EXCLUSIVE: Producer Daniela Taplin Lundberg‘s Stay Gold Features (Goodrich, Harriet) has secured a new round of funding from undisclosed private investors — $10 million that will go toward the in-house development and production of film and TV projects.
This comes on the heels of Stay Gold’s second round funding, another $10M, on which we were first to report in February 2020. Based in New York, Taplin Lundberg launched the company in 2016 with funding from a dozen private investors. She’ll manage Stay Gold Film Fund III alongside L.A.-based head of development Vanessa Mendal, with whom she oversees the entirety of Stay Gold’s slate.
Among the upcoming projects on Stay Gold’s slate is a feature adaptation of the esteemed graphic novel Tumor, written and to be directed by Will Bridges (Black Mirror, Stranger Things), who sold his first film All of You to Apple in late 2024. There’s also an adaptation of Curtis Sittenfeld’s White House romance bestseller American Wife.
Said Taplin Lundberg of the third fund, “My partners and I continue to be excited about creating opportunity for visionary filmmakers and carving out a space for thought provoking, entertaining and elevated theatrical films. We will continue to fight for these movies.”
In its first nine years, Stay Gold Features has produced 10 features. Recent releases include Hallie Meyers-Shyer’s acclaimed family dramedy Goodrich, starring Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis; the 2022 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Nanny, written and directed by Nikyatu Jusu; Nikole Beckwith’s Together Together; and Focus Features’ Harriet, co-produced with Debra Martin Chase and starring Cynthia Erivo, who earned two Oscar nominations for the film. Other past titles include Amazon’s Honey Boy, written by and starring Shia LaBeouf, Sundance breakout Patti Cake$, A Ciambra, and Under the Silver Lake.
Repped by UTA, Stay Gold also produces the podcast Hollywood Gold, hosted by Taplin Lundberg, which explores the untold stories behind the making of iconic films. The show dives into the making of titles such as The Holiday with filmmaker Nancy Meyers, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with producer Anthony Bregman, A Beautiful Mind with writer Akiva Goldsman, Anora with Academy Award-winning producer Alex Coco, and more.
Prior to launching Stay Gold, Taplin Lundberg was a co-founding partner of Red Crown Productions, the banner she established with Daniel Crown and Riva Marker. Red Crown produced films including Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation, Michael Showalter’s Hello My Name is Doris, and What Maisie Knew, starring Julianne Moore and Alexander Skarsgård. Before that, she was a partner at Plum Pictures, where she produced films including The Kids Are All Right and Grace Is Gone.
