Lorenzo di Bonaventura

American film producer

Lorenzo di Bonaventura (; 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 produced have earned over $7 billion at the box office.

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. 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. He later received an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His father, Mario di Bonaventura, was a symphony conductor, and his uncle, Anthony di Bonaventura, was a concert pianist. Di Bonaventura serves as chair of the Creative Council for Represent. Us, a nonpartisan anti corruption organization. He has served on the Claremont Graduate University Board of Trustees since 2015.

Year Title Director Notes 2005 Four Brothers John Singleton2007 Shooter Antoine Fuqua Transformers Michael Bay With DreamWorks Pictures Stardust Matthew Vaughn2009 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 2013 G. I. Joe: Retaliation Jon M. Chu With Metro Goldwyn Mayer2014 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 KölschDennis Widmyer2021 Infinite Antoine Fuqua Via Paramount+ Snake Eyes Robert Schwentke With Metro Goldwyn Mayer 2023 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Steven Caple Jr. Pet Sematary: Bloodlines Lindsey Beer Via Paramount+ and Paramount Players 2024 Transformers One Josh Cooley TBA Untitled Transformers film Ángel Manuel Soto

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