Last night the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced plans for a museum dedicated to the history of movies, tentatively called “The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures”, it is intended to take over the former May Company Department Store building near LACMA. [Read more…]
Burley Auction Group is holding an auction on October 22nd in Round Mountain, Texas to liquidate inventory from Moody Anderson and Terry Boothe’s “Texas Traders” movie prop warehouse. Auction partner AuctionZip boasts material from True Grit, Office Space, Dazed and Confused, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, other films. In fact, it is claimed that “Moody has supplied props to nearly every movie filmed in Texas over the past 30 years“, though real details about auction items and lots are sparse at this time. [Read more…]
The EMP Museum (Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame) in Seattle, Washington has a new exhibition starting today. The exhibit, “Can’t Look Away: The Lure of Horror Film”, features original movie props and interactive experiences for visitors of the museum. [Read more…]
Julien’s Auctions Executive Director, Martin Nolan, appeared as a guest on this morning’s broadcast of The Today Show. In it, he discusses a set of rare Marilyn Monroe material which will be featured in an upcoming auction, which includes previously unseen photographs, the negatives, and the copyright to the respective images. [Read more…]
Below is the latest updated list of upcoming original movie and television prop, wardrobe, and memorabilia auction events. Please contact me if you are aware of any coming events of interest to collectors.
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Beginning today, the Original Prop Blog, LLC is announcing a program offering potential advertising opportunities for select companies to place paid display advertisements on the Original Prop Blog website. [Read more…]
Relativity Media has announced an online charity auction for their upcoming feature film, Machine Gun Preacher. Among the auction items is a “rat bike” motorcycle ridden by Gerard Butler, the star of the movie. 100% of the proceeds of the auction will benefit The Angels of East Africa Organization. [Read more…]
John Wayne Enterprises features in an AOL “You’ve Got…” video published in support of the Heritage Auction Galleries sale of memorabilia on October 6th and 7th at the Hyatt Regency Century Place in Los Angeles. [Read more…]