Fireball Films Limited
Registered name: FIREBALL FILMS LIMITED
Part of Comcast Corporation groupFireball Films Limited made £1.3m revenue and £15k profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Fireball Films Limited’s revenue was £1.3m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £15k profit and 0 employees. The company is classified under “motion picture production activities” and is based in London; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 5 yrs · since 2021
- 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 company's immediate parent undertaking is Universal Pictures Limited, a company registered in England and Wales.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Aug 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £86.3m | £4.7m | £1.3m |
| Cost of sales | £101m | £5.4m | £1.8m |
| Gross profit | −£14.5m | −£723k | −£519k |
| Profit before tax | −£14.6m | −£273k | £61.2k |
| Profit after tax | £7.3k | £15k | £15k |
| Profit (best available) | £7.3k | £15k | £15k |
| Staff costs | £1.5m | £0 | — |
| Employees (average) | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 0% | 0.3% | 1.2% |
| Gross margin | −16.8% | −15.4% | −41.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £2.8m | — | — |
| Profit per employee | £237 | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £3.2m | £10.5k | £12.1k |
| Net assets | £35k | £15k | £30k |
| Current assets | £26.8m | £4.6m | £2.5m |
| Debtors | £23.6m | £4.6m | £2.5m |
| Deferred income | £8.1m | £3.6m | £2.5m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.2%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- −41.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- 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
- 196.3%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 200.1%
- 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 £30k
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £12.1k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 0
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £2.5m
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Comcast Corporation (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Universal Pictures Group (UK) Limited75–100%
- Universal Pictures Limited75–100%
- Fireball Films Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
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From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £15k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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