Cannes Briefs: Zac Efron Takes ‘Autobahn’; ‘Vatican Tapes’ Records Sales

Cannes Briefs: Zac Efron Takes ‘Autobahn’; ‘Vatican Tapes’ Records Sales:
Zac Efron and Amber Heard have signed to star in Autobahn from Welcome To The Punch director Eran Creevy. IM Global will finance the car chase thriller that starts shooting in Germany this fall. It’s about an American backpacker who becomes involved with a ring of drug smugglers as a pick-up driver and ends up being pursued by his employers across Munich’s high-speed freeways. Creevy’s Punch producers Ben Pugh and Rory Aitken and Automatik’s Brian Kavanaugh-Jones are producing. F. Scott Frazier and Creevy wrote the script. Chris Cowles and Chris Fenton of H2F will executive produce.
Lakeshore Entertainment horror thriller The Vatican Tapes is being presented to buyers here in Cannes and Sierra/Affinity has already closed deals in Canada, Australia, Germany, the Middle East, Thailand, Turkey and Latin America. Mark Neveldine writes and directs the exorcism pic that starts in July. Lionsgate is releasing in the fall of 2014.