Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Lorenzo di Bonaventura | |
|---|---|
di Bonaventura at Comic Con in 2010 | |
| Born | January 13, 1957 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Choate Rosemary Hall Harvard University Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Film producer |
| Spouse(s) | Kimberly di Bonaventura
(m. 1996; div. 2015)Brooke di Bonaventura
(m. 2018) |
| Children | 2 |
Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Italian pronunciation: [loˈrɛntso di ˌbɔnavenˈtuːra]; born January 13, 1957) is an American film producer and founder and owner of Di Bonaventura Pictures. He is best known for producing the G.I. Joe and Transformers film series. The films he has produced have made over $7 billion at the box office.[1]
Life and career[edit]
Di Bonaventura spent the 1990s as an executive at Warner Bros. Pictures, eventually rising to president of worldwide production. His production company Di Bonaventura Pictures is based at Paramount Pictures. His tenure at Warner Bros. included discovering and shepherding The Matrix into production, and the purchase of the rights to the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling.
Di Bonaventura has purchased the film rights to the six-part series of fantasy novels The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott.[2] Di Bonaventura said that Scott's "fantastic series is a natural evolution from 'Harry Potter'."
In the documentary Side by Side, he criticized the ubiquitousness of inexpensive high quality cameras for essentially allowing anyone to become a filmmaker, potentially saturating the media landscape with awful entertainment that the masses wouldn't be able to distinguish from works by conventionally trained persons. His argument stated that the new media landscape is flawed due to lack of a "tastemaker".
Personal life[edit]
Di Bonaventura graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall and Harvard University. He later received an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[3] His father, Mario di Bonaventura, was a symphony conductor, and his uncle, Anthony di Bonaventura, was a concert pianist.[4]
Di Bonaventura serves as chair of the Creative Council for Represent.Us, a nonpartisan anti-corruption organization.[5] He has served on the Claremont Graduate University Board of Trustees since 2015.[6]
Filmography[edit]
Producer[edit]
Paramount Pictures[edit]
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Four Brothers | John Singleton | |
| 2007 | Shooter | Antoine Fuqua | |
| Transformers | Michael Bay | With DreamWorks Pictures | |
| Stardust | Matthew Vaughn | ||
| 2009 | Imagine That | Karey Kirkpatrick | |
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Michael Bay | With DreamWorks Pictures | |
| G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra | Stephen Sommers | ||
| 2011 | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Michael Bay | Paramount Pictures |
| 2013 | G.I. Joe: Retaliation | Jon M. Chu | With Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 2014 | Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit | Kenneth Branagh | |
| Transformers: Age of Extinction | Michael Bay | ||
| 2017 | Transformers: The Last Knight | ||
| 2018 | Bumblebee | Travis Knight | |
| 2019 | Pet Sematary | Kevin Kölsch Dennis Widmyer |
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| 2021 | Infinite | Antoine Fuqua | Via Paramount+ |
| Snake Eyes | Robert Schwentke | With Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |
| 2023 | Transformers: Rise of the Beasts | Steven Caple Jr. | |
| TBA | G.I. Joe: Ever Vigilant | D.J. Caruso | |
| Untitled animated Transformers film | Josh Cooley | ||
| Untitled Transformers film | Angel Manuel Soto | ||
| Untitled Pet Sematary prequel | Lindsey Beer | Via Paramount+ |
Summit Entertainment[edit]
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Red | Robert Schwentke | |
| 2012 | Man on a Ledge | Asger Leth | |
| 2013 | Red 2 | Dean Parisot | |
| 2017 | Only the Brave | Joseph Kosinski | With Columbia Pictures |
Lionsgate Films[edit]
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | The Last Stand | Kim Jee-woon | |
| 2016 | Deepwater Horizon | Peter Berg | With Summit Entertainment |
| 2017 | Unlocked | Michael Apted | |
| American Assassin | Michael Cuesta | ||
| TBA | The Plane | Jean-François Richet |
Warner Bros. Pictures[edit]
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Constantine | Francis Lawrence | |
| 2018 | The Meg | Jon Turteltaub | |
| 2023 | Meg 2: The Trench | Ben Wheatley |
Others[edit]
| Year | Title | Director | Distributor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Doom | Andrzej Bartkowiak | Universal Pictures |
| Derailed | Mikael Håfström | Miramax Films | |
| 2007 | 1408 | Dimension Films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |
| 2010 | Salt | Phillip Noyce | Sony Pictures Releasing |
| 2013 | Side Effects | Steven Soderbergh | Open Road Films |
| 2015 | Electric Slide (Uncredited) | Tristan Patterson | Paragon Releasing |
| 2017 | Kidnap | Luis Prieto | Relativity Media Aviron Pictures |
| 2018 | Higher Power | Matthew Charles Santoro | Magnet Releasing |
| Replicas | Jeffrey Nachmanoff | Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures | |
| 2020 | The Secrets We Keep | Yuval Adler | Bleecker Street |
Executive producer[edit]
| Year | Title | Director | Distributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | The Devil Inside | William Brent Bell | Insurge Pictures |
| 2015 | Dead Rising: Watchtower | Zach Lipovsky | Crackle |
| 2016 | Dead Rising: Endgame (Uncredited) | Pat Williams | |
| 2018 | Maze Runner: The Death Cure | Wes Ball | 20th Century Fox |
| Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich | Sonny Laguna Tommy Wiklund |
RLJE Films | |
| El Chicano | Ben Hernandez Bray | Briarcliff Entertainment | |
| 2019 | Doom: Annihilation | Tony Giglio | Universal 1440 Entertainment |
Television[edit]
- Zero Hour (2013)
- The Real O'Neals (2016–2017)
- Shooter (2016–2018)
- Jupiter's Legacy (2021)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "LORENZO DI BONAVENTURA TO RECEIVE CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD". www.zff.com. Zurich Film Festival. August 23, 2016. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
- ^ Moon, Transformers At The. "Lorenzo di Bonaventura - June 2007 - Transformers At The Moon - www.transformertoys.co.uk".
- ^ Weinstein, Joshua L. (11 October 2010). "Di Bonaventura on a bonny venture". Variety.
- ^ "Mario di Bonaventura (Composer) - Short Biography". www.bach-cantatas.com. Bach Cantatas Website. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
- ^ "About | Represent.Us". End corruption. Defend the Republic. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
- ^ "Lorenzo di Bonaventura ·". www.cgu.edu.