Dave Caplan

Dave Caplan (also credited as David Caplan) is a film and television producer and the Chairman and CEO of C2 Motion Picture Group. He oversees the company’s slate end-to-end—guiding development, packaging, financing, production, and worldwide sales—with a focus on ambitious independent features built for global audiences.

Under Caplan’s leadership, C2 has delivered major indie successes, including the breakout horror phenomenon Longlegs, which crossed the $100 million mark at the box office and ranked among the most successful independent horror releases in well over a decade. His recent producing credits also include Azrael (starring Samara Weaving), Goodrich (with Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis), Guy Ritchie’s In The Grey (starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Henry Cavill), and The Monkey, directed by Oz Perkins and starring Theo James.

Caplan has also helped bridge the indie and studio worlds through a $100 million multi-picture co-financing partnership with Paramount, backing titles such as Babylon, Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. As an executive producer, his work includes The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, 65, and The End We Start From.

Before launching C2, Caplan spent 16 years in television as a producer and showrunner and later served as CEO and executive producer of Trooper Entertainment, scaling it into a full-service international production company. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz.