“We are thrilled to have closed this long and painful chapter in our company's history,” says CEO André van Heerden. “While we received repeated judgments from the Courts that validated our rights, we were unable until now to finally put this lawsuit behind us.”   

 

The specific terms of the settlement are confidential, but Cloud Ten is permitted to confirm that the agreement resolves all disputes relating to the three films produced by Cloud Ten based upon the first and second books in the Left Behind series. The agreement also grants LaHaye an opportunity to remake the films based upon these books, which rights had been granted previously to Cloud Ten and Namesake Entertainment. “Cloud Ten was blessed with the opportunity to bring these stories, which have brought so many people to Christ, to life on the silver screen,” comments van Heerden, who also produced Cloud Ten's Left Behind films. “We are very pleased that Reverend LaHaye will get the opportunity to make the films he envisions out of these beloved books.” If LaHaye does not exercise his options to remake the films, then Cloud Ten will retain its current rights to make sequels to its Left Behind films.

 

All three films, Left Behind: The Movie, Left Behind: Tribulation Force, and Left Behind:World at War, are available on DVD and continue to be top sellers. The trilogy of films will soon be available in a special edition boxed set with a bonus documentary. In addition, Cloud Ten has recently re-released all three Left Behind titles to churches for public exhibition through Cloud Ten Church Cinemas.

 

With the lawsuit behind them, Cloud Ten plans to get back into active production and distribution of Christian-themed films. “We're releasing three new powerful films this year and are close to going into production on possibly another four for 2009,” says van Heerden. “A huge burden has been lifted and we can now get back to the great commission: reaching, challenging and inspiring others through the universal and dramatic medium of film.”