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

Television

• The Real O'Neals (2016-present)

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