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San Diego Comic Con 2011: Preview Night, Photos of Original TV & Movie Props and Costumes on Exhibit

Wednesday night was the special “preview night” for Comic Con 2011 in San Diego. To kick off annual coverage of original television and movie prop and costume related material from the biggest pop culture event of the year, as is tradition, the Original Prop Blog is publishing photos from the main exhibit hall of Comic Con of some of the related items on exhibit and display. This year includes pieces from Dark Knight, Watchmen, Superman Returns, Inception, The Hangover Part II, 300, The Three Musketeers, and Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance, and Men in Black 3.  In particular, Legendary Pictures has an extensive display of original movie props and costumes. [Read more…]

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300: Did They Reuse Props/Designs from Other Films? – Update 4

This is an additional update to these articles:

300: Did They Reuse Props/Designs from Other Films? – Update 1 – Update 2 – Update 3

Here are some comments from David of Back Lot Props, reposted from his reader comment posted in Update 2: [Read more…]

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300: Did They Reuse Props/Designs from Other Films? – Update 1

This is an update to yesterday’s article, “300: Did They Reuse Props/Designs from Other Films?“.

I opened a new discussion topic about this on the Movie Prop Forum yesterday to see if I could find out any additional information from the membership there – 300 Props, Swords – and received some interesting information – an answer to the question posed in the title of the article (Answer: “Yes”). [Read more…]

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300: Did They Reuse Props/Designs from Other Films?

There is a current eBay auction in which a sword is being marketed as “the Hero Bronze sword used by Ephialtes in the film 300”.

The auction (Item # 300126771921), “FRANK MILLER 300 original film prop Hero sword Ephialte“, from eBay seller “www.rareprops.com” (RareProps, also selling on the website www.RareProps.net), shows a photo of a sword that appears to be of the same style of swords also used in the film, Troy. [Read more…]