Movies: The Sky's The Limit

Kerry Conran's home movie isn't like yours. His stars Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and big robots

It's not often you get to see so clearly how money is the only difference between genius and insanity. If Paramount hadn't given first-time director Kerry Conran $40 million to make the action movie Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow with Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow (opening Sept. 17), Conran would still be filming his brother acting out scenes in front of a blue screen in his apartment, then staying up all night turning that footage into a giant-robot movie on his Macintosh. He would have been that guy in your IT department you go to only when no one...

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