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This Hitchcock Star Wars Mashup Is A Must Watch! Darth by Darthwest

Darth by Darthwest Is A Clever Star Wars/Hitchcock Mashup I am constantly amazed at how talented the Star Wars fan community is.  Especially when it comes to fan movies or more specifically in this case, a mashup fan movie.  Talented, Fabrice Mathieu sent us his video which consists of a mashup of Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1959 thriller, North by Northwest and of course Star Wars. It really is a must watch as we see the iconic scene with Cary Grant being chased not by a bi-plane but instead a deadly Tie-Fighter!  Look out for C3PO, BB-8, Jabba's palace and the Millennium Falcon in this seamless coming together of two classic movies.  Fabrice had this to say about the project: "The original scene of "North by Northwest" lasts more than ten minutes. I cut half of it for "Darth by Darthwest"! I used Photoshop, After Effects and Final Cut for the special effects, the editing and the new sound design. For the music, it was very interesting to mi...

Soundtrack News - INTRADA Announces DIAL M FOR MURDER Kickstarter Campaign

DIAL M FOR MURDER - KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN Music Composed by DIMITRI TIOMKIN Conducted by WILLIAM T. STROMBERG Alfred Hitchcock's decade-spanning career involved many top composers, resulting in some of the finest film music composed for the cinema. Many recordings of the earlier works haven't survived, making it impossible to enjoy them outside of their films. Intrada is embarking on a mission to record some of these scores, and you are instrumental in making this happen. The initial recording is composer Dimitri Tiomkin's final collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock, the 1954 thriller Dial M for Murder. Intrada chose this title because of Tiomkin's striking score. It accentuates an elegant thriller and features the knock-out star power of Ray Milland, Robert Cummings, John Williams and Grace Kelly (her first of four productions with Hitchcock, and whose introduction to the director was facilitated by Tiomkin). Your support for this recording not only helps make this...