Item donated by a director who was given it in 1984 as it was about to be thrown out by film studio becomes second most ...

The prop, famously revealed to be 'Rosebud' in the final scene of Citizen Kane, was almost thrown in the bin until it was ...

Items from movies including Castaway, Star Wars, The Spy Who Loved Me and ET have gone under the hammer for eye watering ...

A prop central to the celebrated opening scene of Citizen Kane - widely regarded as one of the best films ever made - has ...

Rosebud,” the famed wooden sled at the heart of Orson Welles’ classic 1941 movie “Citizen Kane,” has sold at auction for ...

The previous owner was director Joe Dante, who “had the honor of protecting this piece of cinematic history for decades.” ...

Years ago, I was in a large lecture hall taking a class on film history. Appropriately enough, one of the first films we ...

The Rosebud sled from “Citizen Kane” went for a staggering $14.75 million this month, making it one of the priciest props in movie history.

To be fair, Citizen Kane doesn’t head every greatest films list. Last year, it stalled at number 33 in Empire magazine’s readers’ poll (number one was The Empire Strikes Back). And, at the ...

Long regarded as a masterpiece, is Orson Welles’s classic film finally losing its lustre, asks Matthew Sweet, ahead of his new Radio 4 documentary on the subject ...

At that point it was highly unusual for actors to direct or vice-versa, yet Welles was starring in, directing and writing Citizen Kane, and when the film was released on May 1, 1941, his multi ...