Screenused.com holds next auction this Saturday at 10am Pacific on Icollector

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Superman “Man of Steel” props and Wardrobe coming to auction this Saturday

Coming this Saturday March 2nd various props and wardrobe will be available from Man of Steel, the new Superman movie due in theaters this Summer.

One of the items already sold from Man of Steel include this Street sign from Smallville, the actual town of Plano, IL where the movie was filmed two years ago.

Sold by Premiere Props and purchased originally by a member of the collecting community at an auction at one of the filming locations last year these items are some of the first to be released from the movie that has a very tight lid on plot and images so far from the production.

Items include Henry Cavil’s shirt, Amy Adams top, Lois Lanes picture from her apartment, a boat sculpture and signage from Downtown Small ville and the items all come with Paperwork from the seller.

These items will be hotly contested now the original trailer has been released, and the film is expected to do big business. If you want to get a great memento of the film, before its released since the prices will probably sky rocket the day of the film coming out now is your chance.

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Premiere Props Hollywood auction Extravaganza IX pre auction review

Another three months has slipped by since the December auction review so its now just four days away from the next event.

Being conducted on both Icollector and Liveauctioneers is standard for Premiere but I also find it interesting to note which items are top of the pops the week before the event as icollector allows you to search by number of hits, bids and bookmarks. A very useful way to see which items are being looked at the most.

At $2800 The dudes costume from The Big Lebowski is number one most viewed  item so far and comes with a coa. Not much to say other than it comes with an original wardrobe tag. This will be popular mainly because its a cult classic and also the other wardrobe from the movie has gone for ALOT over the years.

Next at a slightly less expensive $150 is Henry Cavills wardrobe piece from “Man of Steel”….and funnily enough its from me. This is just one of several pieces of clothing I picked up from the production that was being sold off last year. No idea where its being used as obviously the films not out yet but getting something from the film now will be alot cheaper than waiting the day before the film releases!

The True Grit hat and block from the Jeff Bridges remake is next at $300 so far and I expect this to have to plow some way to meet the reserve since the piece is expected to hit $7500. Its a beautiful piece from a great movie….very much recommended if your thinking about it. Great providence too!

The Michael Jackson glove at $5500 Im afraid im not well versed in. Looks good and has provenance so any interested parties can look that homework up for themselves. There has been so many sold over the years its hard to keep up with whats sold and when to who.

Then an item unsold from December in the form of John Candys Spaceballs costume makes a reappearance, followed by the wonderful Teen Wolf 2 costume….which has been missing for all these years and finally shows up. As silly as it is its wonderful to see this still even exists!

So those are the most hit items by page views…but what about bid amounts. As usual it tells a different story.

258Michael Jackson Swarovski Personally Owned Crystal Glove

• Current Bid: 5,500.00
• One of the true crowning collectibles of all collectibles, this is an actual glove worn and owned by Michael Jackson. It is a signature white classic

Start Price : 1,000.00 | Estimates : 50,000.00 – 60,000.00

1183:10 To Yuma Ben Wade Russell Crowe Hero Hand Of God Pistol

• Current Bid: 3,000.00
• This is one of the most sought after iconic guns in Western movie history. The Hero gun screen used exclusively by Russell Crowe in the 2007 blockbust

Start Price : 3,000.00 | Estimates : 35,000.00 – 50,000.00

62The Big Lebowski The Dude Jeff Bridges Hero Bathrobe And Undergarments Current Bid: 2,800.00

• Truly one of the most iconic bathrobes in movie history! A collectable above all collectibles! This is the hero screen worn bathroom, (as well as t-s

Start Price : 500.00 | Estimates : 3,000.00 – 4,600.00

119Resident Evil: Extinction Alice Live Fire Pistols

• Current Bid: 2,200.00
• A truly rare and amazing collectable! These are the actual pair of matching live fire hero pistols used by Alice (Milla Jovovich) throughout “Resident

Start Price : 500.00 | Estimates : 7,000.00 – 12,000.00

599Underworld: Rise of the Lycans Viktor (Bill Nighy) Costume

• Current Bid: 1,700.00
• From “Underworld: Rise of the Lycans” (2009), the sequel that reveals the origins of the long feud between the vampires and the Lycans, th…

Start Price : 500.00 | Estimates : 1,000.00 – 1,200.00

109The Matrix Neo Keanu Reeves Neck Plug and Gun

• Current Bid: 1,500.00
• The groundbreaking “The Matrix” (1999), described by many as “Alice In Wonderland on acid and steroids”, blew audiences away wit…

Start Price : 500.00 | Estimates : 2,000.00 – 2,500.00

97The Godfather Accordion

• Current Bid: 1,000.00
• A true iconic one-of-a-kind treasure from the one and only “The Godfather” (1972). This is the actual accordion played in the famous Fred…

Start Price : 500.00 | Estimates : 20,000.00 – 30,000.00

295Charlottes’ Web Mechanical Wilbur The Pig

• Current Bid: 1,000.00
• From E.B. White’s beloved novel, “Charlotte’s Web”, this is a grand iconic piece of movie memorabilia from the delightful 2006 feature The…

Start Price : 500.00 | Estimates : 4,000.00 – 6,000.00

83Outland/ Aliens Spacesuit/Helmet/Oxygen Pack Costume

• Current Bid: 975.00

So those are the top bid upon items so far. Obviously this is never an example of final bid prices but at least it is interesting to see what is getting the most interest.

