Modern Hollywood Icons
Blockbuster-era props and memorabilia ignite bidding across generations.
by cinematographer Dean Cundey, $64,000.
The Contemporary Hollywood sale on December 11–12, 2025, featured 650 lots of artwork, costumes, props, scripts, and pieces from classics from the 1970s to today, including modern blockbusters, boundary-pushers, and visionary auteurs. Several major private collections were also offered.
Collecting Hollywood memorabilia is a dynamic hobby, popular with fans who want to own items that let them relive the visceral thrills of their favorite films and TV shows.
While there are dedicated collectors for Golden Age artifacts, contemporary titles often resonate more with bidders, as reflected in the fact that the top overall lots for the four days came from this auction: shirts of the two main characters in Brokeback Mountain and a production-used clapperboard from Jurassic Park, which sold for $64,000 each. Both lots smashed their high estimates of $35,000 and $5,000, respectively.
The entwined shirts of star-crossed lovers Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake
Gyllenhaal) are shown in the final scene of Brokeback Mountain (Focus Features, 2005) and have become symbols of the lasting cultural legacy and impact the movie has had.
The clapperboard from Jurassic Park (Universal Pictures, 1993) was personally owned and signed by multiple award-winning American cinematographer and film director Dean Cundey, who was the director of photography on such blockbuster films as Back to the Future, Halloween, Jurassic Park, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and many more. Cundey opened his personal archives for the first time to share memorabilia from these signature films with fans.
Bidders clamored for two other production-used clapperboards from Cundey’s archives and also pushed them far above estimates: a clapperboard from Escape from New York (Universal Pictures, 1993) fetched $28,800 against a high estimate of $5,000, and one from Back to the Future III (Universal Pictures, 1990) brought $22,400 versus its high estimate of $3,000.
Additional items from his collection included a ghost eye mask worn by Rob Bottin in The Fog (Debra Hill Productions, 1980), which brought $7,680, and an original production script, schedule, and storyboard copies used during the production of Jurassic Park, which sold for $6,400.
24 1/2 in. x 18 1/2 in. x 1 1/4 in., $25,600.
Other top-selling memorabilia included the original Colt 1860 revolver that Clint Eastwood brandishes in The Outlaw Josey Wales (Warner Bros., 1976), which brought $38,400—over 19 times its high estimate of $2,000; a framed gold record prop for Drive Shaft’s “You All Everybody” from an episode in the first season of the TV show, Lost (ABC, 2004-2010), which sold for $25,600 against a high estimate of $800; a cast-signed replica leather vest from The Warriors (Paramount, 1979), which achieved $22,400—nearly 25 times its $900 high estimate; and two black-and-white zig-zag linoleum panels that sold for $16,000 each and were used as part of the floor of the otherworldly and sinister Black Lodge in David Lynch and Mark Frost’s groundbreaking television series, Twin Peaks (ABC, 1990-1991).
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