Tom To Do Impossible Again

It sounds like Mission: Impossible 4 could get the greenlight by Hollywood bosses.

Sumner Redstone, the executive chairman of cable network and movie studio owner Viacom Inc, has said he “will not oppose the casting of Tom Cruise” in the next instalment of the movie franchise.

He’s been quoted as saying: "What I can say is, I consider Tom Cruise a great actor and a good friend, and if Paramount decides to go ahead with him, I will not object."

This comes two years after Sumner told the Wall Street Journal that the studio was not renewing a 14-year relationship with Tom's production company, saying "his recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount."

His publicity faux pas ranged from his manic, couch-hopping profession of love for actress Katie Holmes on The Oprah Winfrey Show to his strident denunciations of psychiatry.