Lorenzo di Bonaventura

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Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Lorenzo di Bonaventura by Gage Skidmore.jpg
di Bonaventura at Comic Con in 2010
Born (1957-01-13) January 13, 1957 (age 65)
Alma materChoate Rosemary Hall
Harvard University
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
OccupationFilm producer
Spouse(s)
Kimberly di Bonaventura
(m. 1996; div. 2015)

Brooke di Bonaventura
(m. 2018)
Children2

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
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]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "LORENZO DI BONAVENTURA TO RECEIVE CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD". www.zff.com. Zurich Film Festival. August 23, 2016. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
  2. ^ Moon, Transformers At The. "Lorenzo di Bonaventura - June 2007 - Transformers At The Moon - www.transformertoys.co.uk".
  3. ^ Weinstein, Joshua L. (11 October 2010). "Di Bonaventura on a bonny venture". Variety.
  4. ^ "Mario di Bonaventura (Composer) - Short Biography". www.bach-cantatas.com. Bach Cantatas Website. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
  5. ^ "About | Represent.Us". End corruption. Defend the Republic. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
  6. ^ "Lorenzo di Bonaventura ·". www.cgu.edu.

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