Lorenzo di Bonaventura

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 Transformers film series. The films he has produced have made over $7 billion at the box office.[1]

Lorenzo di Bonaventura
di Bonaventura at the 2010 Comic Con in San Diego
Born	(1957-01-13) 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 - 2015) Brooke di Bonaventura (m. 2018)
Children	2

Life and career

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. This new media landscape is flawed due to lack of a "tastemaker"—similar to how Steve Jobs complained that journalistic editorial content was now sorely lacking, mentioned at one of the Some Things Digital conferences.

Personal life

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

Year(s)	Title(s)	Director(s)	Writer(s)	Based on	Distributor(s)	Budget	Gross	Rotten Tomatoes
2005	Constantine	Francis Lawrence	Kevin Brodbin and Frank A. Cappello	John Constantine by Alan Moore Stephen R. Bissette John Totleben	Warner Bros. Pictures	$100 million	$230.9 million	46%[7]
	Four Brothers	John Singleton	David Elliot and Paul Lovett	The Sons of Katie Elder by Henry Hathaway	Paramount Pictures	$45 million	$92 million	52%[8]
	Doom	Andrzej Bartkowiak	David Callaham and Wesley Strick	Doom 1993 game by id Software	Universal Studios	$60 million	$10 million	19%
	Derailed	Mikael Håfström	Stuart Beattie	Derailed by James Siegel	The Weinstein Company Buena Vista International	$22 million	$57 million	20%[9]
2007	Shooter	Antoine Fuqua	Jonathan Lemkin	Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter	Paramount Pictures	$61 million	$95.7 million	48%[10]
	1408	Mikael Håfström	Matt Greenberg, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski	1408 by Stephen King	Dimension Films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$25 million	$132 million	78%[11]
	Transformers	Michael Bay	Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci	Transformers by Hasbro	DreamWorks Pictures Paramount Pictures	$150 million	$709.7 million	57%[12]
	Stardust	Matthew Vaughn	Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman	Stardust by Neil Gaiman	Paramount Pictures	$88.5 million	$135.6 million	76%[13]
2009	Imagine That	Karey Kirkpatrick	Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson	—	Paramount Pictures Nickelodeon Movies	$55 million	$22 million	40%[14]
	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	Michael Bay	Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Ehren Kruger	Transformers by Hasbro	DreamWorks Pictures Paramount Pictures	$200 million	$836.3 million	19%[15]
	G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra	Stephen Sommers	Stuart Beattie, David Elliot, Paul Lovett, Michael B. Gordon and Stephen Summers	G.I. Joe by Hasbro	Paramount Pictures	$175 million	$302.5 million	35%[16]
2010	Salt	Phillip Noyce	Kurt Wimmer	—	Columbia Pictures	$110 million	$293.5 million	62%
	Red	Robert Schwentke	Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber	Red by Warren Ellis Cully Hamner	Summit Entertainment	$58 million	$199 million	72%[17]
2011	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Michael Bay	Ehren Kruger	Transformers by Hasbro	Paramount Pictures	$195 million	$1.124 billion	35%[18]
2012	The Devil Inside	William Brent Bell	William Brent Bell and Matthew Peterman	—		$1 million	$101.8 million	6%[19]
	Man on a Ledge	Asger Leth	Pablo Fenjves	—	Summit Entertainment	$42 million	$46.2 million	31%[20]
2013	The Last Stand	Kim Jee-woon	Andrew Knauer	—	Lionsgate	$45 million	$48 million	60%[21]
	Side Effects	Steven Soderbergh	Scott Z. Burns	—	Open Road Films	$30 million	$60 million	83%
	G.I. Joe: Retaliation	Jon M. Chu	Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick	G.I. Joe by Hasbro	Paramount Pictures	$130 million[22]	$122 million	28%[23]
	Red 2	Dean Parisot	Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber	Red by Warren Ellis Cully Hamner	Summit Entertainment	$84 million	$148.1 million	42%
2014	Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit	Kenneth Branagh	Adam Cozad and David Koepp	Jack Ryan by Tom Clancy	Paramount Pictures	$60 million	$135.5 million	56%[24]
	Transformers: Age of Extinction	Michael Bay	Ehren Kruger	Transformers by Hasbro		$210 million	$1.104 billion	18%[25]
2016	Deepwater Horizon	Peter Berg	Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand	Deepwater Horizon's Final Hours by David Barstow, David Rohde and Stephanie Saul	Summit Entertainment	$156 million	$121.8 million	83%[26]
2017	Transformers: The Last Knight	Michael Bay	Art Marcum & Matt Holloway and Ken Nolan	Transformers by Hasbro	Paramount Pictures	$260 million	$605.4 million	16%
	Kidnap	Luis Prieto	Knate Lee	—	Relativity Media	$21 million	$30.7 million	38%
	American Assassin	Michael Cuesta	Stephen Schiff	American Assassin by Vince Flynn	Lionsgate	$33 million	$66.7 million	34%
	Only the Brave	Joseph Kosinski	Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer	—		$38 million	$23.1 million	87%
2018	The Meg	Jon Turteltaub	Dean Georgaris, Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber	Book of the same name by Steve Alten	Warner Bros. Pictures	$150 million	$527.8 million	45%
	Bumblebee	Travis Knight	Christina Hodson	Transformers by Hasbro	Paramount Pictures	$135 million	$462 million	93%
2019	Pet Sematary	Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer	Jeff Buhler and Matt Greenberg	Pet Sematary by Stephen King		$21 million	$113.1 million	57%[27]
2020	The Secrets We Keep	Yuval Adler	Ryan Covington		Bleecker Street	TBA	TBA	TBA
TBA	Kringle[28]	Mark Dindal	Mark Dindal Jason Richman	Book of the same name by Tony Abbott	Paramount Pictures	TBA	TBA	TBA

Television

• Zero Hour (2013)
• The Real O'Neals (2016–2017)
• Shooter (2016–2018)
• Jupiter's Legacy (2020)

References

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.
7. "Constantine". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixter. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
8. Four Brothers at Rotten Tomatoes
9. "Derailed".
10. "Shooter". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixter. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
11. "1408 – Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 1 November 2007. Retrieved 3 November 2007.
12. "Transformers". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
13. "Stardust". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved 17 March 2008.
14. "Imagine That Movie Reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment. 14 June 2009. Retrieved 19 June 2009.
15. "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
16. "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
17. "Red Movie Reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved October 21, 2010.
18. "Dark of the Moon (2011)". Rotten Tomatoes. June 28, 2011. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
19. "The Devil Inside". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 6, 2012.
20. "Man on a Ledge".
21. "The Last Stand (2013)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
22. "G.I. Joe: Retaliation". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
23. "G.I. Joe: Retaliation". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
24. "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2013)". Rotten Tomatoes (Flixster). Retrieved February 10, 2014.
25. "Transformers: Age of Extinction". Rotten Tomatoes/Flixster. Retrieved 2015-06-15.
26. "Deepwater Horizon (2016)". Rotten Tomatoes (Flixster). Retrieved January 29, 2017.
27. "Pet Semetary (2019)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
28. LaPorte, Nicole (February 27, 2007). "Paramount gets tough with Santa myth". Variety. Retrieved August 19, 2016.

External links

• Lorenzo di Bonaventura on IMDb