Cannes Film Festival gunshots on live air alarmed everyone in attendance including actors, Christopher Waltz and Daniel Auteuil who went running for cover. Video of the melee and cacophonous scene beow. 

Reuters is reporting that a man fired a starter pistol two times in the air, loaded only with blanks, during a live television broadcast at the Cannes Film Festival waterfront. 

Academy Award winning actor, Christopher Waltz, was in attendance when the Cannes Film Festival gunshots rang out, and the video below shows him, actor, Daniel Auteuil, and everyone others diving for cover as authorities try and subdue the gun-toting lunatic. 

The French television station Canal+ was broadcasting the prestigious Cannes Film Festival and interviewing the star of Django Unchained, Christopher Waltz, as well as French actor, Daniel Auteuil, when the gunshots sounded and sent everyone in attendance into a panic.

Christopher Waltz and Daniel Auteuil both dived for cover as did the interviewers as the crowd and the television operators looked about frantically. The Cannes gunshots reverberated throughout the air.  

A witness to the Cannes gunshots, Arthur Laiguesse, told Reuters "The bodyguards jumped over the barriers into the crowd and pulled him to the ground. The police arrived and told everyone to run because there was a grenade in his hand."

When police arrived at the scene they found the man was carrying a dummy grenade and a knife, with the police saying afterwards, "it really appears to be a crazy guy." Waltz, Auteuil and everyone watching the broadcast would certainly agree after the Cannes gunshots sounded out with cameras rolling.

After the man was lead away in custody, the host of the interviewers told everyone "The show must go on," in true movie form. 

Christopher Waltz, who won a Best Supporting Oscar for his performances in the Quentin Tarantino directed films, Inglourious Bastards and Django Unchained, as well as French actor, Daniel Auteuil, both returned to the set and continued the interview, though both were quite dazed by what had just occurred. 

The shooting was just the latest security snafu on only the third day of the 12-day festival, with authorities saying $1.4 million worth of Chopard jewelry, intended to be worn by the Cannes Film Festival movie stars, had been stolen from the room at the Suite Novotel hotel overnight on Thursday. 

Check out the hair-raising Cannes Film Festival gunshots below!