Lorenzo di Bonaventura

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Lorenzo di Bonaventura (2010)

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

Life

Lorenzo di Bonaventura is the son of the orchestra conductor Mario di Bonaventura. He studied at Harvard University and later at the Pennsylvania Wharton School , where he graduated.

Career

He began his professional career as a producer in 1989 with the US film company Warner Bros. Only a few years later he became chief production manager, and in 1998 he was Executive Vice-President of Worldwide Motion Pictures, responsible for global production contracts including marketing. Di Bonaventura was therefore jointly responsible for the realization of the first Harry Potter films and the Matrix trilogy, as well as for the successful productions Ocean's Eleven and Training Day . When Warner Bros. had a poor sales season in 2002, di Bonaventura ended the internal differences with his exit and decided to work as a freelance producer by founding his own production company.

His production company Di Bonaventura Pictures is based at Paramount Pictures and was successful in 2005 with the first production of the mystery thriller Constantine , in which Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz played the leading roles. Shortly afterwards he achieved an international box-office hit with the real-life adaptation of the Transformers film series, with the third part, Transformers 3, being one of the ten most successful films to date . He has also produced other star-studded action films, including Shooter (2007) with Mark Wahlberg , the comic book adaptations GI Joe - Secret Order Cobra (2009) and RED (2010) with Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman , the spy thriller Salt (2010) with Angelina Jolie and the Thriller A Risky Plan (2012) starring Sam Worthington and Elizabeth Banks .

Di Bonaventura and his production partner Mark Vahradian are currently planning, together with Prodigy Pictures , which was founded by Jay Firestone in 2006, an adaptation of the award-winning dystopian science fiction novel Neuromancer from 1984 by William Gibson , which was already used as a template for the Matrix trilogy served. Vincenzo Natali is to act as screenwriter and director . Other current projects are mainly sequels such as RED 2 , GI Joe - Die Abrechnung , Transformers: Ära des Fall and Salt 2 , as well as The Last Stand with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects - Fatal side effects with Jude Law and Channing Tatum .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lorenzo di Bonaventura Quits. lukeford.net, April 9, 2002, accessed July 9, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Profile: Lorenzo di Bonaventura. kino.de, accessed on July 9, 2012 .
  3. ^ Neuromancer: Lorenzo di Bonaventura takes over the production. moviegod.de, May 1, 2012, accessed on July 9, 2012 .
  4. ↑ a b David Rams: Interview with Lorenzo di Bonaventura. movienerd.de, accessed on July 9, 2012 .
  5. ^ Seven Arts and Prodigy Pictures Announce Lorenzo di Bonaventura to Join Production Team of "Neuromancer". (No longer available online.) Marketwatch.com, March 30, 2011, archived from the original on June 30, 2012 ; accessed on July 9, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.marketwatch.com
personal data
SURNAME Di Bonaventura, Lorenzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1957