Celador is an entertainment company originally founded in 1983 that produces films, television shows, radio stations, and theater productions. It started as an independent film studio and produced successful shows like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and films like Dirty Pretty Things and Slumdog Millionaire. Though now smaller, Celador funds new projects through investments, co-productions, and profits from past successes. As an independent studio, Celador faces competition from larger studios like Sony Pictures but continues producing films on smaller budgets.

1. Celador Films
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2. Ownership
 Celador is a entertainment company originally formed as an
independent film production company in 1983 set up by Paul
Smith CBE and Jasper Carrott. It has produced a number of
popular light entertainment shows and is known for Who Wants to
Be a Millionaire? and also co-producing the film Slumdog
Millionaire. Celador also owns eighteen UK radio stations. Celador
was taken over by Complete communications and this expanded
into films and radio. Celador got sold by Complete
communications to Celador. Celador films was established in
1999, and their first production was Dirty Pretty things this film was
very successful and received nine industry awards with an Oscar
for best original screenplay. Celador then brought itself out of the
company and now it is independent again, Complete
Communications were going to sell the rights to Two Way Traffic
but they were able to buy themselves out and are now an
independent company.

3. Operating Model
 Celador is only a small company which produces films and other media
content. Small production companies like Celador are funded through initial
capitalisation and his can be seen through investors in a certain project or
even by personal finance for example from profit from a previous successful
project. They can also fund for new projects with co-funding and partnerships
this was done for The Decent when they sold the distribution rights before the
film was made to Pathé.
 Selling distribution rights is usually a good option for smaller companies and
allows them to receive funding from different sources. Celador can also sell
the distribution rights from a previous project and also can license a particular
project to much bigger production company that might be interested to gain
more funding. Celador provides can provide funds and also obtain funds from
bigger organisations or even use profit from previous films like The Decent.
When Celador are creating new films they hire a crew that then they work with
on the a new project.

4. Products
 Celador started making its films in 1999 and have produced seven films theses are:
 Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
 Separate Lies (2005)
 The Descent (2009)
 Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
 Centurion (2010)
 Selma (2014)
 They are still working on film production, radio broadcasting, theatrical production and music publishing. They have two
radio stations called the Breeze and Jack fm.
 The scouting book for boys (2009)
 They also produced for TV shows; All About Me, The Detectives and You Are What You Eat.
 They also are involved in theatre as they have has Celador Theatrical Company it was established in 1989 but only then made
successful 2009. In 2012 they made a musical version for Slumdog Millionaire which proved to be very successful.
 They also have a music record company which started in 2003 and is known as Lusam Music an international music publishing
company that is primarily representing the works of composers of television and film music of the highest quality

5. Marketing and Competitors
 Celador Films are in competition with other smaller film production
companies in terms of ticket sales and DVD film sale and in the
international market. Celador productions is only a small company
but it is still successful in the film industry. In the film industry
Celador still has a lot of competition regards internationally with
bigger companies and competitors, one of their biggest
competitors are Sony with Sony Pictures Entertainment. Sony is a
huge film company and has released very successful films, such
as The Amazing Spider-man and The Smurths. Sony spends 100+
million on film projects compared to Calador productions which
considerably less to spend on a new project. Sony Pictures
Entertainment also release much more movies per year, where
compared to Celador have only released 7 films and this is
considerably different as Sony is a much more powerful
organisation due to the budget and movies they have.

6. Examples
 Celador Productions
 The Descent is a film that was produced by Celador in 2005 its buget was £3,500,000 and on
its opening weekend it opened with $174,616 with a gross of $419,970.
 Slumdog Millionaire was a film released in 2009 and produced by Celador productions along
side Warner Bros and its budget was $15,000,000 and opening weekend it made £1,827,457
with a gross of $141,310,195.
 Sony Pictures Entertainment
 Elysium was a film produced by Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2013 and the budget was
$115,000,000 at its opening weekend it made $29,807,393 with a gross of $93,050,117.
 Spiderman 3, was a film produced by Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2007 and its budget
was $258,000,000 with an opening weekend of £11,827,013 with a gross of $336,530,303.
 Celador productions is still a very successful business but it has a dramatically smaller budget
compared to big organisations like Sony Pictures Entertainment and Celador also release less
movies in a year compared to Sony this is because Sony has more market share and is huge
compared to Celador.