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Why do movies change music or scenes after theatrical release?

I was wondering if anyone knew why movies change things in between theatrical release and release to dvd?

For example: I went and saw the movie Center Stage the first day it was out (YEARS ago) and remember this slightly touching conversation on a ferry. I bought the dvd and that entire conversation had been cut out. it was weird.

Or when I saw the movie House Bunny. I saw it after a few weeks it had been out in theaters and the scene where the girls are getting a make over, the song "When I Grow Up" by the Pussycat Dolls was playing (I remember because I can't stand that song). Well I just watched it on cable and some Avril Lavigne song played and there was zero Pussycat Dolls.

Basically my question is: why is it that these things are changed? I mean, obviously the studios already made money--why change them?

Thanks!

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  • crispy
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Because, when they use a song in a movie, they have to pay a royalty to the artist. Sometimes the DVD rights to a song are prohibitively expensive, so they replace the music with something that is easier and cheaper to get the rights to.

  • Jeffy.
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    They don't change anything.

    The films are made like they want and the DVD's are made like they want.

    One has nothing to do with the other. They are 2 separate kinds of media

    DVD's are made at the same time the film is.

  • 1 decade ago

    never really noticed

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