So what are other items in the auction worth bringing attention to. Well obviously John Skotak has put the Aliens/Outland suit in and is a superb although expensive piece. I expect that to have a reserve on it as John tends to do that.

The other four cool script items are from celebrity actor David Warner and his Script for Titanic is a wonderful addition to the auction. I expect that to go high as its a beautiful piece with lots of extras and already at $500, as will his Star Trek 6 script.

This is another cool piece Tom Hanks jumper from “Castaway”

I adore the guns from Django unchained….a superb movie but I just dont see them getting $30-40k. I like to be proved wrong but I doubt without huge advertising these will sell this weekend. Great piece though. The 3:10 to Yuma gun is already at $3,000 so perhaps we will be in for a surprise! Thell Read the maker will be at the auction and live on video so perhaps he will enlighten us to the making of these pieces.

These Resident Evil Extinction live fire pistols are also in the auction and around the $2,000 mark right now.

As usual these guns require special paperwork so if you want something a little more for display the next items may be more to your liking.

rubber stunt gun from Terminator Salvation

                    Terra Nova stunt rifle

Snake Eyes gun from GI Joe

So anything else caught my eye. Well there is this fabulous pistol from the scifi film Looper which is at a low $100 right now.

There are also these stunt guns from the movie Resident Evil Afterlife that I thought were very spiffy.

With 733 lots there really is something for everyone. I encourage you as always to take a look, if you decide you want more advice then always feel free to send an email, or ask other collectors for help and advice. Its a strong auction and I for one look forward to bidding on a few pieces. Good luck!

Premiereprops two day event is this Saturday and Sunday starting in Person in LA or online on Liveauctioneers and Icollector at 11 am Pacific. Video is available to watch during the show and the events last 6-9 hours depending on the amount and speed of items sold. Viewing is available two hours before the event starts.

 

 

 

The Propstore of London/LA “Judge Dredd” auction results

Well after being laid up sick with the flu in the last stages of the auction here are the final results….and quite frankly I think most of the community of collectors were pretty staggered. Was it hype? Probably but more so the sheer number of people looking to buy pieces to copy them on the RPF was pretty amazing.

Somehow I’m not sure the high dollar collectors will be appreciating that the costumes are being copied and researched to make almost perfect replicas. This is a talk for a different article but the problem with replicas as I see it is they devalue the originals. Now I know this is a hot topic so feel free to write below your thoughts and feelings on it but with the prices paid for these costumes is it almost that people have no choice but to make a replica since the number of costumes available was so small and so pricey.

Anyway onto the items.

Well we already know the Dredd sold for around the 25k mark. Here are some of the other prices realized for posterity:

DREDD Original Rookie Judge Anderson Complete Stunt Costume & Utility Belt $15,876

DREDD- Original Judge Guthrie (Francis Chouler) Complete Costume & Utility Belt $11,615

 

DREDD- Original Judge Lex Complete Costume & Utility Belt (with Stunt) $11,464

DREDD – Original Hero Lawmaster Motorcycle “MC01 / Y349″ – $10,842

DREDD Original Judge Kaplan (Michele Levin) Complete Costume & Utility Belt $7579

DREDD – Original Judge Buell Costume & Utility Belt $7175

The seperate armor pieces with badges went for $7098 for Dredds, $4350 for Judge Andersons with badge, and Judge Poolmans for $3137.

This prototype helmet went for a huge $4733 even though it wasn’t used. A little too much there methinks.

I respect that production made items are cool but I think of anything likely to not keep its value its the more trinkety items that didn’t sell for that much anyway and these non used helmets. Having said that its very pretty but something important should be noted….that if you had split these items in the auction up then instead of this unused piece you could quite easily have walked away with a screen used helmet.

I did mention this on several forums to somewhat deaf ears. Unfortunately people don’t always understand that working together pays dividends. Lets take an example of the $5,000 first suit of Judge armor that was complete minus the helmet sold in the first week, day 1 of the auction. If you had separated that costume out into the following pieces you could have had the following, using the top average prices of items sold over the next two weeks.

boots: $500

Flashbang sphere $400

belt with buckle: $500

chest armor: $2500

gloves: $500

smoke grenade: $500

Lawgiver magazine: $500

Plasticuffs & mines: $400

and that’s not EVEN including the body suit consisting of jacket and trousers! Anyway here is a classic example of splittable items that I am a huge proponent of and I think that in this case some disappointed bidders could have gotten a little more bang for there buck. Something to think about…..

Overall despite the mistakes mostly due to ebay on the first day with the items not showing on search, and then the inability to find the listings easily using various ebay entry points online the overall event was a huge success for Propstore and a damn good show off of the hobby in general. I just think as usual with SO MANY people wanting to work together on the replicas if more people had worked together to get items and not been so blinkered in there attempts to grab stuff everyone may have done a little better. An opportunity lost? Who knows….certainly the production company should be very happy that a movie that did so poorly at the box office has done so well in the eyes of the collector fans and on blu ray. A definite win!

A huge congrats then to Tim, Steve, Brandon and of course Sian who made it all possible! It was fun to follow….and of course Ill have a fully pictorial of my winnings (yep….I did…..) coming in the next two weeks.