Their song "So Cold" off of their second album We Are Not Alone was used in a promotional video for the movie Hellboy.
"I Will Not Bow" off of their fourth album Dear Agony was used in the movie Surrogates.
Two of their songs were also used in Video Games. "Firefly" off of We are Not Alone was used in "Smackdown vs Raw and the band wrote a single for the Halo 2 soundtrack titled "Blow Me Away"
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Talking Heads songs have been in a lot of films, so there a lot of examples that I'm sure I'll be missing. The song debuted in the 1986 film "True Stories" which featured 9 original songs by Talking Heads and was directed by the band's frontman David Byrne. Wild Wild Life is featured in one of the opening scenes at a karaoke night bar. The song was also covered reggae-style in the Disney film "Cool Runnings."
No but the RZA does use samples from old kung-fu movies in his songs