Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is afraid of a spider! A Spider-man, that is.

Paramount has decided to move Sky Captain from its June 25th release date to a safer non-summer release. It will now hit theatres on September 17th. Sky Captain looks like a great movie but it's a wise choice to push it back. It could easily be destroyed at the box office by Harry Potter and Spider-man 2.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a "... science fiction adventure set in the 1930s [that] starts as New York City reporter Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow) starts to investigate why so many famous scientists are starting to be reported missing. Soon, she starts to get clues, as strange flying machines and giant robots threaten the city. Luckily, her old flame, aviator Captain Joseph Sullivan (Jude Law), AKA Sky Captain, is there to battle the bad guys with his friends, the Flying Legion, in his Warhawk P-40. Soon, Polly is flying away with Sky Captain to Nepal to find a crazy scientist, Dr. Totenkopf, who apparently wants to destroy the world. When the danger lurks under the waters of the seas, Sky Captain seeks the help of naval adventurer Captain Franky Cook (Angelina Jolie), much to the chagrin of Polly..." (credit L.A.Times)

The most interesting aspect of Sky Captain is that all the special effects were made long before actors were hired and inserted into the film. Director Kerry Cornan created software that is a CGI program that allows him to "shoot his entire movie against blue screens, and fill in the backgrounds later with images he's been working on for years, which are mostly already done. What this allows Conran to do, which is what is so revolutionary, is to have an already existing 3-D storyboard of every scene, with stick figures in place where the actors are supposed to be." (LA Times)

Ride with the Captain in The CB Forum.
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