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Lorenzo di Bonaventura

Highest Rated: 91% Bumblebee (2018)

Lowest Rated: 6% The Devil Inside (2012)

Birthday: Jan 13, 1957

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura parlayed his lengthy, successful career as a production head at Warner Bros. into an even more lucrative run as producer on such films as "Transformers" (2007), "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" (2009), "RED" (2010), as well as various sequels and additional franchises. Born in New York in 1957, di Bonaventura was raised in New Hampshire and attended Harvard University before earning his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He worked on Wall Street before launching his film career in 1986 with Columbia Pictures, where he worked in distribution and marketing before moving to Warner Bros. in 1989. There, he began a wildly successful 13-year stint as an executive, overseeing such blockbuster properties as "The Matrix" franchise (1999-2003), "Ocean's Eleven" (2001), and the first three titles in the "Harry Potter" franchise (2001-2011) as president of worldwide production. In 2002, di Bonaventura was phased out of Warners as part of a executive realignment, which prompted him to launch his own production shingle, di Bonaventura Productions, which set up shop at Paramount Pictures. The company debuted with a property he had brought from Warners: "Constantine" (2005), an adaptation of the popular graphic novel series, with Keanu Reeves as its star. Though a modest hit, the supernatural action film would serve as a template for di Bonaventura's subsequent productions: splashy, big-budget action-dramas with top-name talent that included recurring appearances by Reeves and Mark Wahlberg, who was top-lined in "Four Brothers" (2005), "Shooter" and "Transformers: Age of Extinction" (2014). The company did not earn its first breakout hit until 2007, when he adapted the wildly popular line of Transformers robot toys into a feature film. A major hit, it led to further tentpole action titles, including a second collaboration with the Transformers' creators, Hasbro, on "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" (2009), and three additional "Transformers" features with director Michael Bay. Di Bonaventura moved successfully from action features like "Salt" (2010) and the popular Bruce Willis vehicle "Red" (2010) to smaller productions like "The Devil Inside" (2012), a "found footage" horror film about an alleged exorcism that performed exceptionally well at the box office. Di Bonaventura also found time to produce more arthouse-minded efforts like "Side Effects" (2013) for "Ocean's Eleven" director Steven Soderbergh, and relaunched both the film career of Arnold Schwarzenegger with "The Last Stand" (2013) and the Jack Ryan franchise, based on the character created by Tom Clancy, with "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" (2014). That same year, he rebooted the "Transformers" franchise with "Transformers: Age of Extinction" (2014) which became the highest-grossing film of 2014. Its success gave di Bonaventura exceptional leverage to oversee a slew of projects, including new "Transformers," "Salt" and "Red" entries, as well as a feature and television series based on the popular "Dead Rising" (Capcom, 2006- ) video game franchise.

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Highest-Rated Movies

91% 75% Bumblebee
Watchlist
89% 97% Transformers One Watchlist 87% 91% Only the Brave Watchlist 83% 70% Side Effects Watchlist 82% 82% Deepwater Horizon Watchlist
79% 61% 1408
Watchlist
79% 94% Plane Watchlist 77% 86% Stardust Watchlist 72% 72% Red Watchlist 62% 42% The Secrets We Keep Watchlist

Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Transformers One 89% 97% 2024 Producer Madame Web 11% 53% 2024 Producer Pet Sematary: Bloodlines 24% 38% 2023 Producer Meg 2: The Trench 27% 72% 2023 Producer Transformers: Rise of the Beasts 51% 91% 2023 Producer Plane 79% 94% 2023 Producer Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins 35% 74% 2021 Producer Infinite 17% 34% 2021 Producer The Secrets We Keep 62% 42% 2020 Producer Doom: Annihilation 43% 15% 2019 Executive Producer Pet Sematary 57% 33% 2019 Producer El Chicano 40% 55% 2018 Producer, Executive Producer Replicas 9% 33% 2018 Producer Bumblebee 91% 75% 2018 Producer The Meg 47% 44% 2018 Producer Higher Power 45% 2018 Producer Maze Runner: The Death Cure 43% 58% 2018 Executive Producer Only the Brave 87% 91% 2017 Producer American Assassin 34% 61% 2017 Producer Unlocked 26% 45% 2017 Producer Kidnap 35% 50% 2017 Producer Transformers: The Last Knight 16% 43% 2017 Producer Deepwater Horizon 82% 82% 2016 Producer Dead Rising: Watchtower 32% 2015 Executive Producer Transformers: Age of Extinction 18% 50% 2014 Producer
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