Tucker Tooley Entertainment and eOne will co-finance and produce the film.


Gary Oldman, whose performance as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour is already generating Oscar heat, will star in Mary, a supernatural thriller from Tucker Tooley Entertainment and Entertainment One.

Michael Goi, perhaps best known for his work as cinematographer and director for American Horror Story and Salem, will direct the feature.

Mary centers on a struggling family that buys an old ship at auction with the high hopes of starting a charter business, only to discover the ship’s horrifying secrets on the isolated open waters. Anthony Jaswinski, who penned the hit woman-versus-shark thriller The Shallows, wrote the script.

Tucker Tooley Entertainment and eOne will co-finance and produce Mary, which is scheduled to begin production in Alabama in late September.

Tucker Tooley, Scott Lambert and Alexandra Milchan as well as Scott Lumpkin are producing. Greg Renker and Jason Barhydt will executive produce. Douglas Urbanski, Oldman’s longtime producing partner, will also exec produce.

Mary will be Tooley’s second film after Now I See You to be made under his first-look co-financing and international distribution deal with eOne. As part of that look, eOne controls distribution rights to Tooley Entertainment’s projects in the U.K., Canada, Australia/New Zealand, Benelux and Spain.

Sierra / Affinity will handle international sales on the title, outside of eOne directly distributed territories and SquareOne will handle foreign sales in Germany.

Tooley’s next movie is Den of Thieves, the thriller starring Gerard Butler and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson that is set to be released Jan. 19, 2018.

Oldman’s Darkest Hour, directed by Joe Wright, was unveiled at Telluride on Sept. 1 and will also screen at TIFF on Sept. 10. The movie received instant acclaim and thrust the actor into the Oscar race. It opens wide Nov. 22.

Oldman scored his first Academy Award nomination for the 2011 adaptation of John Le Carre’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Some of his recent credits include Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, the Harry Potter series and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

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