Biography
Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Italian pronunciation: [loˈrɛntso di bonavenˈtuːra, - ˌbɔ-]; 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".
