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Biography
Lorenzo di Bonaventura (born 1957) is an American film producer and founder of his company Di Bonaventura Pictures. He is best known for producing the Transformers film series.
Life and career
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.
Bonaventura has purchased the film rights to the six-part series of fantasy novels The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott. Di Bonaventura said that Scott's "fantastic series is a natural evolution from 'Harry Potter'."
Personal life
Bonaventura attended Harvard University. He later received an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. His father, Mario di Bonaventura, was a symphony conductor.
Bonaventura serves as chair of the Creative Council for Represent.Us, a nonpartisan anti-corruption organization.
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%> |
| Four Brothers | John Singleton | David Elliot and Paul Lovett | The Sons of Katie Elder by Henry Hathaway | Paramount Pictures | $45 million | $92 million | 52% | |
| Doom | Andrzej Bartkowiak | David Callaham and Wesley Strick | Doom 1993 game by id Software | Universal Studios | $60 million | $55 million | 19% | |
| Derailed | Mikael Håfström | Stuart Beattie | Derailed by James Siegel | The Weinstein Company Buena Vista International | $22 million | $57 million | 20% | |
| 2007 | Shooter | Antoine Fuqua | Jonathan Lemkin | Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter | Paramount Pictures | $61 million | $95.7 million | 48% |
| 1408 | Mikael Håfström | Matt Greenberg, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski | 1408 by Stephen King | Dimension Films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | $25 million | $132 million | 78% | |
| Transformers | Michael Bay | Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci | Transformers by Hasbro | DreamWorks Pictures Paramount Pictures | $150 million | $709.7 million | 57% | |
| Stardust | Matthew Vaughn | Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman | Stardust by Neil Gaiman | Paramount Pictures | $88.5 million | $135.6 million | 76% | |
| 2009 | Imagine That | Karey Kirkpatrick | Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson | — | Paramount Pictures Nickelodeon Movies | $55 million | $22 million | 40% |
| 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% | |
| 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% | |
| 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% | |
| 2011 | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Michael Bay | Ehren Kruger | Transformers by Hasbro | Paramount Pictures | $195 million | $1.124 billion | 35% |
| 2012 | The Devil Inside | William Brent Bell | William Brent Bell and Matthew Peterman | — | $1 million | $101.8 million | 6% | |
| Man on a Ledge | Asger Leth | Pablo Fenjves | — | Summit Entertainment | $42 million | $46.2 million | 31% | |
| 2013 | The Last Stand | Kim Jee-woon | Andrew Knauer | — | Lionsgate | $45 million | $48 million | 60% |
| 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 | $30 million | $122 million | 28% | |
| 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% |
| Transformers: Age of Extinction | Michael Bay | Ehren Kruger | Transformers by Hasbro | $210 million | $1.104 billion | 18% | ||
| 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 | $108.8 million | 83% |
| 2017 | Kidnap | Luis Prieto | Knate Gwaltney | — | Relativity Media | |||
| Transformers: The Last Knight | Michael Bay | Art Marcum & Matt Holloway and Ken Nolan | Transformers by Hasbro | Paramount Pictures | $260 milion | |||
| Granite Mountain | Joseph Kosinski | Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer | — | Lionsgate | ||||
| 2018 | Meg | Jon Turteltaub | Dean Georgaris, Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber | Book of the same name by Steve Alten | Warner Bros. Pictures | $150 milion | ||
| TBA | American Assassin | Michael Cuesta | Stephen Schiff | American Assassin by Vince Flynn | Lionsgate | |||
| TBA | Kringle | Mark Dindal | Mark Dindal Jason Richman | Book of the same name by Tony Abbott | Paramount Pictures |
Television
- The Real O'Neals (2016-present)
- Shooter (2016-present)