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'Spider-Man' premiere

Good vs. evil: Green Goblin Willem Dafoe and Spiderman Tobey Maguire smile at the premiere. To see more from this event visit InStyle.com

(In Style) -- The event: The world premiere and party of "Spiderman" in Los Angeles. On its 40th anniversary, the Marvel comic gets a makeover and leaps to the big screen as Tobey Maguire reinvents the superhero and leads the way for sequel-dom.

THE GUEST LIST

Cast members Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Willem Dafoe and director Sam Raimi, plus Will Smith, Cuba Gooding Jr., Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet, Lucy Liu, Bill Paxton, Steven Tyler, LeAnn Rimes, Macy Gray, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Adam Sandler and many others.

THE SETTING

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Cast under the web tent outside Brentwood's Wadsworth Theatre, acrobats performed daring tricks while guests had their faces painted in red and blue webs and black arachnids. Others, suited up in Velcro gear, were hoisted onto adhesive walls, flung on bungee cords or shot up on trampolines. For the Peter Parker types, "Spider-Man" video-game stations entertained while others superimposed their faces on Spider-Man's body in the computer-animated digital photo booth.

THE FOOD

Caterer Mary Micucci of Along Came Mary dished up the night with Gotham-themed food: matzo ball soup and pastrami sandwiches from the Green Goblin deli, stir-fry from Chinatown, and pizza and pasta from Little Italy. Ice-sculpted martini bars served red cosmopolitans and green apple martinis, in honor of the colors of the movie's hero and villain.

THE SCENE

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Dunst (stunning in vintage Ungaro) and her grandmother blew out candles on the 40th birthday cake for Spider-Man. Sandler posed in pictures with some of the children who attended, while Gooding Jr. watched his son conquer new heights on the web-crawler wall.