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WHO OWNS CELADOR?

Celador started up in 1983, it was originally independent being originally named Celador Television; which had a major TV programme ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’ this boosted their reputation. Soon Celador was taken over by Complete Communication, however they planned to sell the company to Dutch group 2waytraffic and Celador Productions’ management completed a buy out of the company.

Celador also offered the rights to ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’ for sale, in addition, they sued Disney for screening the programme in the U.S and they got £177 million.

OPERATING MODEL

Celador, being a small company, have many ways of making money for the films they produce.

1. The first way they make money is by using Initial Capitalisation, this basically is how companies are set up with a fund that they use in production. What this means is that they get funds from, Investors, bank loans and others.

2. Project Capitalisation is another way of getting funding and this is rather than being set up with funds they attract funds from sources for a project.

3. Co-funding and Partnerships this is were a lot of smaller companies join together and make a film which all of them have a part in. There are many other ways to get money for films but these are just a few examples.

PRODUCTS BY CELADOR

The films that Celador have are as follows:

1. Dirty Pretty Things

2. Separate Lines

3. The Descent

4. Slumdog Millionaire

5. The Descent part 2

6. The Scouting Book for Boys

COMPETITORS

Though Celador are a successful film company they are pretty small compared to Film4, Sony Pictures Entertainment and DNA films, who are bigger and have a higher budget than Celador so they can make bigger films than Celador. Sony Pictures Entertainment is a conglomerate of Hollywood meaning that they can produce major feature films, that Celador wouldn’t be able to get the funds for. Film4 is another competitor even though it’s smaller than Sony Picture Entertainment but are still larger than Celador even though they’ve become smaller since 2002, they also share links with Celador through T.V. and film.