Biography: Life and career

He 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, but their own logo was not shown until 2013's The Last Stand. 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. Di Bonaventura said that Scott's "fantastic series is a natural evolution from 'Harry Potter'."

He went to Harvard University.[citation needed] He later received an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.[citation needed] His father, Mario di Bonaventura, was a symphony conductor.

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