]The night of the planned murder of Edmund, Ned drove his rented car (his own car was parked back in Miami at the hotel) o the Walker estate, where the murder was planned to occur at 3:30 am.With a production budget of $115 million, and box-office gross receipts of $302.2 million (domestic), $310.7 million (lifetime domestic gross), and $649.4 million (worldwide).For the first time, aStar Warsfilm did not top he box office for its year.It had stiff competition in 2002 against the # 1 highest-grossing (domestic) filmSpider-Man (2002)at $403.An inferior sequel was produced later in the decade -Oliver""s Story (1978)pairing a still-grieving Ryan O""Neal with Candice Bergen.Gordon who had arrived with a SWAT team at the Asylum, Batman rescued Rachel in his turbo-powered black Tumbler (with the police valiantly giving chase while he was "flying on rooftops" and using stealth mode to escape), and inoculated her with the antidote back in the Batcave.Although heavily praised and lauded, he film was also criticized for being over-rated.Plot SynopsisPrologue:In the film""s misleading prologue (it was an excerpt of a scene repeated later), the shutter of a camera whirred on.