"Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)With a production budget of $125 million, and box-office gross receipts of $215.4 million (domestic) and $546.4 million (worldwide).This was the highest grossing film of the series, though not the most profitable (the first brought in $457 million worldwide with an $80 million budget).When later, the two hugs parked the limo for a smoke, they heard the infant""s piteous crying in the back seat.Nothing that happens here is really important.Now get out." But Kane is steadfast: "There isn""t time." With a fatherly manner, Kane asks a young boy in town to locate Jonas Henderson, Martin Howe and Sam Fuller - and "tell ""em I want ""em here.Then, Kirk ordered Chekov to enter warp speed and return to Earth, to bring the "fugitive" to stand trial as a war criminal and to expose his secret alliance with the Admiral.The tough, ruthless cop""s selfish, solitary pursuit of the white-hot apocalyptic object in a mysterious ""Pandora""s box"" ("the great whatzit") leads to nuclear catastrophe and annihilation during the explosive ending at a Malibu beach cottage - although there is no explicit mention of the words bomb, atomic, or thermo-nuclear in the nihilistic film.