Heritage Auction Galleries has published on their latest online catalog and listings for their upcoming event, “Stallone: The Auction”, to be held December 18th – 20th at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. The sale features over 1,400 lots of props, costumes, and other assets personally owned by the Hollywood legend, Sylvester Stallone. Definitely one of the most exciting auctions of the year. [Read more…]
Heritage Auctions Announces Sylvester Stallone Sale; Promotes With Bizarre, Low Budget Video?
Yesterday, Heritage Auctions announced their October sale event, “Stallone – The Collection”, which garnered a lot of mainstream media coverage and interest. Strangely, the main marketing piece published was a bizarre, low budget (no budget?) video, which entailed not much more than following Sylvester Stallone around with a video camera (or maybe mobile phone shooting video?) as he seemingly pulls items out of wooden crates at random. Accompanied by bad elevator music, there is no interview or narration or questions or presentation by anyone from Heritage, as they stand around watching him indiscriminately look for pieces to hold up for the camera and come up with anecdotes to fill the silence amid the unidentified, bored-looking spectators surrounding him. I guess some might categorize it as “better than nothing”, but it certainly doesn’t do justice to one of the biggest box office icons of all-time. [Read more…]