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UK film financier Prescience, is having a shake up. The company, which is notably known as being the majority financier of British box-office and Oscar success The King's Speech, is rebranding to its affiliate fledgling company Hindsight Media Services. The move will see Hindsight replace Prescience, with Hindsight…

Film financier Prescience has launched subsidiary Ignition Media Finance to provide short term media finance and pre-production funding for producers. During the last decade, Prescience, directly or via Hindsight and Bridgeworks, has lent in excess of $100m to film and TV companies in the US, UK and Europe, including T…

EXCLUSIVE: There have been seismic shifts in the UK's indie distribution sector over the past few months, and more are in the cards. In what could be seen as a healthy sign for the industry, we're hearing that Icon Distribution is set to re-emerge, backed by film fund Prescience, financier of The King's Speech. The Ico…

Mandalay Pictures is moving its prestige pic division Mandalay Vision from New York to Los Angeles and has named Matthew Rhodes its new Vision president. At the same time, Mandalay owner Peter Guber and president Cathy Schulman have locked a new two-year funding deal with Tim Smith’s Prescience, financier of The King’s…

Ealing Metro International and The King’s Speech financier Prescience will finance and sell worldwide rights on Bailout, a Michael Winterbottom-directed comedy that will star Jack Black. The film is based on the Jess Walter novel The Financial Lives of The Poets. Walter adapted his novel, which follows the…

Ealing Studios and The King’s Speech financier Prescience has merged their respective sales arms. The companies previously worked together on both St. Trinian's films, Dorian Gray and Easy Virtue. They say combining gives them "a unique advantage," because of the money that Prescience brings to the table. They also…

In America, The Weinstein Co has received most of the PR bonanza for backing Oscar-touted The King’s Speech. But it’s really a British film financing company aptly named Prescience that first recognized the film’s potential. With an office in Beaconsfield, a quaint market town 20 miles outside of London, the…