Film Debut Lures Too Many to California Adventure Park

Hundreds of people invited to the Walt Disney Co.’s California Adventure theme-park theater for a movie premiere were turned away because too many showed up for the screening.

Disney officials said they were simply overwhelmed by response to the premiere of the movie “Spy Kids” in the Anaheim park’s 1,400-seat Hyperion Theater. The movie opens nationwide March 30.

“There should have been more coordination,” said Carrie Breger, who drove down from Thousand Oaks with her two children for the “Spy Kids” showing.

For many of the guests turned away from the screening, the disappointment came hours after they had first checked in with park officials, then patiently waited in the hot sun as the stars of the film, including Cheech Marin, walked down the red carpet.