From the outset, Sumner Redstone was a curiosity. A cluster of power players 50 years ago were suddenly bidding for control of Hollywood’s revered movie studios. Competition was intense but most ...

Sumner Redstone, the powerful ... from the Transformers franchise to Al Gore's landmark environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth. He’s also credited with pushing forward the careers ...

The Redstone family used to control one of the world’s great media empires. Before Sumner Redstone split his holdings in two in 2005, Viacom was the third-largest media company in the US and one ...

Sumner Redstone, the media legend who built what is now ViacomCBS, died Tuesday at age 97, the company confirmed in a statement Wednesday. "Sumner was a true industry titan, a brilliant and driven ...

The last time much of Hollywood heard from Sydney Holland, she was in the midst of an acrimonious split from nonagenarian media mogul and chairman emeritus of CBS and Viacom Sumner Redstone.

A decade ago, when he was still somewhat spry, Sumner Redstone had an existential crisis. The shocking collapse of Lehman Brothers was still reverberating through the capital markets, and the ...

When founder and executive chairman Sumner Redstone didn’t speak Thursday during Viacom’s quarterly earnings conference call, the industry noticed. Curiously, though, Wall Street chose mostly ...

This time last year, Sumner Redstone and his daughter Shari were on the rocks. The ailing media mogul had offered Shari $1 billion for her 20% stake in his empire, partly to guarantee that she'd ...

In life, Sumner Redstone expended considerable energy to promote his legend as a daring and cutthroat media mogul who amassed one of the world’s largest collections of TV and film assets.