You Won't Believe How Much These Famous Movie Props Sold For

Serena Williams' Broken Racket

When Serena Williams let her emotions show over a bad (really bad) call by an umpire in the 2018 US Open final, she smashed her racket. Williams later lost the match, due to the bad call, but her racket entered the auction circuit, and it fetched a hefty price...

Letting It All Out

This racket was originally valued at $25,000 to $50,000, but after a series of unsuccessful bids, the racket went for $20,910. Still, that's a huge amount of money for a broken piece of plastic.

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The More You Know

  • The bridge blown up by Eli Wallach and Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was prematurely detonated by a Spanish Army Captain. Upon learning of his mistake the Captain ordered his troops to rebuild the bridge, only for it to suffer another explosion once complete.
  • The Postman, Costner’s second jaunt to a post-apocalyptic world, holds the 8th spot on the biggest flops losing $62m.
  • Fantasia (1940) was originally a short called The Sorcerers Apprentice, but Walt Disney overspent on the score and decided to make it feature length film rather than waste money.
  • There’s a 20 year age gap between Sam Neill and Laura Dern in Jurassic Park, with Laura aged only 26 during filming.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.