A collection of 15 Oscar statuettes which were handed out to recipients, including the writer for .Citizen Kane., fetched more than $3 million at an auction here Tuesday, two days after the 84th Academy Awards ceremony.A statuette which was won by Herman Mankiewicz for penning the script for the 1941 best screenplay winner .Citizen Kane., grossed $588,455, the highest bid at the event held by Beverly Hills-based auctioneer Nate D. Sanders, according to the auction house.The record number of gold statuettes which were sold out included those awarded for such classics as .How Green Was My Valley. and .Wuthering Heights., reported Xinhua.The statuettes, each 34 cm tall and weighing 3.85 kg, were bestowed upon the moviemakers of winning films and works before 1950, when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences reached an agreement with winners which bars them and their heirs from selling the statuettes without first offering to sell them back...
- 2/29/2012
- Filmicafe
Why did British TV comedy director Ben Wheatley decide to make a feature length film? Because he couldn’t be “bothered” to make a short one. “I said to my agent, ‘I want to do some drama,’” Wheatley recalls. “And he just went, ‘You can’t, they’re not going to let you. You have to go and make a short.’ I thought, ‘I can’t be bothered.’ Because it’s such a lot of effort and money. I thought, if I’ve got to make something off my own back, I’ll make a feature.”
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- 10/15/2010
- by Clark Collis
- EW.com - PopWatch
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