Replacement movie scores
Discussion
I have occasionally chanced upon well known, big budget movies on TV and felt something was a bit amiss......then realised the score through the entire film has been swapped for something similar but not original. Two that spring immediately to mind were Gladiator and True Lies, but there were others (Terminator 2?).
Has anyone else noticed this, and can anyone, perhaps in the industry, explain why? I presume its rights, and perhaps it is cheaper showing a movie that way, and perhaps these were channels buriedd deep down the schedules. However it still seems to be an awful lot of trouble to go to on the kind of ancient blockbuster movie everyone has seen 20 times minimum. Are music rights so much more expensive than actors rights, does the former get paid once and the latter ad infinitum? I'm confused.
It proved to me how crucial the music is to a movie anyway. They were unwatchable.
Has anyone else noticed this, and can anyone, perhaps in the industry, explain why? I presume its rights, and perhaps it is cheaper showing a movie that way, and perhaps these were channels buriedd deep down the schedules. However it still seems to be an awful lot of trouble to go to on the kind of ancient blockbuster movie everyone has seen 20 times minimum. Are music rights so much more expensive than actors rights, does the former get paid once and the latter ad infinitum? I'm confused.
It proved to me how crucial the music is to a movie anyway. They were unwatchable.
Yes, it's down to issues with rights clearance for the music:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/arts/television...
When many TV shows & films were made the music rights weren't secured for long periods or multiple distribution platforms as it was a considerable extra cost but now there is a huge need for programme content to fill all the channels. The rights are even more expensive now & there can be a lots of pieces of music in a show so it's cheaper to re-edit the soundtrack to use cleared cheap music.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/arts/television...
When many TV shows & films were made the music rights weren't secured for long periods or multiple distribution platforms as it was a considerable extra cost but now there is a huge need for programme content to fill all the channels. The rights are even more expensive now & there can be a lots of pieces of music in a show so it's cheaper to re-edit the soundtrack to use cleared cheap music.
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