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Associated Press
5 days ago
- Business
- Associated Press
Rare 'Free Willy' Orca Model Among 400+ Planet Hollywood Memorabilia Items in Upcoming Propstore Auction
Planet Hollywood props resurface with 'Free Willy' orca leading the wave. 'This orca core is a rare behind-the-scenes piece from Free Willy, created by effects supervisor Walt Conti and his team.'— Brandon Alinger, COO of Propstore LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, May 29, 2025 / / -- A rare orca model from the beloved 1993 family classic 'Free Willy' is making waves in Propstore 's upcoming auction of more than 400 iconic memorabilia items from the archives of Planet Hollywood. Created by renowned whale effects supervisor Walt Conti and his team, the foam rubber miniature core was used in scenes featuring the film's hero whale, Willy, making it a standout piece for film fans and collectors alike. The highly anticipated online auction, running now through June 11, 2025, features items that once adorned the walls of Planet Hollywood's famed restaurants. Many of these pieces have been out of public view for decades and are now up for grabs, with bidding starting as low as $100—an accessible entry point for new and seasoned collectors. 'As the founder of Planet Hollywood, I've had the privilege of curating one of the most iconic collections of movie memorabilia in the world—pieces that celebrate the films that made us laugh, cry, and fall in love with cinema,' said Robert Earl, Founder of Planet Hollywood. 'Whether you're just beginning your journey as a collector, or looking to add something truly unique to an already impressive archive, this auction offers an incredible opportunity. This specific offering was designed to be surprisingly accessible, making them perfect for the passionate fan or the seasoned collector alike.' Featuring hand-marked notes like 'No Zip' and 'No Zipper,' along with red tape and a protruding metal rod, the 44-inch-long model (112 cm) showcases the craftsmanship that brought the heartwarming story of Jesse and Willy to life. This behind-the-scenes treasure highlights the mix of practical effects and animatronics that defined the pre-digital era of filmmaking. 'This orca core is a rare behind-the-scenes piece from Free Willy, created by effects supervisor Walt Conti and his team. Used beneath more detailed outer skins, it served as part of the film's practical animatronic work,' said Brandon Alinger, COO of Propstore. 'Items like this were never meant for display and rarely survive, making their preservation through the Planet Hollywood archives especially significant.' This auction offers collectors a rare and affordable opportunity to own a piece of cinematic history. Online bidding will take place until June 11, 2025, and registration is open now at # # # Notes to Editors: For further information, catalogue images, case studies and interviews please contact: Bethany Willetts | [email protected] Bidding is live until June 11, 2025, at: Dropbox link to images: Please credit: Propstore About Propstore In 1998, Propstore founder Stephen Lane's love for movies led him to hunt for the same props and costumes used to create his favorite films. He found that he could provide collectors with access to their most coveted pieces and establish archival standards for this new, pop-culture hybrid of fine art and memorabilia collecting—prop art. Since 2014, Propstore has regularly hosted live auctions featuring some of the world's greatest Entertainment Memorabilia treasures. Propstore specializes in film and television props and costumes, production materials, and artwork, as well as music memorabilia, posters, and collectible toys. Propstore also holds regular online auctions in association with many of the industry's major production materials and has over 5,000 items available for sale via Buy Now on Following our 2020 Queen's Award for Enterprise in International Trade, Propstore was thrilled to receive the honor again in 2024, this time as the prestigious King's Award for Enterprise. Widely regarded as the highest accolade for business success in the UK, the King's Award for Enterprise recognizes British companies that have excelled in innovation, international trade, sustainable development, and promoting opportunity through social mobility. Social Media: Facebook: @PropStore Twitter: @propstore_com Instagram/ Threads: prop_store YouTube: thepropstore TikTok: @.propstore Matthew Kovacs Propstore email us here Visit us on social media: LinkedIn Instagram Facebook YouTube TikTok X Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content 'as is' without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above.
