

"It's something I've always sort of dreamed about," says Cage. "When I was a kid [we] would come down to the Grauman's Chinese Theater, and I'd see the hands and feet, because I grew up here, and I used to live not far from there, right around Hollywood Boulevard."

In his new film, Cage plays a music loving, opera singing Italian captain who falls in love with a local girl in Greece during World War II.

"I've never been in these sort of large scope epic dramatic films and I thought it was time to try to do that," Cage said.

Although he has been in more than 40 films, including Moonstruck, Leaving Las Vegas and Raising Arizona, Cage says he is still has a lot to learn about acting.