EXCLUSIVE: Producer Daniela Taplin Lundberg‘s Keep Gold Options (Goodrich, Harriet) has secured a brand new spherical of funding from undisclosed non-public buyers — $10 million that can go towards the in-house growth and manufacturing of movie and TV initiatives.
This comes on the heels of Keep Gold’s second spherical funding, one other $10M, on which we had been first to report in February 2020. Primarily based in New York, Taplin Lundberg launched the corporate in 2016 with funding from a dozen non-public buyers. She’ll handle Keep Gold Movie Fund III alongside L.A.-based head of growth Vanessa Mendal, with whom she oversees everything of Keep Gold’s slate.
Among the many upcoming initiatives on Keep Gold’s slate is a function adaptation of the esteemed graphic novel Tumor, written and to be directed by Will Bridges (Black Mirror, Stranger Issues), who offered his first movie All of You to Apple in late 2024. There’s additionally an adaptation of Curtis Sittenfeld’s White Home romance bestseller American Spouse.
Stated Taplin Lundberg of the third fund, “My companions and I proceed to be enthusiastic about creating alternative for visionary filmmakers and carving out an area for thought scary, entertaining and elevated theatrical movies. We are going to proceed to battle for these motion pictures.”
In its first 9 years, Keep Gold Options has produced 10 options. Latest releases embrace Hallie Meyers-Shyer’s acclaimed household dramedy Goodrich, starring Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis; the 2022 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Nanny, written and directed by Nikyatu Jusu; Nikole Beckwith’s Collectively Collectively; and Focus Options’ Harriet, co-produced with Debra Martin Chase and starring Cynthia Erivo, who earned two Oscar nominations for the movie. Different previous titles embrace Amazon’s Honey Boy, written by and starring Shia LaBeouf, Sundance breakout Patti Cake$, A Ciambra, and Below the Silver Lake.
Repped by UTA, Keep Gold additionally produces the podcast Hollywood Gold, hosted by Taplin Lundberg, which explores the untold tales behind the making of iconic movies. The present dives into the making of titles corresponding to The Vacation with filmmaker Nancy Meyers, Everlasting Sunshine of the Spotless Thoughts with producer Anthony Bregman, A Stunning Thoughts with author Akiva Goldsman, Anora with Academy Award-winning producer Alex Coco, and extra.
Previous to launching Keep Gold, Taplin Lundberg was a co-founding accomplice of Pink Crown Productions, the banner she established with Daniel Crown and Riva Marker. Pink Crown produced movies together with Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation, Michael Showalter’s Whats up My Identify is Doris, and What Maisie Knew, starring Julianne Moore and Alexander Skarsgård. Earlier than that, she was a accomplice at Plum Photos, the place she produced movies together with The Youngsters Are All Proper and Grace Is Gone.
