Lorenzo di Bonaventura

Lorenzo di Bonaventura
di Bonaventura at the 2010 Comic Con in San Diego
Born	c. 1957
Occupation	Film producer

Lorenzo di Bonaventura (born 1957) is an American film producer.

Life and career

He 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.

He 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". He will produce both remakes of It and Pet Semetary.^[2] He will produce an action comedy loosely based on The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.^[3]

Personal life

His father, Mario di Bonaventura, who was a symphony conductor, sent him to Harvard University. He later received an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

Filmography following CEO tenure

• Derailed (2005)
• Doom (2005)
• Four Brothers (2005)
• Constantine (2005)
• Stardust (2007)
• Transformers (2007)
• 1408 (2007)
• Shooter (2007)
• Imagine That (2009)
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
• Salt (2010)
• Red (2010)
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
• The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (2012)^[4]

References

1. ^ Interview with Lorenzo di Bonaventura at Transformers At The Moon
2. ^ "Updates on 'IT' and 'Pet Sematary' Remakes". http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/20766. 
3. ^ "The Hunchback Seeking Sanctuary at Paramount". http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/38478/the-hunchback-seeking-sanctuary-paramount. 
4. ^ "The Immortal Nicholas Flamel". Randomhouse.com. http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/alchemyst/. Retrieved 2011-03-08. 

External links

• Lorenzo di Bonaventura at the Internet Movie Database

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