I just started watching a feature film on Prime that I'd never heard of before - "Five Corners", from 1987, starring Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins and John Turturro. I was surprised to hear "In My Life" by The Beatles soundtracking the opening scene. I don't think I've heard other Beatles originals on soundtracks of feature films. Have there been any others? This film was produced by George Harrison's Handmade Films, which I suppose explains how permission was granted to use the song?
Unless you have a film print or non-American VHS release of Billion Dollar Brain, you're not gonna get the very brief scene where A Hard Day's Night was palyed.
Withnail and I - UK film (1987) distribution by Handmade Films* "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"* * The film features a rare appearance of an Original recording by The Beatles, whose 1968 song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" plays as Withnail and Marwood return to London and find Presuming Ed in the bath. The song, which was written and sung by George Harrison, was included in the film soundtrack due to Harrison's involvement in the film as one of the producers.
Hope my memory isn't failing, but many many years a go I saw a movie, can't remember the title, on TV and - "And I love her" was playing. If it was a cover, it must've been the best group of impersonators ever.
It has to be very expensive to license real Beatles songs. Cover versions are much more cost effective. As to the use of "Twist and Shout" in Ferris Beuller's Day Off, that was only a Beatles performance of a song written by someone else. Much cheaper.
There was a Lassie movie in the ’90s that used “In My Life” pretty prominently. If I recall correctly, a vinyl copy of Rubber Soul figured into the plot, as it belonged to the main (human) character’s deceased mother.
The Music Never Stopped includes a portion of The Beatles' original recording of "All You Need Is Love", which figures in the plot of the movie.
The 2019 Beatles-obsessed film Yesterday obviously includes a ton of cover versions, but I'd forgotten until I rewatched it recently that the end credits roll to the Beatles' original "Hey Jude" recording. Another similarly obvious one perhaps is, the end credits to the 1987 comedy Can't Buy Me Love roll to the original Beatles recording of that title song.
This movie is the poster child for this thread. I would think having this many Beatles songs in a movie today would send the budget into the billions.
