The world’s cutest alien from Steven Spielberg’s basic sci-fi movie “E.T.” fetched $2.6 million at an public sale.
The unique animatronic mannequin was offered as a part of a two-day mega-sale placed on by Julien’s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies that included over 1,300 props starting from Robert DeNiro’s “Raging Bull” boxing gloves to Chris Hemsworth’s “Thor” hammer.
But the best ticket merchandise was the extra-friendly extra-terrestrial, whose glowing finger and childlike innocence melted hearts in 1982, earlier than the age of ubiquitous computer-generated imagery.
With 85 mechanical joints, almost every thing strikes on the E.T. mannequin, from the eyes, to the neck, and naturally that pointy finger that was held aloft because the alien knowledgeable his new pal Elliott that he needed to “phone home.”
A maquette of E.T. additionally offered for $125,000, whereas one of many bikes used within the movie’s climatic getaway scene went for $115,000.
Other film memorabilia offered on the Beverly Hills public sale included the employees that Charlton Heston used to half the Red Sea in “The Ten Commandments” – which went for $448,000 – and Daniel Radcliffe’s Nimbus 2000 broomstick from the Harry Potter movie collection, which fetched $128,000.
