The actor takes on a big budget fantasy movie.
The owner of the original 'hollywood' sign is auctioning the former Los Angeles landmark.
An Internet site is offering controversial filmmaker Vincent Gallo's sperm for sale for $1 million.
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 6, 2000 -- It ain't his blue suede shoes, but it's just as valuable. Elvis Presley's U.S. Army uniform goes on the auction block today, and experts say that the stained garment could fetch as much as $36,000, Reuters reports. The uniform, stained with paint after the King leaned against a freshly painted window, was issued to Presley before he headed for his station in Germany. Presley was issued a new jacket after staining the first one, but a member of the painting crew kept the original as a souvenir. It's now owned by Elvis fan Johnny Earle.
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 5, 2000 -- The country home of former Hollywood Golden Gay Couple Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche is up for sale. The Los Angeles Times reports that the $2.75 million property in Ojai, Calif., 10 acres complete with citrus and avocado orchards, is on the market. The couple were together for 3 1/2 years before their split last month. Friends said that no third party was involved in the breakup announced Aug. 19, and the women described their parting as amicable. They also have a home in the Hollywood Hills, purchased in June 1999 for $1.7 million. Shortly after the breakup, Heche, 31, was hospitalized after walking into a Central California home in a dazed state. Fresno police declined to elaborate on the actress’s condition, but a friend later said that Heche was suffering from sunstroke. Heche is currently working on a film in Toronto wit
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 20, 2000 -- Who says memories can’t be sold? Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones are reportedly trying to sell their photos of their 1-month-old baby boy, Dylan Michael, to English tabloid OK! Magazine, Mr. Showbiz reports. The photos could cost OK! as much as $1 million. The pair also are allegedly putting an estimated $2 million price tag on photos from their upcoming wedding. A date has yet to be announced for the nuptials. OK! Magazine’s editor, Martin Townsend, told Mr. Showbiz that the publication is indeed in talks for an exclusive rights agreement. “It’s perfectly normal here in England for celebrities to sell photos of their special occasions,” Townsend said. “It’s like showing off your baby’s photos in your wallet.” Douglas’ representative denies that the actor is overlooking the sale of photos from the wedding.
Film buffs and memorabilia collectors now have the chance to own props and costumes from the upcoming epic "Anna and the King" before they even get to see the film on the big screen. Twentieth Century Fox is currently holding an online auction of genuine props and handcrafted costumes from the film. The film boasts the largest set built from scratch since "Cleopatra" in the 1960s. Under the supervision of Academy award-winning production designer Luciana Arrighi and costume designer Jenny Beavan, many of the items were handmade to faithfully represent the look and feel of the time period. Bidding started in the United States on Dec. 3 at the film's official Web site, and will expand internationally to Asia, Latin America, Australia, the United Kingdom and Spain on Dec. 13. The first set of items, including hand-painted parasols and brass candelabras used in the fi
Ten class action lawsuits filed against the major movie studios question the ethics of movie junkets and the reviews that the junkets spawn. The lawsuit comes soon after Sony Pictures admitted creating a phantom critic praise The Animal and A Knight's Tale.
Two pages of doodles made by ex-Beatle John Lennon were placed on sale Tuesday at a London autograph dealer, Reuters reports.
The Muppets are up for sale again, just one year after German media group EM.TV snapped up Kermit and friends from creator Jim Henson's heirs, Variety reports. Walt Disney Co. is considered the leading candidate to buy the Los Angeles-based Henson Co. Cash-strapped EM.TV bought Henson for $680 million, but will likely have to settle for half that amount since it sold the rights to its Sesame Street-related Muppets to producer Sesame Street Workshop in December for $180 million.
The financially strapped International Museum of Cartoon Art will put a rare Mickey Mouse storyboard on the auction block for a second time in an attempt to resolve its cash crunch. The museum, located in Boca Raton, Fla., failed to find a buyer for the 36-panel storyboard drawn for the 1928 Walt Disney cartoon Plane Crazy the first time it was put up at auction May 19. The storyboard features the first drawings of Mickey Mouse, according to museum founder and Beetle Bailey comic creator Mort Walker. A new auction is scheduled for 3 p.m. Friday, June 8, at the New York offices of Guernsey's auction house. The museum needs to sell the storyboard--which is estimated to be worth more than $3 million--to pay off a $2 million debt.
Adding to the already lengthy list of celebrity auctions, one of the late Jimi Hendrix's guitars will be placed up for sale by Bonhams and Brooks, Reuters reports. The auction is being organized by Hendrix's one-time girlfriend Kathy Etchingham, and the guitar--a vintage Epiphone that Hendrix used to write songs--is expected to bring in approximately $140,000. The guitar legend passed away 30 years ago due to a sleeping pill overdose.
The car driven by actor Michael Keaton in Batman Returns will be up for bid in Los Angeles, the BBC reports, in a massive automobile auction.
The church hall stage on which founding Beatles members Paul McCartney and John Lennon first met is being sold by a Liverpool clergyman, resulting in hate mail by enraged Beatles fans.