15 ‘used’ oscar statuettes up for auction
Fifteen Oscar statuettes are to be auctioned off next week in what organisers said on Tuesday is the largest collection of Academy Awards ever to go under the hammer.
Los Angeles auctioneers Nate D. Sanders said the Oscars that will go up for grabs two days after the 2012 Academy Awards ceremony include the one given to writer Herman Mankiewicz for his Citizen Kane screenplay with Orson Welles. Welles’ own best screenplay Oscar for the 1941 movie — regarded as one of the best films ever made — fetched $861,542 at a Nate D. Sanders auction in December. Other Oscars up for sale on February 28 include the 1933 best picture Oscar for Cavalcade, film editing and musical score statuettes for the 1946 classic The Best Years of Our Lives and cinematographer Gregg Toland’s 1939 Oscar for the black and white movie Wuthering Heights.
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UK’s Legendary Twickenham studios to close
Britain’s 100-year-old Twickenham Studios, the home of such classics as the Beatles’ Help and A Hard Day’s Night, the Michael Caine movies Alfie and The Italian Job, will shut down.
Faced with continuing losses, the studio said that it plans to wind down production over the next months, then sell the studio before June, reported BBC online. The studio lost about $600,000 during its fiscal year ended March 2011.
“I think it is a real shame that Twickenham’s closing. It’s one of our older studios. It’s nice when you work where you feel like there’s a real sort of tradition of the British film industry. ... The film industry is buoyant at the moment, there is work coming in. There doesn’t seem like there is any reason for it to shut,” said Rupert Lloyd Parry, incharge of the studio.
— PTI
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