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“Star Wars” and “Hunger Games” producer Allison Shearmur died Friday after a battle with lung cancer, according to the Hollywood Reporter. She was 54.
Shearmur worked as a producer on some of the biggest movie franchises in Hollywood in recent years, including “A Star Wars Story” and the upcoming “Solo: A Star Wars Story.”
She also produced the “Hunger Games” movie series and worked on casting Disney’s “The One and Only Ivan” with Angelina Jolie.
Before she transitioned to producing, Shearmur was an executive at Paramount and Lionsgate studios. Prior to moving to Paramount, Shearmur was at Universal.
She brought the “Bourne Identity” franchise to Universal and oversaw production of the first three movies in the series.
Shearmur also had a softer touch, developing the “American Pie” series and the romantic comedy “Along Came Polly” as well as the Julia Roberts hit “Erin Brockovich.”
A 1985 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Shearmur launched her film and TV career by winning a school contest. The prize was lunch with Oscar-winning producer Stanley Jaffe of Columbia Pictures. Jaffe hired her as an assistant.
Shearmur was married to British film composer Ed Shearmur.
Colleagues from Hollywood to New York mourned her passing.
“Alli was a ferocious fighter who rose to the top of Hollywood, first as an executive and then as a producer, all while raising two amazing children, being an incredible mother to Imogen and Anthony. She was not only my producer. She was a great friend,” said director Doug Liman.
“She was a quadruplet,” Liman said, adding that Shearmur was “extremely close to her siblings whom she called her quads.”
“Those who mistook Alli’s small size for a lack of power were quickly disabused of that notion,” Liman recalled.
“I hope her legacy is an inspiration to women throughout Hollywood for many years to come.”