Celador was founded in 1983 by Jasper Carrot and produced films and television shows, most notably creating the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?". In 1999, they were acquired by Complete Communications but later bought back their independence. Celador has had success producing films like "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Descent" on small budgets that generated significant profits. They operate by organizing project-by-project crews and financing productions through means like investment, loans, and distribution deals.

1. Celador
Mitchell Purnell

2. History
Celador was founded in 1983 by Jasper Carrot CBE
and was a small British business that produced films
but started with a TV show called The Detectives
created by Jasper Carrot and also staring Jasper
Carrot. When Celador made Slumdog Millionaire
they were bought out by complete communications
in 1999 but since the company made so much
money they bought their own company back.
Celador is now run by Danielle Lux after the they
bought themselves out they are now and
independent company again.

3. Ownership
Paul Smith CBE, is Chairman of Celador
Entertainment Limited which is the umbrella
company for Celador Films
In 2006 Celador took Disney to court for unpaid
profits for playing “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”
in the US. After trail by jury in LA in 2010 Celador
were awarded £177million in damages after ruling
they didn’t receive a fair share of profits.

4. Products
Celador also make a variety of films, tv shows and radio
shows.
The Descent Neil Marshall 2006 Film
Slumdog Millionaire Danny Boyles 2010 Film
Centurion Neil Marshall 2010 film
Scouting book for boys Tom Harper 2010 Film
The detectives Jasper Carrot 1993-1997 TV show
Taking Telephone Numbers David Briggs 1994-1997 TV show
The Breeze (Bristol) Radio also 17 other radio stations
Celador are also now moving into theater with Slumdog
Millionaire

5. Operating model
Celador aren't a huge corporation so they hire everyone for
each task they require people for like actors, camera crew,
technicians ect, they do this by a project by project basis. They
are a management company that organizes budgets and
finding the money to create the film. Celador also reinvest in
themselves to create new movies so they found the money for
the descent so they teamed up with Northman Productions to
make the Descent who then had to hire the personal however
Celador put some of their own profit into The Descent to help
fund it. They also got more funds through selling the
distribution rights to Pathe which they used to fund the
movie. With other films they could have got funding through
bank loans, private investment and film funding bodies.

6. Competitors
Celador The Descent Budget £3,500,000 Box office
£57,000,000 The audience is small and so is the budget however the profit is huge
more than 10x amd more.
Film 4 The Inbetweeners Budget £3,500,000
Box office £57,500,000
DNA films 28 Days Later Budget £8,000,000
Box office £52,800,000
Sony pictures entertainment Transformers Budget £150,000,000 Box office
£709,700,000
You can see by these figures that Celador are very successful compared to DNA films
when they produced 28 Days Later because their budget was £8,000,000 and turned
over £52,800,000 and Celadors budget for The Descent was £3,500,000 less than half
however they turned over £57,000,000 which was more 28 Days Later.