It’s Italy vs. Hollywood

Anti-globalization activists on Thursday vowed more disturbances at Venice’s most ambitious film festival in years to protest Hollywood’s wealth and reach.

Dozens of activists demonstrated on the red carpet of the festival’s main Art Deco cinema late Wednesday to complain about big-budget U.S. blockbusters and high ticket prices, parking a car decked out as a pirate ship in front of the cinema.

Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg had launched the festival with a screening of “The Terminal” earlier that day as part of the organizers’ efforts to remake the event as a star-studded affair, but the anti-capitalists were not impressed.

“This should be an event open equally to everyone, not an ostentatious show of wealth and Hollywood power,” Luca Casarini, one of the “no-global” organizers, said Thursday. “There are going to be more disturbances. We want our voice heard.”