Daily Mail
7 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
Jennifer Lopez makes major career announcement... after kissing a woman on stage at AMAs
After hosting the American Music Awards on Monday, Jennifer Lopez announced her new 12-date Up All Night Live in Las Vegas residency to be staged at Caesars Palace's The Colosseum. 'Surprise JLovers!' the 55-year-old pop diva — who boasts 386.4M social media followers — wrote on Instagram. 'We're back!' Jennifer doesn't kick off the series of Nevada concerts until December 30, but presale tickets begin as early as June 2 while general tickets go on sale June 6. Lopez's prior Las Vegas residency - All I Have at Planet Hollywood's Zappos Theater - reportedly grossed $101.9M and ran for 121 shows spanning 2016 to 2018. The two-time Grammy nominee's announcement came nearly one year after she was 'completely heartsick and devastated' to cancel her 30-date This is Me... Live: The Greatest Hits tour. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop Jennifer explained via her On the Jlo newsletter that she was 'taking time off to be with her children, family, and close friends.' At the time, Lopez was facing backlash stemming from burnout over her self-funded, This Is Me... Now vanity projects including an album, movie, and documentary. Lopez - who gets 30.4M monthly listeners on Spotify - will kick off her 18-date Up All Night: Live in 2025 Tour on July 4 at Rixos Radamis in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. 'I like being close to home. It's convenient for me in that way instead of touring the whole world,' the Emmy-nominated producer told Variety of her new Vegas residency. 'I canceled my tour last year, so I've been thinking a lot about performing and how I wanted to get back out there. 'I'm doing a small tour in the summer because I haven't gone international and then it was like, "Do you want to go on tour or do you want to do a residency?" 'And I was like, "You know what? I think I'll just do a residency."' Jennifer wants to ' stay close' to her 17-year-old fraternal twins - Maximilian Muñiz and Emme Muñiz - from her seven-year marriage to ex-husband number three Marc Anthony, which ended in 2011. 'Even when I go [on tour] this summer, they're going to be away from me and you know, I like being home,' Lopez explained. Lopez's announcement came nearly one year after she was 'completely heartsick and devastated' to cancel her 30-date This is Me... Live: The Greatest Hits tour amid low ticket sales The Atlas producer-star - who's played a bride in nine films - recently produced and starred in Ol Parker's rom-com Office Romance for Netflix opposite Ted Lasso alum Brett Goldstein. Last month, Deadline reported that Jennifer signed on to play a con artist who targets a wealthy couple in Robert Zemeckis' big-screen adaptation of Liv Constantine's 2018 novel The Last Mrs. Parrish, which will also stream on Netflix. Lopez took on three different characters - Leni Lamaison, Marta, and Spider Woman - in Bill Condon's $30M-budget musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, which hits US theaters October 10. The Kamala Harris campaigner's fourth ex-husband Ben Affleck produced the big-screen version of the 1992 West End musical co-starring Tonatiuh and Diego Luna. Jennifer and the 52-year-old Oscar winner's divorce was officially finalized on February 20. The couple formerly known as 'Bennifer' still need to sell their $68M 12-bedroom, 24-bathroom megamansion in Beverly Hills aka Crestview Manor, which they originally paid $60.85M for in May 2023.
New York Post
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Hilaria Baldwin loves to complain about the harsh spotlight of fame—even as she flogs her reality show and silly new memoir
Hilaria Baldwin is a mom of seven, a wife to Alec Baldwin, a limber yogi and a fake Spaniard. Now, with the release of her latest book, she's a two-time author — and an all-time attention hog. Part memoir, part self-help, but mostly self-pitying, 'Manual Not Included' is the book that no one asked for. And it acts as a companion to 'The Baldwins,' the TLC reality show that no one watched. That's a lot of spotlight for a couple who really just want to be left alone. Advertisement In between writing about her adventures in breast-feeding and how she moved away from 'gentle parenting,' Hilaria moans about the media's red-hot pursuit of the endlessly fascinating couple. 6 Hilaria Baldwin and husband Alec Baldwin at the opening of Planet Hollywood Times Square. WireImage The one-time 'Extra' correspondent claims to be completely unmoved by the idea of fame. Advertisement She benevolently writes in the intro how she doesn't 'blame those who gossip; I feel for them, because they are a product of a system that most of us play into. We fear that if we question the system, we will get hurt and be ostracized.' When she's not complaining about the intrusion into her privacy — while simultaneously begging us to come in — she's dropping inanities that made me wonder if Kamala Harris was her ghostwriter. 6 Hilaria Baldwin's new book, 'Manual Not Included,' is part memoir, part self-help and mostly self-pitying. 'I think there is a tendency for humans to reject the old and think that our contemporary world is the most evolved. It is probably why we constantly strive to grow and invent and change,' Hilaria writes in reference to nothing in particular. 'How humbling it is to think that we all just exist in a moment in time and what is ours and new will soon become old.' Advertisement Speaking of old, she writes about her 90something grandfather, who was a veteran. And straight. But 'he had one flag flying outside his home — the LGBTQIA+ flag. He wanted all to know that everyone was welcome and that straight men didn't have to be so insecure about their own sexuality.' Sure, lady. Then, there's the love story with her 26-years-older husband which, she claims, got her pegged as a gold digger. 