Most impressively, it became only the second movie in history to break the $500 million barrier in domestic box-office, the first being James Cameron""sTitanic (1997)with a domestic gross of $601 million.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.But then, Drago unleashed his first punch - a devastating and merciless shot that caught the confident Apollo off-guard, and then followed up with punishing blows to the head and mid-section.It""s more fantastic and grotesque than any shocker ever written."It was unofficially remade twice in two modern retellings -She Freak (1967)andFreakshow (2007).Other horror films that picked up the idea of using real-life deformed or mutated characters (without Browning""s pathos) included director Jack Cardiff""sThe Mutations (1974)and director Michael Winner""sThe Sentinel (1977).Acting in character, knowing that money can get her anything she wants, Ellie bribes him into not informing her father about her whereabouts - while touching his chest: "Listen, if you promise not to do it, I""ll pay you.