2015 indie film “Eden”, directed by Mia Hansen-Love, will feature a plethora of electronic music from the '90s. Why? Because the movie is about the French boom of electronica in the '90s!
If you've only recently connected yourself with the scene, you might not be super excited to reminisce to the sounds of Frankie Knuckles or Joe Smooth, but you're surely familiar with one of the headliners featured 4 times on the film's soundtrack: Daft Punk. Before you read the rest of the story, check out the short cinematic trailer:
It can be extraordinarily difficult to produce an independent movie about music. Purchasing the right to embed the songs gets to be too expensive. 1999's Varsity Blues shelled out a reported $500,000 to use AC/DC's “Thunderstruck”.
The TV show Mad Men spent $250,000 to feature The Beatles‘ “Tomorrow Never Knows”. According to investopedia.com, a commercial licensing deal will usually cost between $75,000 and $200,000.
So, when Mia Hansen-Love dialed up the guys from Daft Punk, what was their asking price for not 1, not 2, but 4 major '90s hits? One outlet, Hollywoodreporter.com, estimated the licence value of the songs in the neighborhood of $1,000,000.
Mia Hansen-Love paid a sparse, €3000 each; translating to roughly $15,027. The director secured herself the rights to use “Da Funk”, “One More Time”, “Within”, and “Veridis Quo”.
You can listen to the full soundtrack here:
