There's a cash cow in selling off the duds, props and accessories of film and TV. Calabasas, California auctioneer Profiles in History sold a cool five million on the auction block at its 37th Hollywood Memorabilia Auction on October 8-9, 2009. A lot of very interesting items made their way to new homes. Would have personally loved the Oogie Boogie piece myself. Here is a list of the iconic film items they sold off: Earhart's googles . $141,600 Original Amelia Earhart flight goggles worn during her historic 1932 solo transatlantic flight.. $106,200 Elvis Presley's personal Martin D-28 guitar state-used in his final Las Vegas performance.. $94,400 Original hero screen-used T-800 Endoskeleton from T2 3-D: Battle Across Time (Universal,1996)...
- 10/11/2009
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
The X Factor finalists' charity single 'Hero' is outselling the rest of the Top 10 combined, according to midweek sales figures. The track is outselling the current number two, Girls Aloud's 'The Promise', by four to one and is on course to become one of the decade's biggest-selling singles. The song has been number one all week on iTunes, Amazon and Play.Com's download chart. Play.com's Martin (more)...
- 10/31/2008
- by By David Balls
- Digital Spy
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