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Associated Press
3 days ago
- Business
- Associated Press
Judge Doom's Sword Cane from 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' Cuts Its Way into Propstore Auction
Weapon from Christopher Lloyd's Villain Expected to Fetch $10,000–$20,000 in auction this month. 'This sword cane embodies the dark, theatrical presence of Judge Doom and is one of the most recognizable villain props of the era.'— Brandon Alinger, COO, Propstore LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, June 4, 2025 / / -- A rare piece of 1980s cinematic history is headed to auction this spring as Propstore presents Judge Doom's (Christopher Lloyd) sword cane from the 1988 groundbreaking live-action/animated hybrid 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' (1988). Bidding for this lot—and over 400 additional items from Planet Hollywood's legendary archive—is live until June 11, 2025. Registration is now open at Judge Doom's menacing cane, which doubled as a hidden sword in the film's climactic showdown, is one of the most memorable props from director Robert Zemeckis' award-winning film. Crafted in two parts, the cane includes a solid black metal sheath and a sword with a silver-painted snake grip and skull pommel. The sword's dulled blade was production-altered for on-set safety, and the piece shows light wear from filming, including chipped paint and blade discoloration—hallmarks of its authenticity. '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.' The film won 22 major awards, including three Academy Awards, and remains a landmark in special effects and storytelling. This iconic prop is estimated to sell for between $10,000 and $20,000. 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit was a groundbreaking technical achievement and a genre-defying hit,' said Brandon Alinger, COO of Propstore. 'This sword cane embodies the dark, theatrical presence of Judge Doom and is one of the most recognizable villain props of the era.' This auction presents a rare opportunity for collectors to acquire authentic pieces of film history, many of which once adorned the beloved walls of Planet Hollywood's restaurants, at accessible starting bids, with many items opening at just $100. Online bidding is currently underway and will remain open through June 11, 2025, 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.
The Guardian
19-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Doctor Who: Lux – season two episode two recap
Doctor Who is not the only television programme that could have an episode revolving around a cartoon character being brought to life and escaping the screen, while also hitting beats about the loss of a spouse, the loss of a child and racial segregation laws in 1950s America, plus mind-bendingly meta fourth-wall breaks about the impact and future of the show itself, but there aren't that many of them. This was an adventure where Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu spent nearly all of their on-screen time together, as Belinda got to grips with accompanying the Doctor on his travels. The highs – getting to dress up in a posh frock – were levelled by the lows: being on the receiving end of racist police treatment for entering a segregated theatre. Linus Roache put in an affecting bit-part turn as Reginald Pye, the man who, exposed to the power of Mr Ring-a-Ding, trapped himself in the cinema as the only means of reliving precious moments with his late wife. His zeal for setting fire to old film canisters at the end might have been quite stressful for veteran Doctor Who fans who still lament the BBC's failure to preserve similar cans containing nearly 100 missing episodes from the 1960s. The show has tacitly acknowledged its own fandom before, by effectively putting Ingrid Oliver's Osgood character on screen in Doctor Who cosplay, but the extended fourth-wall break in Lux took it to another level. It was a scene that managed to move the plot on, and act as showrunner Russell T Davies' love