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Allegra is the eyes and ears for filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, helping to produce their prolific, varied slate. The UTA and William Morris alum was an executive producer on The Lego Batman Movie, a co-producer on The Lego Ninjago Movie and spent time in London with the duo when they were, temporarily, at the helm of the Han Solo spinoff, Solo: A Star Wars Story. The banner also just produced its first indie, Brigsby Bear, on which Allegra was a full-fledged producer, and is prepping a 23 Jump Street-Men in Black crossover. The ping-pong between animation and live action has given the engaged Wake Forest grad, who grew up making movies in his New Jersey backyard, a unique perspective: "With live action, you prep as much as you can and hope that you're in a good position come the first day of shooting," he says. "With animation, you start with editing first, which lets you experiment with the story a lot more and hammer out the issues before you put shots into production."

DYING TO WORK WITH "Kumail Nanjiani. He's the future of comedy."

POSTER ON MY CHILDHOOD WALL "Star Wars: A New Hope, the one with Luke Skywalker pointing the gun at you. No matter where you were in the room, Mark Hamill was staring at you."