Cannes: International movie celebrities were scared almost to death by a failed PR stunt staged by an internet company, which hired fake Islamic State-looking commandos to make a sea landing at a hotel where the stars were staying during the Cannes Film Festival.

According to RT online, guests at the five-star Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc said that men dressed as "IS-like" terrorists and flying a black flag resembling the jihadists' banner approached on a speedboat before docking at the resort harbour.