Celador is a British entertainment company formed in 1983 by Jasper Carrot and Paul Smith that is best known for creating the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?". It has had success in film production, winning eight Oscars for "Slumdog Millionaire" in 2009. Though it has faced challenges from being taken over and having to regain independence, Celador continues operating as an independent production company through project-based film and television productions.

2. Celador History
 Celador is a huge global entertainment company which was formed in 1983.
 It is best known for “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?”
 They also successfully sued Disney over rights of who wants to be an millionaire, it
took them 6 years but they won, they won $320 million,
 Jasper Carrot and Paul Smith were the ones who created Celador.
 It has eight Oscars including best director and best picture in 2009 for Slumdog
Millionaire.
 They have been taken over by Complete Communication
 They have brought there self back so now they are and independent Production
company,

3. Ownership
 Paul Smith is the chairman who is the founder of
Celador Entertainment.
 Mark Johnson is the commercial director,
 Stephen Dover is the non-executive director of
Celador,
 Jasper Carrot was the part-owner of the production
company,

4. Celador Productions
Films
 Dirty pretty things (2002)
 Separate lies (2005)
 The descent (2006)
 Slumbog millionaire (2009)
 The Descent part 2 (2009)
 The scouting book for boys (2010)
 Selma (2015)

5. Celador Productions
T.V.
 All about me (BBC)
 The detectives (BBC)
 You are what you eat (Channel 4)
 Its bean a bad week (BBC radio 2)
 The hypnotic world of Paul McKenna
 National lottery winnings
 Richard digance’s greatest bits
 Commercial breakdown
 Talking telephone numbers
 Winning lines
 Joi, you're the real deal

6. Celador Productions
Radio
 The Breeze
 JACK FM
 Fire Radio
Theater
 Slumdog Millionaire the Musical is was in production for
launching in London's West End in 2012.

7. Operating Model
 Celador is a production company that makes film but only on a
project-by-project basis.
 They are only allowed to make certain films, or TV programs.
 They get their funding through bank loans, investors, or they
could do it by personal finance.
 Celador could/might get together with other small companies
and make a film by putting all of their money together.
 They also distribute fees by the distributor before its made,
 This is how the Descent was funded,

8. How the Descent was
funded
 The film was co produced with Pathé, they sold the
distribution rights to co-fund the film.
 They put their profit of the previous film into the
budget to help fund the rest of the budget.
 This film was also made on a project-by project
bases, the production team were all freelancers.

9. Competition & Market
Position
 Celador Entertainment has loads of competition with
the box office and DVD sales,
 Celador have only made seven films in the last ten
years and they are quite popular,
 Even though it is a small production company, they
have huge compaction amongst other growing
production companies, and they are growing bigger.

10. Celador Vs. Sony
The Descendants
 It made Box Office
 Budget: £3,500,000
(estimated)
 Opening Weekend:
$174,616 (Australia) (24
November 2006)
 Gross: $419,970
(Australia) (1 December
2006)
Spiderman 2
• Box Office
• Budget: $200,000,000
(estimated)
• Opening Weekend:
$6,377,737 (Italy) (17
September 2004)
• Gross: $373,377,893
(USA) (12 November
2004)

11. Competitions
DNA
 It is a small production company,
 28 weeks later by DNA had a budget of £5000000,
however it made $64238440 at the box office,
Film 4 Productions
 Best known as the Imbetweeners movie,
 It had a budget of £3.5 million, however it made
$88025781

12. Who’s successful
 DNA made about £59238440 profit
 Film4 made about £88025777.2 profit
 Sony made about £179755630 profit
 Celador made about £2000000 profit
 So that makis Film4 and Sony the successful