Sumner Redstone stated this week that he has no problem with Tom Cruise starring in the next installment to “Mission Impossible” movie series. The fact that he cut ties with the actor back in 2006 has been pushed aside.
Redstone executive chairman and controlling shareholder of Viacom Inc. and CBS Corp. ended a 14-year relationship with Cruise and his producing partner in August 2006, kicking them off the Paramount Pictures lot and ending their lucrative deal to develop projects for the studio. Despite the severed relationship, Cruise, 45, is in talks with Paramount to star in a fourth “Mission: Impossible” film. Viacom is Paramount’s parent company.