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,

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,

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)

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

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.

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,

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.

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.

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)

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

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