Thomas Phillips

Celador Films

By Thomas Phillips

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Ownership• Celador was formed in 1983 and has produced a number of shows and

films. Most known for the show Who Want to Be a Millionaire and co-producing Slumdog Millionaire.

• Celador is part of a larger company Global Light Entertainment Company. They did this around the same time they sold Who Want To Be A Millionaire to the Dutch group 2waytraffic.

• In 2004 Celador took legal action towards Disney from what they was unpaid profits from Disney’s screening of a program in the US.

• They have produced 11 TV shows, 6 film (in production of the 7th), 1 musical and 15 radio stations around the UK.

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Operating ModelSmall independent production company in the UK, they have many ways of being funded to make the money for their films. Some of these ways are:• Initial CapitalisationThis is where companies get a set amount of money to fund their film production. They get this money from, bank loans, personal finance and credit cards for film makers. They could also get funding from film finding body like, Screen West Midlands, Lottery and many more.• Project CapitalisationInstead of being set up with a production fund, companies may attract finance from those same sources for certain projects. Companies may also reinvest money from previous projects if there are any funds left to spend.• Co-funding and partnersCompanies will work with other companies to co-fund a project, many small independent UK companies do this to get a films in production when they can’t fund it by themselves. • Distribution feesCompanies may sell their films to distributors before they have even finished the film, the distributor is then guaranteed a final product, some companies like Film4 Production and BBC films will use matching funding, this acts like the distributors paying up front, then retaining the distribution rights to the product.• LicensingSmall companies will do deals with big production companies, in return for a small some of money the small companies will give the big companies first refusal to develop or distribute their projects.

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ProductsThe production company have developed and own many Films, TV shows and Radio stations.

Films:• Centurion• The Scouting Book for Boys• The Descent• Slumdog Millionaire • Separate Lies• The Decent• Dirty Pretty Things

TV Shows All About Me BBC•The Detectives BBC •Many Jasper Carrott stand up shows, such as Canned Carrott •You Are What You Eat Channel 4 •It's Been a Bad Week BBC Radio 2 topical comedy starring Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis, Sue Perkins, Mitch Benn & Toby Longworth •The Hypnotic World of Paul McKenna National Lottery Winning Lines Richard Digance's Greatest Bits Commercial Breakdown Talking Telephone Numbers Winning Lines

The Breeze NetworkThe Breeze (South Hampshire)

The Breeze (Bristol) The Breeze (Bath)

The Breeze (Sedgemoor & West Somerset)

The Breeze (Yeovil & South Somerset)

The Breeze (Frome & West Wiltshire)

The Breeze (Andover)The Breeze (Newbury)

The Breeze (North Dorset)

Jack FM Stations106 Jack FM (South Coast)

106 Jack FM (Bristol)107 Jack FM (Swindon)

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Market PositionThe marketing is all about advertising the film, getting it out there, then it leads to a good first few week in sales. This helps to overcome the other rival TV and Film companies, good sales means more popularity, so more people will watch what this company makes in time to come.

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CompetitorsCelador films production is successful even though it has only made 7 films in a 10 year period.

It’s competitors are:DNA Films- A British production company founded by Duncan Kenworthy and Andrew MacdonaldFilm4 Productions- A British film production company owned by Cannel Four Television Corporation.Sony pictures entertainment- A television and film production company owned by the Japanese.

Celador are very big in the UK, which is a big achievement, however compared to some of the big Hollywood film companies they are nothing. They don’t have the millions of pounds like Hollywood, so this is why when a big film is going to be produced, they would rather go to a company which can fund a lot more for their film than having a quarter of what they would possibly need to make the next big film. But Celador can fund some what a decent amount of money to the a big film, for example Slumdog Millionaire a film which won lots of awards and was the must watch film of they year in 2009.