Lorenzo di Bonaventura

Lorenzo di Bonaventura (; 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 would not 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.

, di Bonaventura lived in Brentwood, Los Angeles with his wife and children.

Filmography Producer Paramount Pictures 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

Sony Pictures Releasing Year Title Director 2010 Salt Phillip Noyce2024Madame WebS. J. Clarkson

Summit Entertainment 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

Lionsgate Films 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 2023PlaneJean-François Richet

Warner Bros. Pictures Year Title Director 2005 Constantine Francis Lawrence 2018 The Meg Jon Turteltaub 2023 Meg 2: The Trench Ben Wheatley

Others Year Title Director Distributor(s)2005 Doom Andrzej Bartkowiak Universal Pictures Derailed Mikael Håfström Miramax 2007 1408 Dimension FilmsMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer 2013 Side Effects Steven Soderbergh Open Road Films 2015 Electric Slide (Uncredited) Tristan Patterson Paragon Releasing 2017 Kidnap Luis Prieto Relativity MediaAviron 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 Subversion Patrick Vollrath Amazon MGM Studios

Executive producer Year Title Director Distributor 2012 The Devil Inside William Brent Bell Insurge Pictures 2015 Dead Rising: Watchtower Zach Lipovsky Crackle 2016 Dead Rising: Endgame (Uncredited) Pat Williams2018 Maze Runner: The Death Cure Wes Ball 20th Century Fox Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich Sonny LagunaTommy Wiklund RLJE Films El Chicano Ben Hernandez Bray Briarcliff Entertainment 2019 Doom: Annihilation Tony Giglio Universal 1440 Entertainment 2024 Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F Mark Molloy Netflix

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