Redstone Won't Keep Cruise from Fourth Mission

Despite cutting ties with Tom Cruise in 2006, Viacom Inc. and CBS Corp. chairman Sumner Redstone said he has no problem with the actor continuing to star in Paramount's Mission: Impossible franchise. Viacom is Paramount's parent company.

Citing "recent conduct," Redstone severed a 14-year relationship with Cruise after his couch-jumping appearance on Oprah and verbal slugfest with Today's Matt Lauer, kicking Cruise and his producing partner off the Paramount Pictures lot. But according to the AP, Redstone told a reporter at a conference in South Korea that he will not keep Cruise, who is already in talks to star in the fourth Impossible film, from returning to the franchise.

"I consider Tom Cruise a great actor and a good friend," Redstone said. "And if Paramount decides - and they will make the decision - to move ahead with him, I will not object."

Do you think Redstone made a mistake by cutting Tom loose to begin with? Are you psyched for a Mission: Impossible 4? - Adam Bryant

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