Celador Films

Ownership

Celador films were founded in 1983 by Jasper Carrott.

Jasper Carrot was the reason the company was set up due to needing a company to produce his tv show.

Celador was bought by complete communications.

Celador films are part of Celador Entertainment as they are an independent company who refuse to be bought by a bigger company, for now. Although they had previously been bought, they bought them selves back.

Operating model

Celador is a small production company which makes films on a project basis. they contract freelance staff to get there films made, which means that they are there only to make a certain type of film.

Small company's like this normally get there funding from initial capitalism e.g bank loans they also got a substantially large funding pathe who payed for distribution.

The decent got funded by putting its own profit into a new project (the decent) who then sold the distribution rights to Pathe. The sale of these distribution rights were then used to create the full film.

Products

Celador has been making films since 1999, some of the films they have produced are:

The decent (2005)

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

Dirty Pretty Things (2002)

They are currently working on fim production, radio broadcasting, theatrical production and music publishing.

Also celador produce radio and theater, which is quite successful. They have a radio station called breeze fm.

Market Position

Celador films are in competition with ticket sales and then when the DVD is released.

Even though celador are a small company they are pretty successful.

Sony are big competitors of celador films due to there big budget releases when Celador only make cheep films.

Celador are in competition with other companies such as film 4 and Sony. Film four released films such as this is England. Sony produced films such as the amazing spider man two. There is an obvious comparison between sony and celedor.

Competitors

Celador although a small business has released 8 films in 15 years.

3 of celador competitors are Sony Entertainment, film 4, Vertigo.

The decent (celador 2005) budget: 3.5 million, gross profit worldwide: $57,029,609

The amazing spiderman 2 (sony entertainment 2014) Budget: $200,000,000 Gross Budget: $703.664.064

This is England (film 4 2006) budget: £1,500,000 opening weekend profit UK £207,676