| Lorenzo di Bonaventura | |
| Birth Date: | 1957 1, mf=yes |
| Birth Place: | New York City, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | Harvard University University of Pennsylvania |
| Occupation: | Film producer |
| Children: | 2 |
Lorenzo di Bonaventura (pronounced as /it/; born January 13, 1957) is an American film producer and the founder and owner of Di Bonaventura Pictures. He is best known for producing the G.I. Joe and Transformers film series. The films he produced have earned over $7 billion at the box office.[1]
Di Bonaventura spent the 1990s as an executive in the film industry eventually rising to president of worldwide production for Warner Bros. Pictures. His production company, Di Bonaventura Pictures, is based at Paramount Pictures. His tenure at Warner Bros. included discovering and shepherding The Matrix into production, as well as purchasing the rights to the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling.
In 2007, di Bonaventura 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, di Bonaventura criticized the ubiquitousness of inexpensive digital cameras that allow anyone to become a filmmaker, potentially saturating the media landscape with awful entertainment that the public wouldn't be able to distinguish from quality works. His argument stated that the new media landscape is flawed due to lack of a "tastemaker".
Di Bonaventura graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall and Harvard University, where he played soccer.[3] He later received an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[4] His father, Mario di Bonaventura, was a symphony conductor, and his uncle, Anthony di Bonaventura, was a concert pianist.[5]
Di Bonaventura serves as chair of the Creative Council for RepresentUs, a nonpartisan anti-corruption organization.[6] He has served on the Claremont Graduate University Board of Trustees since 2015.[7]
, di Bonaventura lived in Brentwood, Los Angeles with his wife Kimberly and their two sons.[8]
| 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 | |
| Michael Bay | With DreamWorks Pictures | ||
| Stephen Sommers | |||
| 2011 | Michael Bay | ||
| 2013 | Jon M. Chu | With Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |
| 2014 | Kenneth Branagh | ||
| Michael Bay | |||
| 2017 | |||
| 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 | Steven Caple Jr. | ||
| Lindsey Beer | Via Paramount+ and Paramount Players | ||
| 2024 | Transformers One | Josh Cooley | |
| TBA | Untitled Transformers film | Ángel Manuel Soto | |
| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Salt | Phillip Noyce |
| 2024 | Madame Web | S. J. Clarkson |
| 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 |
| 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 | |||
| 2023 | Plane | Jean-François Richet |
| Year | Title | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Constantine | Francis Lawrence | |
| 2018 | The Meg | Jon Turteltaub | |
| 2023 | Ben Wheatley | ||
| TBA | Untitled Constantine Sequel | Francis Lawrence |
| Year | Title | Director | Distributor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Doom | Andrzej Bartkowiak | Universal Pictures |
| Derailed | Miramax | ||
| 2007 | 1408 | Dimension Films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |
| 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 |
| Year | Title | Director | Distributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | The Devil Inside | William Brent Bell | Insurge Pictures |
| 2015 | Zach Lipovsky | Crackle | |
| 2016 | (Uncredited) | Pat Williams | |
| 2018 | Wes Ball | 20th Century Fox | |
| Sonny Laguna Tommy Wiklund | RLJE Films | ||
| El Chicano | Ben Hernandez Bray | Briarcliff Entertainment | |
| 2019 | Tony Giglio | Universal 1440 Entertainment | |
| 2024 | Mark Molloy | Netflix | |