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]
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Born | New York City, New York, U.S. | January 13, 1957
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 |
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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
- "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.
- "Constantine". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixter. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
- Four Brothers at Rotten Tomatoes
- "Derailed".
- "Shooter". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixter. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
- "1408 – Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 1 November 2007. Retrieved 3 November 2007.
- "Transformers". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- "Stardust". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved 17 March 2008.
- "Imagine That Movie Reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment. 14 June 2009. Retrieved 19 June 2009.
- "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
- "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
- "Red Movie Reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved October 21, 2010.
- "Dark of the Moon (2011)". Rotten Tomatoes. June 28, 2011. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
- "The Devil Inside". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 6, 2012.
- "Man on a Ledge".
- "The Last Stand (2013)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
- "G.I. Joe: Retaliation". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
- "G.I. Joe: Retaliation". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
- "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2013)". Rotten Tomatoes (Flixster). Retrieved February 10, 2014.
- "Transformers: Age of Extinction". Rotten Tomatoes/Flixster. Retrieved 2015-06-15.
- "Deepwater Horizon (2016)". Rotten Tomatoes (Flixster). Retrieved January 29, 2017.
- "Pet Semetary (2019)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
- LaPorte, Nicole (February 27, 2007). "Paramount gets tough with Santa myth". Variety. Retrieved August 19, 2016.