Director Christopher Nolan waited eight years before this reintroduction (reboot) of the character.With only one Academy Award nomination (and no win): Best Cinematography.With a domestic box-office gross of $205.3 million, and $372 million (worldwide), and a production budget of $150 million.The film was both a critical and commercial success.Batman (1989)d.Tim Burton, 126 minutesFilm Plot SummaryThe film opened with the disguised, black-caped crusader Batman (Michael Keaton) confronting two robbers in a dark, deserted, crime-ridden Gotham City alleyway after they had assaulted a tourist couple with a young boy - he kicked one thug through a doorway, and menaced the other one - warning him to tell his criminal friends about their new adversary ("I want you to tell all your friends about me.Was it a reactionary message piece against imperfect, "liberal" judicial trends that let ""sicko"" criminals get away, literally, with murder? Or was Siegel encouraging audiences to empathically identify with the indiscriminate vengeance of the violent, anarchic, unrestrained vigilante ""killer"" on the side of the law who acts as an autonomous police power?The screenplay, credited to husband-and-wife team Harry Julian Fink & R.Just one good beat, a Tatum special, and they""ll roll out the red carpet.Because when they need you, hey forgive and forget.But until then, Mr.Boot, you""ll get yourself he best newspaperman you ever had.At $40 per, when do I start?Small-town, kindly teetotaler Boot had only one reservation about Tatum""s background - his drinking (specifically not allowed on the job), and he asked: "And as for drinking, do you drink a lot?" Tatum affirmed: "Not a lot.Even at this early stage in the film, Marvin was contemplating ways to solve the problem:Carter: Same old system.