Lorenzo di Bonaventura

Lorenzo di Bonaventura
di Bonaventura at the 2010 Comic Con in San Diego
Born	1957 (age 58–59)
Occupation	Film producer

Lorenzo di Bonaventura (born 1957) is an American film producer and founder of his company Di Bonaventura Pictures. He is best known for producing Transformers films.

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.^[1] 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.

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.	$100 million	$230.9 million	46%>[2]
	Four Brothers	John Singleton	David Elliot and Paul Lovett	The Sons of Katie Elder  by Henry Hathaway	Paramount Pictures	$45 million	$92 million	52%[3]
	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%[4]
2007	Shooter	Antoine Fuqua	Jonathan Lemkin	Point of Impact  by Stephen Hunter	Paramount Pictures	$61 million	$95.7 million	48%[5]
	1408	Mikael Håfström	Matt Greenberg, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski	1408  by Stephen King	Dimension Films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$25 million	$132 million	78%[6]
	Transformers	Michael Bay	Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci	Transformers  by Hasbro	DreamWorks Pictures Paramount Pictures	$150 million	$709.7 million	57%[7]
	Stardust	Matthew Vaughn	Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman	Stardust  by Neil Gaiman	Paramount Pictures	$88.5 million	$135.6 million	76%[8]
2009	Imagine That	Karey Kirkpatrick	Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson	—	Paramount Pictures Nickelodeon Movies	$55 million	$22 million	40%[9]
	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%[10]
	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%[lower-alpha 1]
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%[12]
2011	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Michael Bay	Ehren Kruger	Transformers  by Hasbro	Paramount Pictures	$195 million	$1.124 billion	35%[13]
2012	The Devil Inside	William Brent Bell	William Brent Bell and Matthew Peterman	—		$1 million	$101.8 million	6%[14]
	Man on a Ledge	Asger Leth	Pablo Fenjves	—	Summit Entertainment	$42 million	$46.2 million	31%[15]
2013	The Last Stand	Kim Jee-woon	Andrew Knauer	—	Lionsgate	$45 million	$48 million	60%[16]
	Side Effects	Steven Soderbergh	Scott Z. Burns	—	Open Road Films	$30 million	$60 million	83%[17]
	G.I. Joe: Retaliation	Jon M. Chu	Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick	G.I. Joe  by Hasbro	Paramount Pictures	$30 million	$60 million	83%[17]
	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%[18]
	Transformers: Age of Extinction	Michael Bay	Ehren Kruger	Transformers  by Hasbro		$210 million	$1.104 billion	18%[19]
2016	Kidnap	Luis Prieto	Knate Gwaltney	—	Relativity Media
2017	Transformers 5		Art Marcum & Matt Holloway and Ken Nolan	Transformers  by Hasbro	Paramount Pictures

Television

• The Real O'Neals

Notes

1. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 35% approval rating with an average rating of 4.6/10 based on 159 reviews. The website's consensus reads, "While fans of the Hasbro toy franchise may revel in a bit of nostalgia, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is largely a cartoonish, over-the-top action fest propelled by silly writing, inconsistent visual effects, and merely passable performances.^[11]

References

1. Interview with Lorenzo di Bonaventura at Transformers At The Moon
2. "Constantine". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixter. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
3. Four Brothers at Rotten Tomatoes
4. Rotten Tomatoes
5. "Shooter". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixter. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
6. "1408 – Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 1 November 2007. Retrieved 3 November 2007.
7. "Transformers". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
8. "Stardust". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved 17 March 2008.
9. "Imagine That Movie Reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment. 14 June 2009. Retrieved 19 June 2009.
10. "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
11. "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
12. "Red Movie Reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved October 21, 2010.
13. "Dark of the Moon (2011)". Rotten Tomatoes. June 28, 2011. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
14. "The Devil Inside". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 6, 2012.
15. Man on a Ledge – Rotten Tomatoes
16. "The Last Stand (2013)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
17. "Side Effects". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved June 1, 2013.
18. "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2013)". Rotten Tomatoes (Flixster). Retrieved February 10, 2014.
19. "Transformers: Age of Extinction". Rotten Tomatoes/Flixster. Retrieved 2015-06-15.

External links

• Lorenzo di Bonaventura at the Internet Movie Database