It was recently announced that Disney will be holding it’s own fan convention and expo, which will also feature an exhibition of the “Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives”, including original movie and television props, costumes, and other artifacts. Tickets are now on sale for the “D23 Expo” event, to be held at the Anaheim Convention Center September 10th – 13th, 2009. [Read more…]
In support of their Summer Sale in Las Vegas June 26-27, Julien’s Auctions has today announced their “Julien’s Live” online bidding service. Julien’s Auctions has historically used the excellent Auction Network in support of their live auction events, so this marks a change of bringing online bidding in-house, as we have seen with other auction houses such as Heritage Auction Galleries and Christie’s. [Read more…]
Based on recent events on eBay, it would appear that long-time original movie prop dealers Startifacts and Star Wares have had some business conflicts that have spilled over into the public space. Following a rash of eBay negative feedback remarks left for Star Wares, many remarks have been expunged by eBay and the startifacts account now shows a suspended “NARU” status (Not A Registered User). [Read more…]
With my recent trip to Burbank, to compare “Super Hollywood” Superman costumes with confirmed authentic examples from the Warner Bros. archives, I had a very limited window of time with which to take photographs of the costumes and produce comparisons. While I did take over 700 digital photos, I did not get every shot I would have liked to have obtained. [Read more…]
Steve ‘Frosty’ Weintraub of Collider.com has published photos of the “heavy lifter” powersuit prop from James Cameron’s upcoming film “Avatar”. This is on display at the E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) show floor in support of a game based on this movie from Ubisoft.
One of the two studio resellers of original movie and television props and wardrobe that have historically sold very high quantities of product appears to have had very limited sales in recent months and one of its two websites (rain-makers.net) is returning a “404” error status while the other (hollywoodvault.net) is stripped down to “coming soon” presentation. [Read more…]
Cameron Frye’s house from John Hughes 80s classic “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” is available for sale in Highland Park, Illinois for $2.3 million. The most memorable scenes in the house features the 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California. [Read more…]
Auction Cause has a number of items up for auction on eBay from the CBS reality television program, Survivor Tocantins. 100% of the final sale price of each item will benefit The Serpentine Project. [Read more…]