letter to what Doctor Who has meant to so many people over so many decades. If there were any weaknesses, then Belinda could surely have run up those cinema steps faster when the Doctor was seemingly being dragged to his doom, and the resolution, as is often the case in this era, was a little hand-wavey. However, in its own way that was also quite moving, as Mr Ring-a-Ding grew into an 'Ugly Sonic' version of the character, and then transcended space and time in a setup reminiscent of the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey What if Doctor Who was like Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, with the audience also in it … Maybe we overestimated the idea that the relationship between Belinda and the Doctor was going to be spikier than last year's instant friendship between Gatwa and Millie Gibson's Ruby Sunday. By the time they'd escaped being trapped as animations, these two were firmly in best buddy territory. This may be a factor of only having eight episodes a season instead of 13. The show doesn't seem to have the space for a slow-burn build of trust these days. Don't make him laugh. Frankly, there may have been slightly too much revealed about Mr-Ring-A-Ding in the advance publicity, but him suddenly reprising the vocal motif of the Stooky Bill doll from 60th anniversary special The Giggle had at least been held back, and it was a genuinely jaw-dropping moment. Alan Cumming's voice work trod a fine line between him being a malevolent godlike antagonist, and simply a fun-loving cartoon guy that had come alive by chance and just wanted to see the wider world beyond the auditorium, even if it did mean trapping people on celluloid along the way. We can be in no doubt that the show has veered far away from hard sci-fi and into the broadest of fantasy territories, as the Doctor faces a pantheon of gods that transcend the universe. Which god will he face next? And, right on cue, there was dear old Anita Dobson as Mrs Flood again, who had somehow also got herself to 1950s Miami in time for the denouement of the episode. We can expect to see a lot more of her … During the final season of classic Doctor Who, 1989's flawed, baffling but brilliant Ghost Light featured a character who was also an eternal godlike being called Light. Played by John Hallam, he was attempting to catalogue all life on Earth, and getting incredibly frustrated about it selfishly insisting on evolving In extended media the Doctor has visited an entire cartoon world. Steve Lyon's 2002 novel The Crooked World featured a cartoon Eighth Doctor on the cover and parodies of properties including Scooby Doo, Tom and Jerry and the Road Runner The Doctor calls Belinda Fred, and she calls him Velma, after the characters in Scooby Doo. Fred was also what the fourth Doctor threatened to call Romana when he deemed her full name – Romanadvoratrelundar – was too unwieldy to use in 1978's The Ribos Operation When the fans were telling the Doctor that the sound of the Tardis brings hope, they were echoing the words Billie Piper said to John Hurt's War Doctor in the 50th anniversary special, when as The Moment she told him: 'You know that sound the Tardis makes? That wheezing groaning? That sound brings hope. Wherever it goes. To anyone who hears it, Doctor, anyone, however lost' Glass half-full ratings person? Last week's The Robot Revolution was the second-most watched show on BBC One on Saturday. Glass half-empty? The overnight 2m viewing figure was lower than any episode in the previous season Questioned after the premiere screening for the season, Sethu said Lux was the episode she was most looking forward to people seeing, endearingly describing it as her 'yellow dress moment' Rose Ayling-Ellis! Ncuti Gatwa doing British Sign Language! In an episode that Russell T Davies has described as terrifying! We'll see you next week down The Well. Season 2 Episode 1: The Robot Revolution Episode 2: Lux Episode 3: The Well Episode 4: Lucky Day Episode 5: The Story and The Engine Episode 6: The Interstellar