Entertainment | Tom Cruise How Tom Cruise Got His Groove Back Four years ago he was essentially finished—now he's filming MI4 By Evann Gastaldo Posted Feb 11, 2010 11:55 AM CST Copied Tom Cruise, right, talks to his wife Katie Holmes, left, before a Champions League soccer match. (AP Photo/Angel Fernandez) Less than four years ago, Sumner Redstone called Tom Cruise "embarrassing" and refused to renew his Viacom contract; today, Cruise is back on Redstone's good side and set to appear in Mission: Impossible 4. How did it happen? The Wrap takes a look at Cruise's fall and rise: March 2004: Cruise replaces his longtime publicist with his Scientologist sister. May 2005: Cruise famously jumps all over Oprah Winfrey's couch while expressing his love for Katie Holmes. Later this month, Mission: Impossible 3 is a domestic dud. June 2005: Cruise delivers yet another awful interview, this time ranting against prescription drugs and psychiatry on Today. November 2005: Cruise's sister resigns. He gets a real publicist. August 2006: Redstone says his ex-wife, "like women everywhere, had come to hate" Cruise and severs his studio's production deal with the actor because "he was costing us a lot of money." November 2007: Lions for Lambs, Cruise's first MGM/UA project, is slammed by critics but breaks even. March 2008: Cruise and Redstone have lunch at Cruise's request and decide to get back in business together. August 2008: Cruise's bit part as a fat, bald movie mogul in Tropic Thunder finally gets the actor some good publicity. December 2008: Valkyrie, Cruise's second MGM/UA film, gets better reviews and basically doesn't bomb, as many expected. February 2010: Cruise is announced for Mission: Impossible 4. Voila! He's back. Read These Next Her blood isn't compatible with anyone else's. Rubio says the fate of Iran's conversion facility is what matters. Some of the most explosive Diddy allegations are dropped. Iran's supreme leader makes first public comments since ceasefire. Report an error