U2 could retire on the money it’s made simply from licensing songs to movie trailers and TV spots MGM recently paid U2 $500,000 to use “It’s a Beautiful Day” in the trailers and TV spots for its current film “Bandits,” and Universal paid $400,000 to use the band’s “One” in trailer and TV spots for “Family Man” last year. Metallica got $1 million for providing a new song for the “Mission Impossible 2" soundtrack. There are still filmmakers who genuinely collaborate with musicians, as Paul Thomas Anderson did with Aimee Mann on “Magnolia” and Cameron Crowe did with his favorite Seattle bands on “Singles.”īut all too often soundtracks are treated like an extension of the film’s advertising campaign-just listen to the soundtracks of recent hits like “American Pie 2" and “Rush Hour 2" that feature second-rate leftovers from rock and hip-hop artists whose youth appeal is exploited to help the films attract all-important teen moviegoers. Over the past decade the soundtrack business has become a profit center where musical artistry is often overshadowed by corporate marketing and branding. That’s not how it works in the brave new world of movie soundtracks. “I was so naive writing the script that I thought, ‘Oh, this is wonderful, I’ll get 12 Beatles songs and we’ll just have them run through the movie.”’
What Nelson never realized, though, was what a herculean task it would be to get permission to use the songs in her movie. “When we were writing a scene where he held his baby daughter in his arms, we thought, what character from a Beatles song would be appropriate for her name? Should it be Julia? Prudence? Lucy? As a writer, it’s pretty inspiring to spend a lot of time with the Beatles, because they’re such brilliant writers.” “Whenever Sean’s character was at a turning point in his life, he would think of the Beatles,” Nelson says. “I Am Sam” has a multitude of references to the Beatles, most notably in a dramatic courtroom speech in which Penn compares his relationship with his daughter to the way John Lennon and Paul McCartney needed each other as songwriters. “I’d say, ‘Today we’ll do ‘The White Album.’ Tomorrow we’ll do ‘Rubber Soul.”’ During filming, Nelson played Beatles music on the set to keep it in her actors’ heads. Nelson read a stack of Beatles biographies and listened to the band while writing the script. Nelson and her writing partner, Kristine Johnson, were so struck by the way the Goal residents connected to the Beatles that they made this fascination with the band a leitmotif in their film.
When a woman had problems with her roommate, she’d say, ‘Well, John and Paul had problems too.’ The whole public nature of the Beatles’ journey through life had become very important to them.” “They looked to Beatles songs as touchstones for their own lives. “They were always talking about the Beatles songs they loved,” Nelson recalls. It didn’t take long for Nelson to notice something the center’s residents had in common: Nearly everybody was a huge Beatles fan. Goal center for people with disabilities in Culver City. Before Jessie Nelson began work on “I Am Sam,” a wrenching drama due at Christmas that stars Sean Penn as a mentally handicapped father battling to keep custody of his 7-year-old daughter, the writer-director spent several months at the L.A.
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