Celador is a British television and film production company founded in 1983 that is best known for producing the game show "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?". It was originally independent but was later acquired by other companies before management completed a buyout. Celador earns money through various means of financing including initial capitalization, project capitalization, and co-funding partnerships with other small companies. Some of Celador's notable film productions include Dirty Pretty Things, The Descent, and Slumdog Millionaire. Though successful, Celador is considered relatively small compared to larger competitors in the film industry like Sony Pictures Entertainment and Film4 who have greater financial resources.

2. WHO OWNS CELADOR?
Celador started up in 1983, it was originally independent being originally named
Celador Television; which had a major TV programme ‘Who Wants To Be A
Millionaire?’ this boosted their reputation. Soon Celador was taken over by
Complete Communication, however they planned to sell the company to Dutch
group 2waytraffic and Celador Productions’ management completed a buy out of
the company.
Celador also offered the rights to ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’ for sale, in
addition, they sued Disney for screening the programme in the U.S and they got
£177 million.

3. OPERATING MODEL
Celador, being a small company, have many ways of making money for the films they
produce.
1. The first way they make money is by using Initial Capitalisation, this basically is
how companies are set up with a fund that they use in production. What this
means is that they get funds from, Investors, bank loans and others.
2. Project Capitalisation is another way of getting funding and this is rather than
being set up with funds they attract funds from sources for a project.
3. Co-funding and Partnerships this is were a lot of smaller companies join together
and make a film which all of them have a part in. There are many other ways to
get money for films but these are just a few examples.

4. PRODUCTS BY CELADOR
The films that Celador have are as follows:
1. Dirty Pretty Things
2. Separate Lines
3. The Descent
4. Slumdog Millionaire
5. The Descent part 2
6. The Scouting Book for Boys

5. COMPETITORS
Though Celador are a successful film company they are pretty small compared to
Film4, Sony Pictures Entertainment and DNA films, who are bigger and have a
higher budget than Celador so they can make bigger films than Celador. Sony
Pictures Entertainment is a conglomerate of Hollywood meaning that they can
produce major feature films, that Celador wouldn’t be able to get the funds for.
Film4 is another competitor even though it’s smaller than Sony Picture
Entertainment but are still larger than Celador even though they’ve become
smaller since 2002, they also share links with Celador through T.V. and film.