The Runner Films Limited
Registered name: THE RUNNER FILMS LIMITED
Part of Mill Street Media Limited groupThe Runner Films Limited made £22.5m revenue and £20.5k profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025. read from filing text
The Runner Films Limited’s revenue was £22.5m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £20.5k profit and 91 employees. The company is classified under “motion picture production activities” and is based in London; we hold 2 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 2 yrs · since 2024
- 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”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Oct 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||
| Revenue (turnover) | £0 | £22.5m |
| Cost of sales | £0 | £27.5m |
| Gross profit | £0 | −£5.1m |
| Profit before tax | £0 | £1.7m |
| Profit after tax | £0 | £20.5k |
| Profit (best available) | £0 | £20.5k |
| Staff costs | £0 | £2m |
| Employees (average) | 0 | 91 |
| Ratios | ||
| Profit margin | — | 0.1% |
| Gross margin | — | −22.6% |
| Revenue per employee | — | £247k |
| Profit per employee | — | £225 |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||
| Cash at bank | £0 | £3.3m |
| Net assets | £1 | £20.5k |
| Current assets | £1 | £13.3m |
| Debtors | £1 | £10m |
| Deferred income | £0 | £2.6m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- −22.6%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £247k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £225
- 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
- 11.6%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 44.4%
- 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 £20.5k
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now £3.3m
- Headcount
- —
- Now 91
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £2.6m
- 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
- Mill Street Media Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Rockwood Pictures Limited75–100%
- The Runner Films Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit £20.5k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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