6 Alec and Hilaria Baldwin in a scene from their TLC reality show, 'The Baldwins,' which reportedly drew ratings below the network's average viewership. TLC Advertisement 'No matter who dated Alec Baldwin, she was going to be picked apart,' she writes. But Hilaria was not picked apart. Doors were opened for her. She was given a gig with 'Extra' and regular appearances on morning and daytime TV. During which, no one even questioned her 'Spanish' background. People simply took her word for it. If anything, she was treated well and — as she loves to point out — as a good influence on her notoriously irascible husband. 6 Welcoming reality cameras into their home, Alec and Hilaria Baldwin talk with four of their kids. TLC The tide only turned in 2020, when a Twitter user revealed the truth: She wasn't Hilaria desde España. She was Hillary from Boston. The book finally explains it all. She has ADHD and dyslexia, you see, which accounts for her bizarre Spanish-ish accented English. 'Labels such as multicultural, multilingual, third-culture kids, culturally fluid, are attempts to capture what it is to belong and not to belong in a world that just wants to put every one in one simple box,' Hilaria writes. 'We often gravitate toward one another. We sound different because we naturally code switch between different languages and mannerisms.' Then, my favorite line of the book: 'I had a crash course in how some monolingual people really struggle with how I speak.' Advertisement 6 During this 'Today' cooking segment, Hilaria Baldwin claimed to forget the English word for cucumber. NBC Yes, the poor slobs who speak only one language are simply unable to grasp the singular gifts and enigmatic brain of the ever-versatile Hilaria. Perhaps this unique 'code switching' of which she writes skipped my bilingual family and all the others I grew up with. But thankfully, we don't know her pain. 'I've always wondered what it would be like to just belong,' she writes wistfully. 'My father called me once when I was going through a particularly hard time and said, 'I'm sorry I brought you up in such a complicated way.''She seems to forget that her well-deserved public ridicule stems from the fact that her own husband told David Letterman 'my wife is from Spain' — and at every turn, she's perpetuated this vague Iberian origin story to obscure the fact that she's a boring ol' Yankee. Advertisement She can't back out of the lie, so she's keeps offering absolute nonsense. Hoping the monolingual morons will think it's them, not her. 6 Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed during an accidental shooting by Alec Baldwin on the set of 'Rust.' Courtesy of Disney And what would a Hilaria Baldwin tell-all be without a dive into her family's side of the horrific accidental 'Rust' shooting that left cinematographer Halyna Hutchins dead — and her continued reminders that her husband suffered too, physically and mentally. 'The tabloid media will likely create headlines from this chapter,' she writes. 'It's what they do. But I ask that we all have the decency to look beyond the headlines and remember what happened — someone died.' Advertisement Indeed, this did catch my eye. Because she's used it as fodder to film a reality show and write a self-serving book. And her constant public picking at scabs does no good for anyone's healing. Hilaria claims to not need anyone's approval, but begs for it at every turn.
New York Post
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Surprise! NYC's new Planet Hollywood restaurant has shockingly good food
It's a shocking twist: The new Planet Hollywood has really good food. The celeb-magnet eatery opened its third NYC iteration two months ago at 136 W. 42nd St., on a corporate block that's nothing like Times Square around the corner. After friends reported having tacky, processed-tasting snacks at an opening party, I was ready to laugh my head off over menu oddities like 'L.A. Lasagna,' an 'icon' from the original Planet that opened on West 57th Street in prehistoric 1991. 6 When Planet Hollywood 3.0 opened earlier this year, no one expected it would have legitimately good food. EMMY PARK Instead, I felt almost embarrassed to enjoy it — and other dishes vastly better than the ones from Planet's early years, when it was a culinary joke, notwithstanding the backing of Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Demi Moore. The second Planet at 1540 Broadway closed in 2020. When I first reported in 2022 that founder Robert Earl planned another re-launch, he told me it would be 'more complex and more appealing to New York locals as well as tourists.' We'll see about that. They might be surprised to find that the three-level, 17,500 square-foot venue which cost almost $20 million to build, is almost entirely without the film posters, costumes and other memorabilia that were the main draw at he original Planet Hollywood and version 2.0. The colorful, second-floor dining room and third-floor event space have lots of booths, five-pointed stars attached to the ceiling and lampshade-like overhead lights. Video images of Dua Lipa and Daniel Craig's James Bond randomly alternate with outer-space cartoons and (for no clear reason) pumping oil derricks on screens all around the rooms. The place has drawn bevies of boldfaces, including Alec Baldwin, 50 Cent and Whoopi Goldberg on opening night and cast parties for Broadway's 'Moulin Rouge' and '& Juliet.' But celebs will eat anything when it's free, and the last thing I expected was better-than-decent food. 6 The new spot has limited movie memorabilia but screens aplenty. EMMY PARK It might not rank with nearby Michelin-starred Gabriel Kreuther and fancy steakhouse STK, of course. The more useful comparison is with the area's tourist-jammed venues such as Hard Rock Cafe and Bubba Gump Shrimp. Planet's