Weinstein Co. merging acquisition, prod'n arms

SellersGigliottiLawson The Weinstein Clients are merging its acquisition and production departments and getting in former Unique Pictures production professional Dylan Retailers to mind the brand new combined division.New department, that will coalesce through the finish from the month, includes about ten to twelve employees. No current TWC staff is going to be release included in the merger, based on an insider.Retailers, who offered as senior production professional in the Warner Bros.-based Unique, oversaw the business's West coast development and production procedures. Formerly a production professional at twentieth century Fox, he gone to live in creating, most lately on Paramount's "Footloose" in addition to WB's "A Cinderella Story."Simultaneously, purchases mind Peter Lawson is poised to exit the organization when his contract expires in the finish from the month. Lawson, that has drenched fifteen years with TWC, will proceed to Thunder Road.Production prexy Donna Gigliotti, whose credits include the 2011 "The Silver Textures Playbook" in addition to 2008's "The Readers," can also be altering positions, switching to some creating cope with the organization.TWC has already established a powerful concentrate on both purchases and productions. Company launched greater than a dozen pick-ups this past year and it is presently creating "Playbook" and "Django Unchained." A proceed to merge the development and purchases departments doesn't surprise some experts, who state that the 2 overlapped sometimes."It only is sensible for (TWC co-mind) Harvey Weinstein to mix both of these divisions together," noted one insider. Contact Rachel Abrams at Rachel.Abrams@variety.com