.SonyATVMusicPub hopes yesterdaymovie appeals to tomorrow's thebeatles fans YesterdayMovie
The publishing company licensed a record 17 songs for Danny Boyle's romantic fantasyopens in theaters Friday , Sony/ATV Music Publishing, which handles the Beatles catalog, hopes the music resonates with the listeners of today.
"Any chance that we get to take a catalog like that and put it back in the marketplace in a different way is great for the songwriters," Monaco says. "You don’t always see those opportunities come across your desk.” ’s concept. The filmmakers had the run of the Beatles canon. “The catalog was open and they had an idea of ‘This is the group [of songs] that we’re thinking of using and we’ll come back to you as we’re going through the process,’” Monaco says. “We opened it up and said, ‘We’re in. We want to be part of this project.”
In fact, the Beatles are so revered within the halls of Sony/ATV that a special Beatles committee convenes to discuss opportunities. “Everything comes through me globally and I sit down and call meetings and we talk about which [opportunities] we want to do.” If the request is for more than two songs, Sony/ATV usually brings in Apple Corps, the corporation that oversees the Beatles’ business dealings, “to make sure we’re not running down a path that they’d be totally against,” Monaco says.
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