2021 Cannes Film Festival Was Briefly Evacuated Due to a 'Suspicious Package'

The 74th annual Cannes Film Festival was briefly put on lockdown due to what initially appeared to be a bomb scare, Variety reported this morning.At 3 p.m. local time, police said that "they had found a suspicious package in a storage area at the back of the building and that they were preparing to investigate" while the festival was in full swing at the Palais des Festivals, according to Variety. People in the Debussy theater and in the wing closest were evacuated, disrupting the scheduled scre...