Julie Taymor's film "The Tempest" with Helen Mirren as Prospera opens in New York and Los Angeles tonight

Julie Taymor’s new feature film “The Tempest,” featuring Academy Award winner Helen Mirren as Prospera, “an exiled sorceress whose vengeance is unleashed when her enemies are shipwrecked on her magical island,” opens in New York and Los Angeles tonight prior to expanding to other cities on 17th December.
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Taymor, who is currently represented on Broadway with the previewing Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark (as well as the hit The Lion King), penned the screenplay based on the William Shakespeare classic.
In addition to Mirren, the starry company also features Russell Brand, Alfred Molina, Djimon Hounsou, David Strathairn, Chris Cooper, Alan Cumming, Ben Whishaw, Reeve Carney (who is now starring as Spider-Man), Felicity Jones and Tom Conti.