'Super' movie premiere: Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler -- and Liv's dad, Steven

"Super," the James Gunn film with the guts to cast Rainn Wilson as a superhero, has traveled through the worlds of Comic-Con and SXSW on its way to theater screens -- but a premiere Monday in Hollywood suggests the film's April 1 release date isn't any April Fool's gag.

Writer-director Gunn and Wilson -- whose character Frank D'Arbo transforms himself into the superhero Crimson Bolt -- hit the red carpet outside the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood with wife Holiday Reinhorn and costars Ellen Page, Liv Tyler and Nathan Fillion to mark the pending arrival of the independently financed feature.

Other faces from the cast included Mikaela Hoover, Greg Ingram and Michael Rooker. Aerosmith lead singer and "American Idol" judge Steven Tyler turned out to support his daughter, who plays the wife of Wilson's D'Arbo in the film, and also to support Gunn, who on Tuesday tweeted, "Steven Tyler was the nicest guy. He gave me a big hug. He's a hero."

Also spotted: Sarah Silverman, Virginia Madsen, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Tila Tequila and Sasha Grey, who said on Twitter, "a brilliant, authentic dark comedy. Rainn Wilson is comedic gold." Click the pics for more photos from the event.

"Super," described by The Times' Marc Olsen as "an alternately wild and moody film that is equal parts love story, portrait of mental instability and raucous comic-book-inspired action picture," had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and screened at the South By Southwest festival in Austin this month. 

The film opens in limited release -- mostly at theaters in L.A. -- on April 1, going wider week by week. It also will be available via video-on-demand.

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-- Christie D'Zurilla

 

Left photo: Liv Tyler and Steven Tyler. Credit: Chris Pizzello / Associated Press

Right photo: Rainn Wilson with Sarah Silverman at the premiere of "Super" at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood Monday. Credit: Fred Prouser / Reuters

Ben Stiller, Ashton Kutcher, Will Ferrell have tweet reading for Haiti

Some of Hollywood's most enthusiastic social media fans -- including Ben Stiller, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Will Ferrell, Rainn Wilson, Mindy Kaling, Samantha Ronson and Diablo Cody -- got together to get their Tweet on Friday night in Hollywood.

At the Upright Citizens Brigade, the organization Artists for Peace and Justice hosted more than 160 people sharing their favorite tweets, twitpics and twitvids, with ticket sales benefiting earthquake victims in Haiti. 

Demi showed her famous dentist visit photo captioned "Keeping it real." Kutcher offered a YouTube clip about the rise of Twitter and other networks called "The New Dork (Entrepreneur State of Mind)," which name-drops him. 

Stiller read his all-time favorite tweet, "On a remote island vacationing, really enjoying dropping off the grid, totally disconnecting from the world."

The comic-heavy crowd wasn't shy with their 140 characters, taking on popular targets like "Precious" actress Gabourey Sidibe and Justin Bieber. 

Writer Cody sported a fake baby bump and, with a grimace, admitted "@justinbieber, you're the father." 

"Christian Bale lost 80 pounds to play 'The Machinist,' " noted Justin Long. "Big deal. Gabourey Sidibe lost 300 to play Precious."

Rich Sommer, from AMC's "Mad Men," stood and delivered his tweet completely in the nude -- the tweet not so coincidentally pertaining to a bad dream about speaking before a crowd in his birthday suit. 

The reading was taped for future sale on iTunes and also featured live readings from "The Hangover" star Ed Helms; comedians Michael Ian Black, Jenny McCarthy and Dane Cook; "Lost" creator Damon Lindelof; Mary Lynn Rajskub, John Cho, Nia Vardalos, Dave Foley, Lake Bell, Busy Phillips, Al Yankovic, Wilmer Valderrama and MTV VJ Dave Holmes. 

Rob Corddry, Questlove of the Roots and nerd pin-up Olivia Munn all sent twitvids in their absence. 

-- Matt Donnelly

Photo: Social media spouses Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore. Credit: WireImage

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PREACH IT! Why pay for cable when you can watch celebrity Twitter wars for free?

Honestly, I have no idea why people say the Internets are poisoning our brains and wasting away our fine nation. Those people obviously have never enjoyed a decent celebrity Twitter war.

They have never watched Lindsay Lohan air every detail of her spats with Sam Ronson, or observed Ashton Kutcher publicly debone a neighbor for daring to remodel a house, or decoded WHATEVER IT IS THAT KIRSTIE ALLEY IS RAGING ABOUT IN ALL CAPS.

If there’s one beautiful thing that the new millennium has brought to Hollywood, it’s a kind of delicious communications chaos. Publicists no longer have the power they once wielded over when and how a star would say stuff, and Twitter is ground zero for that Tinseltown Ragnarok. John Mayer directly spatting with Perez Hilton over a street fight involving the Black Eyed Peas? Merry Christmas in June!

The latest example of social media bread and circuses: Kevin Smith waging a siege worthy of Caesar against religious zealot Megan Phelps-Roper, granddaughter of the Rev. Fred Phelps. Smith’s allies: comedic actors Rainn Wilson and Michael Ian Black, who also tweeted against the anti-gay bigot.

It all went down this week, and make no mistake: It was 14 flavors of righteous...