Life and career

He spent the 1990s as an executive at Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...

 Pictures, eventually rising to President of Worldwide Production. His production company di Bonaventura Pictures is based at Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

. His tenure at Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...

 included discovering and shepherding The Matrix

The Matrix

The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving...

into production, and the purchase of the rights to the Harry Potter

Harry Potter (film series)

The Harry Potter film series is a British-American film series based on the Harry Potter novels by the British author J. K. Rowling...

 books by J. K. Rowling

J. K. Rowling

Joanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE , better known as J. K. Rowling, is the British author of the Harry Potter fantasy series...

.

He has purchased the film rights to the six-part series of fantasy novels The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel will be a series of six fantasy novels written by Irish author Michael Scott when complete. Completion is due to be in 2012. The first book in the series, The Alchemyst was released in 2007, the sequels are scheduled to follow at the rate of one per year,...

 by Michael Scott

Michael Scott (Irish author)

Michael Scott is an Irish author.Michael Scott is a seasoned and prolific writer of over 100 books during his 25 plus years of writing thus far...

. di Bonaventura said that Scott's fantastic series is a natural evolution from "Harry Potter". He will produce both remakes of It

It (film)

It is the name of several films:*It , starring Clara Bow*It! , a horror film starring Roddy McDowell*It , a horror television miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King...

 and Pet Semetary. He will produce an action comedy loosely based on The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

Personal life

His father, Mario di Bonaventura, who was a symphony conductor, sent him to Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

. He later received an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

Filmography following CEO tenure

• Derailed
  Derailed
  Derailed is a 2005 British-American thriller film based on the novel of the same name by James Siegel. The film is directed by Mikael Håfström and stars Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel, Melissa George, Addison Timlin, Giancarlo Esposito, RZA and Xzibit. This film was the first to be...
  
  (2005)
• Doom
  Doom (film)
  Doom is a 2005 science fiction horror film, loosely based on the Doom series of video games created by id Software. It was directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak....
  
  (2005)
• Four Brothers
  Four Brothers (film)
  Four Brothers is a 2005 action crime film directed by John Singleton. The movie stars Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, Andre Benjamin and Garrett Hedlund. The film was shot in Detroit, Michigan and Hamilton, Ontario, Canada...
  
  (2005)
• Constantine
  Constantine (film)
  Constantine is a 2005 American action horror film directed by Francis Lawrence as his directorial debut, starring Keanu Reeves as John Constantine, with Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Tilda Swinton, and Djimon Hounsou...
  
  (2005)
• Stardust (2007)
• Transformers (2007)
• 1408
  1408 (film)
  1408 is a 2007 American psychological horror film based on the Stephen King short story of the same name directed by Swedish director Mikael Håfström, who earlier had directed the horror film Drowning Ghost. The cast includes John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, and Mary McCormack. The film was released...
  
  (2007)
• Shooter (2007)
• Imagine That (2009)
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
  Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
  Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a 2009 American science fiction-action film directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg. It is the sequel to the 2007 film Transformers and the second installment in the live-action Transformers series...
  
  (2009)
• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
• Salt (2010)
• Red
  Red (2010 film)
  RED is a 2010 American action comedy film loosely inspired by the three-issue comic book series of the same name created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, and published by the DC Comics imprint Homage...
  
  (2010)
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
• The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (2012)
• The Last Stand
  The Last Stand (2013 film)
  The Last Stand is an upcoming 2013 American action film directed by Kim Ji-woon and Arnold Schwarzenegger's first starring role since 2003. This is the first American production for Kim Ji-woon and cinematographer Kim Ji-yong.-Cast:...
  
  (2013)

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