2. Ownership
• Celador was formed as an independent production company in
1983 and is a global light entertainment company.
• It has produced a number of popular light entertainment shows.
• Celador was then taken over Complete Communications
• Celador was then sold by Complete Communications and was
brought out by Celador Production.
• Celador films was established in 1999 and began production on
their first feature film Dirty Pretty Things which was later released
in 2002.
• Paul Smith CBE, is Chairman of Celador Entertainment Limited
which is the umbrella company for Celador Films, Celador
International Licensing, Celador Radio, Celador Theatrical and
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3. Operating Model
• Celador Films is a small film production company that produces
films on a project by project basis.
• They began as a TV production and later went into film production.
• Small companies such as Celador often find funding initial
capitilisation.
• Funding could also come from private investment and film funding
organisations.
• Freelancers are also used by Celedor, this means every member of
the crew is hired only for the specific project and there is no in
house crew.
• Distribution rights for their films such as the decent are sold early
to increase the budget for the production. Products were also
signed on for sponsorship to increase the budget for the film.
4. Products
• Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
• Separate Lies (2005)
• The Descent (2006)
• Slumdog Millionaire (2009)
• The Descent part 2 (2009)
• The Scouting Book for Boys (2010)
• Who wants to be a millionaire
• 18 UK radio stations
• Slum dog millionaire theater production
• All About Me BBC
• The Detectives BBC
• You Are What You Eat Channel 4
• The Hypnotic World of Paul McKenna
• National Lottery Winning Lines
• Richard Digance's Greatest Bits
• Talking telephone numbers
• Winning Lines
5. Market Position and competitors
• Celedor Film is often compared to DNA films and Film 4 production as all
are UK film production companies
• Comparing Celedor Films to a larger film production company such as
Sony.
• The Descent (Celedor Films): £3.5 million budget/ $57,051,053 box office
gross
• Spiderman 2 (Sony): $200 million budget/ $783.8 box office gross
• Love actually (DNA films): $45 million budget/ $246,942,017 box office
gross
• Shaun of the dead (working title): $6.1 million budget/ $30 million box
office gross
• Even though Celedor’s films have a lower budget than other companies
and gross around 20 times as much as the budget for the Decent the other
films all gross a higher amount of money are receive a better profit, expect
for Shaun of the dead which is only able to gross 5 times as much as its
budget.
• In order of how successful their films were: Sony, DNA films, Celedor films
and Working title
