Celador Entertainment is an independent British production company formed in 1983 that produces light entertainment and television shows. It experienced early success with shows like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire but was later bought by another company before regaining independence. Celador operates with a small production model relying on partnerships and co-productions for funding and distribution. Some of its most well-known and successful productions include Slumdog Millionaire, The Descent, and various shows by Jasper Carrott. While smaller than major studio competitors, Celador has achieved box office returns that exceed its budgets more so than some larger production companies on films like The Descent.

1. By Zachary Buchanan

2. Celador Introduction/Ownership
 Celador entertainment is a independent production company which
was originally formed in 1983, and has produced a great amount of
“light entertainment” based shows such as Who wants to be a
millionaire.
Ownership
 Down the line of their early success the company was brought out by
“Complete Communication” and shareholders Paul Smith and Jasper
Carrott. But after gaining fame and getting more popular and finally
gathering enough money Celador finally departed from Complete and
brought back their company before Complete had the chance to sell it
to 2waytraffic whom they would later do business with. an thus became
a independent company again.
 Another Problem accrued in 2004 where Celador sued against Disney
claimed were unpaid profits from Disney screening of the programmed
in the US. Celador was awarded £177m
 It was also in business with 2waytraffic (A Dutch group) and sold Who
wants to be a Millionaire.

3. Operating Model
 Since Celador is a small company it may have various problems when
coming to creating projects since it hasn’t got house production but they
actually have production crews on a project to project basic. By passing
along projects to an company called Northman which actually made the
film and the crew would have been free lancers.
 During making a project companies will worry about various problems
such as Licensing where small companies will do great deals with a big
production company. In return the small (independent) companies will
give the big company first refusal to distribute projects and the fee could
be enough to cover the small companies administrate costs.
 Companies will do deals with other similar companies tons of
Independent UK films like Dirty Pretty Things are Co- Production will
small companies from other European companies.
 When making the Descent, Celador actually had to have help from
Pathe and actually co-funded the movie with them by Celador actually
selling distribution of the Descent to them.
 They also acquire money to produce films from bank loans, private
investment and film funding bodies.

4. Product
 Distribution Fees will be sold to other companies to help the original company’s fund
before it’s been made. The distributor is guaranteed a final product and the producer
gets the budget up front.
 Celador has tons of different products such as Radio, TV, Theater, Films where they
have co production with various other American ands English based where they
made famous hits like Slumdog Millionaire and The Descent.
 The most known projects that they have made are:
 Many Jasper Carrott It's Been a Bad Week The Hypnotic World of Paul McKenna
 Winning Lines
 Deal DMC.TV
 Talking Telephone Number
 National Lottery Winning lines
 Commercial Break down
 You are what you eat
 All About Me BBC
 The Detectives
 Richard Disgraces Greatest Bits

5. Market Position and
Competition
 Celador Films started off as an small independent business where they started of great but
having being bought out and then buying back there own company back after hard work and
creating There own Radio shows, Music, TV and Films.
 There are Three main Companies that rivals with Celador such as Sony, DNA and Film Four.
By comparing the biggest movies in their work to Celador with:
 The Descent having £3.5 million as budget and made over $57,051,054
 Sony having "The Amazing Spider" $230 million budget and making over $757,930,663
 DNA making "28 Days Later" and having a budget of £15 million and making over
$64,238,440
 And Film 4 making Shaun of the Dead having a budget of £6 million and making over
$30,039,392
 When comparing all of the company's and seeing who made the most out the company's
when considering how they spent compared to the actual marketing results. In comparison
from budget to marketing The Descent actual did the best having nearly 16 times more and
beating both Film 4 and when mentions budget/ box office they also beat DNA.
 however when we talk who made the most it was the Amazing Spider however only having 3
times, so when talking about completion Celador can stick it too the big company's in certain
times although in marketing they might not be the strongest.