This week Prop Store announced their latest live auction for Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), which will happen on December 2nd and is officially in partnership with Paramount Pictures. Up for sale will be over 400 film artifacts used in the two productions. [Read more…]
Yesterday, Prop Store launched their latest online-only auction, this time for Paramount’s G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra. The auction, running through February 17th, features many costumes from principal characters in the film, as well as some props, scripts, and other production material.
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An issue that seems to come up with every official studio auction of original props and costumes from popular television shows is that of buyers feeling mislead by descriptions of auction houses, particularly use. We saw this with Christie’s and their official “40 years of Star Trek” auction, with Profiles in History and their sale of material from ABC’s LOST, and based on a reader comment today on my article about newcomer ScreenBid and their Breaking Bad auction, it would seem that the same issue is in play with this latest sale as well. Since people likely don’t check my articles for comments after reading it, I thought it might be worthwhile and productive to highlight that comment and my response in a new article, as it is an issue that seems to occur with each of these official studio sales, particularly because it brings in participants who have not participated in such sales before, and perhaps have not purchased or collected original props, costumes, and other artifacts from film and television. [Read more…]
Darren Julien of Julien’s Auctions appeared on “Fox Business Network” yesterday to discuss some of the Michael Jackson-related highlights from his auction at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas June 24-27. [Read more…]
Julien’s Auctions has published a video on YouTube featuring a guided tour of their Roddenberry Estate auction, part of their Summer Entertainment Sale at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, June 24-27. The host of the video is Rod Roddenberry, son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and actress Majel Barrett. [Read more…]
Julien’s Auctions next series of Entertainment Memorabilia auctions will be held in Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on June 24th-27th, 2010. The catalogs are available for purchase and the “Hollywood Legends” catalog can now be viewed online.
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A new blog marketing the upcoming Star Trek portion of the Profiles in History “Hollywood Auction 40” has launched on the Internet, with additional photos and video of lots from the upcoming sale. The videos uploaded thus far highlight the working electronics of some of the hero hand props from the Star Trek auction on June 12, 2010. [Read more…]
Julien’s Auctions next series of Entertainment Memorabilia auctions will be held in Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on June 24th-27th, 2010. The catalogs are available for purchase and the Star Trek catalog can now be viewed online. Included in the sale is material that is part of the Gene & Majel Roddenberry estate as well as assets from the most recent J.J. Abrams reboot of the Star Trek franchise. [Read more…]