menu blows them away. There's no identified kitchen mastermind, but Earl wanted to make people forgot the dreary fare of Planets past. He tapped unnamed local chefs to oversee the menu and sources quality ingredients, including meat from butcher-to-the-stars Pat La Frieda. They restaurants delivers what you want from 'fun' food — crispy, crackling mouth feel and sugar-loaded condiments that don't overwhelm the underlying flavors. I have a weakness for this style if it's done with integrity, and the kitchen nails it. 6 'Fun food,' like cheesy garlic bread, is well prepared and satisfying. EMMY PARK 6 A blackened shrimp appetizer was fresh and flavorful. EMMY PARK Cheesy garlic bread ($15) on ciabatta is a mini-pizza with rich marinara sauce, a staple which the house employs well on many dishes. A half-dozen blackened shrimp ($21) — fresh-tasting, marinated and seared with tangy Creole mustard — made me forget the usually wretched bar snack. Baby gem caesar salad ($16) using crisp leaves, Parmesan flakes and toasted croutons was worthy of a classy steakhouse. 6 The salmon entree was cooked to perfection. EMMY PARK Even after such good starters, I had little faith that sesame ginger salmon ($33) would be grilled medium-rare as I ordered it. But the filet arrived perfectly pink under crisp skin, and elevated to serious enjoyment by soy, ginger and sesame glaze. I could take or leave the humdrum chicken pot pie ($23), but the 8-ounce deluxe Wagyu burger ($28) more than redeemed it. The monster needed knife and fork to navigate the (again) properly medium-rare patty, bacon slices, pickles, tomatoes, onions, fried egg, avocado and ranch coleslaw on a toasted brioche bun. 6 The awkwardly named and oddly plate 'L.A. Lasagna' tasted great. EMMY PARK The biggest shock was that L.A. Lasagne ($26). It had no evident Los Angeles influence, nor did it resemble any lasagne I've ever known. But they can call it what they want. Four crispy, parmesan-breaded pasta tubes were filled with ricotta and bolognese-style meat sauce, and served in tangy tomato sauce. Delicious. It's the sort of sinful, guilty pleasure many crave after a night of clubbing, but works just as well at lunch. I hope the folks who work in the great office towers all around the place will forget Planet's old reputation and give its food a chance.
Newsweek
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Demi Moore Speaks Out on Ex Bruce Willis Amid Dementia Journey
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Demi Moore made a rare comment on her ex-husband Bruce Willis since his dementia diagnosis. The Context The actor's family publicly shared his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis in 2023 after previously revealing in March 2022 that he had been diagnosed with aphasia. Aphasia is a disorder that affects how you communicate, including speech, as well as the way one writes and understands both spoken and written language, according to the Mayo Clinic. In their 2023 statement, the Willis family wrote: "Since we announced Bruce's diagnosis of aphasia in spring 2022, Bruce's condition has progressed and we now have a more specific diagnosis: frontotemporal dementia (known as FTD). Unfortunately, challenges with communication are just one symptom of the disease Bruce faces. While this is painful, it is a relief to finally have a clear diagnosis." They added that FTD "is a cruel disease" that "can strike anyone." Demi Moore and Bruce Willis pose for a portrait at the opening of Planet Hollywood at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota on December 12, 1993. Demi Moore and Bruce Willis pose for a portrait at the opening of Planet Hollywood at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota on December 12, 1993. Jim Steinfeldt/MichaelWhat To Know In an interview with People, which was published on Tuesday, Moore, 62, was asked, "What are you most grateful for when it comes to your relationship with Bruce?" In response, The Substance star said, "That regardless of what the outside relationship has been, we have maintained being a family in various forms. The foundation of making our children our priority has never wavered." Newsweek reached out to Moore's representative via email for comment. She added that she's "most grateful" for "my family, including my four-legged family, my children and all of the incredible, loving people in my life. I feel really so lucky." Moore and Willis share three daughters together—Rumer, 36, Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 31. Willis, 70, is a Golden Globe Award winner best known for his role as John McClane in the Die Hard franchise. He also appeared in such famous films as The Sixth Sense, Pulp Fiction and Armageddon. What People Are Saying In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour in December 2024, Moore shared an update on Willis. "Given the givens, he's in a very stable place at the moment. And, you know, I've shared this before, but I really mean this so sincerely: It's so important for anybody who's dealing with this to really meet them where they're at. And from that place, there is such loving and joy." She continued, "I mean, obviously, it's very difficult, and it's not what I would wish upon anyone, and there is great loss, but there is also great beauty." In February, Rumer Willis spoke out about her father on the U.K. talk show Loose Women. "He's doing great," she said. Moore and Willis divorced in 2000 after nearly 13 years of marriage, but their daughter, who is also an actress, said she has always admired their coparenting. "The thing I'm most grateful for is that even when they split up, they created such a beautiful foundation of prioritizing my sisters and I, that I never felt like I had to choose—they never played against each other," Rumer Willis said. "We were a family, and we still are very much a family no matter what."
