Searchlight Pictures (UK) Limited
Registered name: SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES (UK) LIMITED
Part of The Walt Disney Company groupSearchlight Pictures (UK) Limited made £5m revenue and £432k profit in the year to 27 Sep 2025. read from filing text
Searchlight Pictures (UK) Limited’s revenue was £5m in the year to 27 Sep 2025, with £432k profit and 9 employees. The company is classified under “other business support service activities” and is based in London; we hold 5 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 23 yrs · since 2003
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently. From the filing: “The immediate parent is”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2021 | 30 Jun 2022 | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 27 Sep 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £1.1m | £3.8m | £4.5m | £3.7m | £5m |
| Cost of sales | £1.1m | £3.5m | £4.1m | £3.4m | £5m |
| Gross profit | £45.4k | £324k | £381k | £235k | £4.2k |
| Operating profit | — | — | — | £202k | −£35.8k |
| Profit before tax | £31.6k | £304k | £358k | £953k | £432k |
| Profit after tax | £31.6k | £304k | £358k | £953k | £432k |
| Profit (best available) | £31.6k | £304k | £358k | £953k | £432k |
| Staff costs | £0 | £2.5m | £3.2m | £2.7m | £3.9m |
| Employees (average) | 0 | 11 | 17 | 10 | 9 |
| Ratios | |||||
| Profit margin | 2.9% | 7.9% | 7.9% | 26% | 8.6% |
| Gross margin | 4.1% | 8.5% | 8.4% | 6.4% | 0.1% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £348k | £266k | £367k | £557k |
| Profit per employee | — | £27.6k | £21.1k | £95.3k | £48k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲245.6% | ▲18.1% | ▼18.8% | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▲862.3% | ▲17.9% | ▲165.8% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | — | ▲54.5% | ▼41.2% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||||
| Cash at bank | £1.1m | £639k | £553k | £698k | £633k |
| Net assets | £9.3m | £9.6m | £10m | £11.6m | £1.3m |
| Current assets | £9.4m | £13.6m | £13.4m | £12.9m | — |
| Debtors | £8.4m | £12.9m | £12.9m | £12.2m | £2.4m |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | Accounts · bulk data Mar 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Mar 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 8.6%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 0.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £557k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £48k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 48.1%
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- —
- Now £1.3m
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £633k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 9
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- The Walt Disney Company (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Searchlight Pictures (UK) Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (6)
- SL UK Productions 3 LimitedRev. £4.4m · Profit £7.8k
- SL UK Productions 2 LimitedRev. £73.1k · Profit £0
- SL UK Productions 1 LimitedRev. £27.9k · Profit £0
- SL UK Productions 4 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- SL UK Productions 5 LimitedFigures not disclosed
- SL UK Productions 6 LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 27 Sep 2025 (profit £432k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jun 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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