Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
He is best known for producing Transformers films. Bonaventura spent the 1990s as an executive at Warner Brothers Pictures, eventually rising to president of worldwide production.
His production company Di Bonaventura Pictures is based at Paramount Pictures.
His tenure at Warner Brothers 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 Master of Business Administration from the University of Pennsylvania"s Wharton School.
His father, Mario di Bonaventura, was a symphony conductor.