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Producer of Hunger Games, Rouge One: A Star Wars Story, Dies Of Lung Cancer

Producer of Hunger Games, Rouge One: A Star Wars Story, Dies Of Lung Cancer
  • PublishedJanuary 22, 2018

Allison Shearmur, was a executive at Paramount and Lionsgate before she became a full time producer who produced the Hunger Games films, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and the upcoming Solo: A Star Wars Story, has  died unexpectedly on Friday at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles after a battle with lung cancer at the age of 54.

She was an executive producer on 2017’s Power Rangers and was casting Disney’s The One and Only Ivan, which she was producing with Angelina Jolie.

She is survived by her husband, film composer Edward Shearmur; daughter Imogen and son Anthony; parents Martin and Rhoda Becker; brothers and sisters Jodi (and husband Fred Proust), John (and Heather Brecker) and Lisa (and Alan Hartstein); and seven nephews and nieces.

 

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