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Lorenzo di Bonaventura
di Bonaventura at Comic-Con in 2024
Born	(1957-01-13) January 13, 1957 (age 67) New York City, U.S.
Alma mater	Harvard University University of Pennsylvania
Occupation	Film producer
Children	2

Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Italian pronunciation: [loˈrɛntso di ˌbɔnavenˈtuːra]; 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.

Life and career

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".

Personal life

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 RepresentUs, a nonpartisan anti-corruption organization. He has served on the Claremont Graduate University Board of Trustees since 2015.

As of July 2013, di Bonaventura lived in Brentwood, Los Angeles with his wife Kimberly and their two sons.

Filmography

Producer

Paramount Pictures

Sony Pictures Releasing

Summit Entertainment

Lionsgate Films

Warner Bros. Pictures

Others

Executive producer

Television

• Zero Hour (2013)
• The Real O'Neals (2016–2017)
• Shooter (2016–2018)
• Jupiter's Legacy (2021)
• The New Look (2024–present)

See also

• Wilhelm Imkamp
• Yves Leterme
• Yves Saint Laurent
• Martina Stella
• Stanley Tucci
• Caroline Vreeland

References

1. "Lorenzo di Bonaventura to Receive Career Achievement Award". Zurich Film Festival. August 23, 2016. Archived from the original on September 9, 2019. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
2. "Lorenzo di Bonaventura – June 2007 – Transformers At The Moon".
3. "Men's Soccer Gears Up for a Title Chase... | Sports | The Harvard Crimson". The Harvard Crimson. Archived from the original on December 15, 2022. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
4. Weinstein, Joshua L. (October 11, 2010). "Di Bonaventura on a bonny venture". Variety. Archived from the original on August 26, 2020. Retrieved January 29, 2018.
5. "Mario di Bonaventura (Composer) – Short Biography". Bach Cantatas Website. Archived from the original on February 28, 2019. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
6. "About | Represent.Us". Represent.Us. Archived from the original on October 23, 2016. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
7. "Lorenzo di Bonaventura". Claremont Graduate University. Archived from the original on November 24, 2020. Retrieved July 8, 2018.
8. Kilday, Gregg (July 19, 2013). "Lorenzo di Bonaventura on 10 Years of Producing Movies (Q&A)". The Hollywood Reporter. Prometheus Global Media. Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved September 12, 2024.
9. Andreeva, Nellie (February 10, 2022). "Christian Dior-Coco Chanel Drama Series Starring Ben Mendelsohn & Juliette Binoche Ordered By Apple TV+". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on October 22, 2022. Retrieved April 21, 2022.

External links

• Lorenzo di Bonaventura at IMDb 

• 1957 births
• American people of Italian descent
• Film producers from New York City
• Filmmakers from New York (state)
• Harvard University alumni
• Living people
• Wharton School alumni
• Writers from New York City