batman89 said:

Watched an old John Candy movie from 1991 and was surprised to see the entire opening sequence set to Delirious. Didn't think Prince was into allowing song rights to be used in movies.

The Equalizer, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, PS I Love you, Rush Hour 3, Happy Feet, Get Rich or Die tryin, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Bamboozled, Down in the Delta, Scream 2, Romeo+Juliet, Striptease, Girl 6, Waiting to Exhale, Showgirls, Blankman, PCU, Poetic Justice, Innocent Blood, The Last Boy Scout, Without you I'm nothing, Pretty Woman, My Stepmother is an Alien, Big Lights, Big City, Fire with Fire, Band of the Hand, Krush Groove, The Slugger's wife, Risky Business, Still Smokin', Summer Lovers.

Polo1026 said:

batman89 said:

Watched an old John Candy movie from 1991 and was surprised to see the entire opening sequence set to Delirious. Didn't think Prince was into allowing song rights to be used in movies.

The Equalizer, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, PS I Love you, Rush Hour 3, Happy Feet, Get Rich or Die tryin, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Bamboozled, Down in the Delta, Scream 2, Romeo+Juliet, Striptease, Girl 6, Waiting to Exhale, Showgirls, Blankman, PCU, Poetic Justice, Innocent Blood, The Last Boy Scout, Without you I'm nothing, Pretty Woman, My Stepmother is an Alien, Big Lights, Big City, Fire with Fire, Band of the Hand, Krush Groove, The Slugger's wife, Risky Business, Still Smokin', Summer Lovers.

What Prince songs are in those films I bolded?

With Pretty Woman you're referring to that scene where JR is singing Kiss in the bathtub? Does that count? Probably yes coz I think you get royalties for that.

Waiting to Exhale - "Head" was played in a club scene.

midnightmover said:

Polo1026 said:

The Equalizer, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, PS I Love you, Rush Hour 3, Happy Feet, Get Rich or Die tryin, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Bamboozled, Down in the Delta, Scream 2, Romeo+Juliet, Striptease, Girl 6, Waiting to Exhale, Showgirls, Blankman, PCU, Poetic Justice, Innocent Blood, The Last Boy Scout, Without you I'm nothing, Pretty Woman, My Stepmother is an Alien, Big Lights, Big City, Fire with Fire, Band of the Hand, Krush Groove, The Slugger's wife, Risky Business, Still Smokin', Summer Lovers.

What Prince songs are in those films I bolded?

With Pretty Woman you're referring to that scene where JR is singing Kiss in the bathtub? Does that count? Probably yes coz I think you get royalties for that.

From my memory, in My Stepmother Is An Alien it's the Tom Jones version of "Kiss". Not sure about the others without searching.

There´s a Cheech and Chong movie where they go to Amsterdam. The original version had Delirious in one scene. They changed that scene when they re-released that movie and replaced Delirious with a similar sounding, non-Prince song named Twisted.

Se7en said:

midnightmover said:

What Prince songs are in those films I bolded?

With Pretty Woman you're referring to that scene where JR is singing Kiss in the bathtub? Does that count? Probably yes coz I think you get royalties for that.

From my memory, in My Stepmother Is An Alien it's the Tom Jones version of "Kiss". Not sure about the others without searching.

If it's not Prince singing and playing then I don't really count it. P's bank account does though.

Polo1026 said:

metallicjigolo said:

Polo1026 said:

The Equalizer, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, PS I Love you, Rush Hour 3, Happy Feet, Get Rich or Die tryin, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Bamboozled, Down in the Delta, Scream 2, Romeo+Juliet, Striptease, Girl 6, Waiting to Exhale, Showgirls, Blankman, PCU, Poetic Justice, Innocent Blood, The Last Boy Scout, Without you I'm nothing, Pretty Woman, My Stepmother is an Alien, Big Lights, Big City, Fire with Fire, Band of the Hand, Krush Groove, The Slugger's wife, Risky Business, Still Smokin', Summer Lovers.

Dont forget Hot Dog the movie. (when u were mine) 😂

And Risky Business, DMSR (one of the earliest if not the earliest) (I see it's there, just wanted to mention tha wonderful DMSR).

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KoolEaze said:

batman89 said:

Watched an old John Candy movie from 1991 and was surprised to see the entire opening sequence set to Delirious. Didn't think Prince was into allowing song rights to be used in movies.

Prince had no say, it was WB's prerogative to licence the tracks. Several other Prince songs were used in movies at the time, Nasty Girl in Beverly Hills Cop and IIWYG in Strip Tease come to mind but there were others.

Wierd Science - Private Joy.

machinegun said:

Wierd Science - Private Joy.

It's a cover, it's a bit different (same in fact with Kiss in Pretty Woman).

midnightmover said:

Polo1026 said:

The Equalizer, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, PS I Love you, Rush Hour 3, Happy Feet, Get Rich or Die tryin, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Bamboozled, Down in the Delta, Scream 2, Romeo+Juliet, Striptease, Girl 6, Waiting to Exhale, Showgirls, Blankman, PCU, Poetic Justice, Innocent Blood, The Last Boy Scout, Without you I'm nothing, Pretty Woman, My Stepmother is an Alien, Big Lights, Big City, Fire with Fire, Band of the Hand, Krush Groove, The Slugger's wife, Risky Business, Still Smokin', Summer Lovers.

What Prince songs are in those films I bolded?

With Pretty Woman you're referring to that scene where JR is singing Kiss in the bathtub? Does that count? Probably yes coz I think you get royalties for that.

TLC covered "Get It Up" for the Poetic Justice *movie and soundtrack*

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Prospect said:

midnightmover said:

What Prince songs are in those films I bolded?

With Pretty Woman you're referring to that scene where JR is singing Kiss in the bathtub? Does that count? Probably yes coz I think you get royalties for that.

TLC covered "Get It Up" for the Poetic Justice.

Yeah but same, it's a cover. The OP was about allowing recordings to be featured in films. By definition Prince can accept or decline to licence the masters he owns (IDK the current status of the WB deal regarding their exclusive distribution rights, but all the NPG Records and Paisley Park stuff he owns at least) but he couldn't/can't have a say when it comes to recording owned by WB before 2014, as well as songs whose masters are owned by other labels (covers or songs given to others artists).

It was interesting when Kevin Smith said he asked P if he could use The Bird -or was it Jungle Love?- (WB owned) and Prince said "sure", and then he asked if he could use TMBGITW (owned by Prince) and Prince said "nope".

Prince most likely knew that anyway if Smith would check it out and bypass P's permission he could licence The Bird from WB, while P had every right with TMBGITW.

Another interesting anecdote is that the studio asked permission from Prince to cover Kiss for Happy Feet, Prince said he wanted to see the movie rushes first and he liked it so much he said "OK" and offered to give an additional track. Asking him was sheer courtesy (and that's pretty remarkable), since covering a song is not somehting u need permission to do.

not much early 80's movies had released soundtracks with the Prince songs.

Risky Business - DMSR

National Lampoons Vacation - Drive Me Wild