" Brilliant, but fading alcoholic movie actor Norman Maine (James Mason) arrives late to the benefit, obviously drunk." The Machines had gained control of Smith through Neo""s jacked-in body - and destroyed him.The Source confirmed Smith""s deletion: "It is done."Neo was taken away by the machines to assimilate his code into the mainframe.Conditions returned to normality - the Zion war ended ("the war is over"), peace came as the Sentinels withdrew, and the Oracle and Sati were restored within a world devoid of green tint (the sun was shining in a blue sky over the city)."Its skillful direction was provided by Lloyd Bacon, with a funny, often sardonic screenplay by Rian James and James Seymour, and the film was nominated for Best Picture.At the same time, after Tarkin had asserted his dominance over the Death Star project, Krennic departed the Death Star in a shuttle also en route to the planet of Eadu, an Imperial Kyber Refinery.With a production budget of $8 million (estimated), and box-office gross receipts of $18 million (domestic).