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Lorenzo di Bonaventura (born 1957) is an American film producer. His production company di Bonaventura Pictures is based at Paramount Pictures.

He spent the 1990s as an executive at Warner Bros. Pictures, eventually rising to President of Worldwide Production. 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. He said that Scott's fantastic series is a natural evolution from "Harry Potter".

His father, 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)

External links

• Lorenzo di Bonaventura at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Lorenzo di Bonaventura at Transformers At The Moon