Sky Captain Conquers Box Office

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow has stomped its way to #1 on the box office in North America over this past weekend, so reports the HollyWood Reporter. It took in an estimated $16million dollars.

Considering that this weekend there was very little in the box offices as far as competition I am not surprised that Sky Captain hammered its way on top. But for a movie that was made for $70million it has a ways to go to make that back.

The story is set in late-1930s New York City and follows Polly Perkins (Paltrow), a crack reporter working on a story about numerous world-famous scientists who have mysteriously gone missing. Suddenly, all heck breaks loose and strange flying machines threaten Manhattan while gigantic walking robots trample city blocks. To get to the bottom of it all, Polly joins forces with her old flame and sometime adversary Capt. Joseph Sullivan (Jude Law), known as Sky Captain. He commands the Flying Legion, battling bad guys in his Warhawk P-40. Dashing, huh?  Sky and Polly fly to a remote part of Nepal (think Shangri-La) to track down the crazed mastermind Dr. Totenkopf, who wants to destroy the world.

Jolie plays Capt. Franky Cook, an associate of Sky Captain and Giovanni Ribisi stars as Sky's gadget-apt buddy, Dex.  Bai Ling also has a small role in the film.