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TIL the most expensive movie poster ever sold at auction was from the 1927 lost film London After Midnight. The winning bid ($478k) was by Metallica’s guitarist Kirk Hammett. The poster is displayed in his collection at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum for all to appreciate

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