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Get Your Bids In Prop Store have done it again and announced their annual live auction of film and TV memorablia.  There are plenty of Steven Spielberg interest here with props from Hook, Saving Private Ryan and Back to the Future.  Lucasfilm collectors will also be eager to bid on lots from Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and Labyrinth.  Who wouldn't want to tinker with Jareth's crystal ball?  We have the full press release below and details on how you can register. Film & TV memorabilia worth in excess of £4.4 million ($5.6 million) will be auctioned by Prop Store in a two-day auction on 1st & 2nd December 2020   Bids can be placed online or by phone from anywhere in the world Last year’s UK auction saw a Radio-Controlled Hero Ghost Trap from GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) sell for an astonishing £186,900 Prop Store  – one of the world’s leading film and TV memorabilia companies has today announced it is to hold its annual live auction of film and TV me...

Brad’s April Escape - Part 13 April 21 - Saving Private Ryan Each weekday this month, I’ll screen a film from The Bearded Trio Cinematic Universe and list 10 random scenes, characters, musical cues or performances that I particularly enjoy and look forward to upon every viewing. I’d love to hear similar little things you enjoy about these films, and hope you join me in this escape from the present-day world. Next up is a film that acts as a perfect complement to yesterday's post,  Saving Private Ryan  (1998). Saving Private Ryan - An Introduction Oliver Stone considers Nixon (1995) a sequel to JFK (1991). And that makes total sense. Same filmmaker, focusing on two historical individuals, who have enough common elements in their stories to be strongly linked. I have been trying to justify, in my mind, a sequel connection between Schindler's List (1993) and today's focus, Saving Private Ryan (1998). Reasons to sequel one to the other lie in the o...

Most of us can only imagine what it would be like to work with Steven Spielberg.  Some have been lucky enough to work with the director but for some it wasn't all plane sailing straight out of the box.  Take Edward Burns who talks about his time on Saving Private Ryan in his new book " Independent Ed " and in particular how nervous he was.  He admits that he 'botched' many takes: He recalls Tom Hanks leaning in and whispering to him to calm down ("I've seen you act before, and this isn't acting!" he claims Hanks said). Yet despite several uncomfortable takes, Spielberg offered zero feedback, which terrified Burns. "Most directors would have stepped in after my first botched take, offered some notes, and inadvertently rattled my confidence. But this wasn't Steven's approach with us. He allowed us several takes to figure things out for ourselves. So much that he didn't provide any direction for almost two weeks. We did our s...