Song Contest Episode 7: Wish World Episode 8: The Reality War Season 1 Episodes 1 & 2: Space Babies / The Devil's Chord Episode 3: Boom Episode 4: 73 Yards Episode 5: Dot and Bubble Episode 6: Rogue Episode 7: The Legend of Ruby Sunday Episode 8: Empire of Death Christmas special: Joy to the World 60th anniversary specials Special 1: The Star BeastSpecial 2: Wild Blue YonderSpecial 3: The GiggleChristmas special: The Church on Ruby Road Flux / Series 13 Chapter one: The Halloween ApocalypseChapter two: War of the SontaransChapter three: Once, Upon TimeChapter four: Village of the AngelsChapter five: Survivors of the FluxChapter six: The VanquishersNew Year's Special: Eve of the DaleksSpring special: Legend of the Sea DevilsBBC centenary special: The Power of the Doctor Series 12 Episode 1: Spyfall part oneEpisode 2: Spyfall part twoEpisode 3: Orphan 55Episode 4: Nikola Tesla's Night of TerrorEpisode 5: Fugitive of the JudoonEpisode 6: PraxeusEpisode 7: Can You Hear Me?Episode 8: The Haunting of Villa DiodatiEpisode 9: Ascension of the CybermenEpisode 10: The Timeless ChildrenNew Year's special: Revolution of the Daleks Series 11 Episode 1: The Woman Who Fell to EarthEpisode 2: The Ghost MonumentEpisode 3: RosaEpisode 4: Arachnids in the UKEpisode 5: The Tsuangra CondundrumEpisode 6: Demons of the PunjabEpisode 7: Kerblam!Episode 8: The WitchfindersEpisode 9: It Takes You AwayEpisode 10: The Battle of Ranskoor Av KolosNew Year's special: Resolution Series 10 Episode 1: The PilotEpisode 2: SmileEpisode 3: Thin IceEpisode 4: Knock KnockEpisode 5: OxygenEpisode 6: ExtremisEpisode 7: The Pyramid at the End of the WorldEpisode 8: The Lie of the LandEpisode 9: Empress of MarsEpisode 10: The Eaters of LightEpisode 11: World Enough and TimeEpisode 12: The Doctor Falls2017 Christmas special: Twice Upon A Time Series 9 Episode 1: The Magician's ApprenticeEpisode 2: The Witch's FamiliarEpisode 3: Under The LakeEpisode 4: Before The FloodEpisode 5: The Girl Who DiedEpisode 6: The Woman Who LivedEpisode 7: The Zygon InvasionEpisode 8: The Zygon InversionEpisode 9: Sleep No MoreEpisode 10: Face The RavenEpisode 11: Heaven SentEpisode 12: Hell Bent2015 Christmas special: The Husbands of River Song2016 Christmas special: The Return of Doctor Mysterio Series 8 Episode 1: Deep BreathEpisode 2: Into The DalekEpisode 3: Robot of SherwoodEpisode 4: ListenEpisode 5: Time HeistEpisode 6: The CaretakerEpisode 7: Kill The MoonEpisode 8: Mummy on the Orient ExpressEpisode 9: FlatlineEpisode 10: In the Forest of the NightEpisode 11: Dark WaterEpisode 12: Death In Heaven2014 Christmas special: Last Christmas Series 7 Episode 1: Asylum of the DaleksEpisode 2: Dinosaurs on a SpaceshipEpisode 3: A Town Called MercyEpisode 4: The Power of ThreeEpisode 5: The Angels Take Manhatten2012 Christmas special: The SnowmenEpisode 6: The Bells of Saint JohnEpisode 7: The Rings of AkhatenEpisode 8: Cold WarEpisode 9: HideEpisode 10: Journey to the Centre of the TardisEpisode 11: The Crimson HorrorEpisode 12: Nightmare in SilverEpisode 13: The Name of the Doctor50th Anniversary special: The Day of the Doctor2013 Christmas special: The Time of the Doctor Series 6 Episode 1: The Impossible AstronautEpisode 2: Day of the MoonEpisode 3: The Curse of the Black SpotEpisode 4: The Doctor's WifeEpisode 5: The Rebel FleshEpisode 6: The Almost PeopleEpisode 7: A Good Man Goes To WarEpisode 8: Let's Kill HitlerEpisode 9: Night TerrorsEpisode 10: The Girl Who WaitedEpisode 11: The God ComplexEpisode 12: Closing TimeEpisode 13: The Wedding of River Song2011 Christmas special: The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe Series 5 Episode 1: The Eleventh HourEpisode 2: The Beast BelowEpisode 3: Victory of the DaleksEpisode 4: The Time of AngelsEpisode 5: Flesh and StoneEpisode 6: The Vampires of VeniceEpisode 7: Amy's ChoiceEpisode 8: The Hungry EarthEpisode 9: Cold BloodEpisode 10: Vincent and the DoctorEpisode 11: The LodgerEpisode 12: The Pandorica OpensEpisode 13: The Big Bang2010 Christmas special: A Christmas Carol
