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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 7:33 PM

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Release date for Bone in the Throat MUST BE CHANGED!!!

Hello,

The director for the film Bone in the Throat, Graham Henman, is having a difficult time getting another round of buyers for his film because they are seeing "Released in 2015" on the IMDb page. The film was merely exhibited at South By Southwest, it was not released! This must be changed!
Since 2015, the film has been totally refurbished, complete with all new sound and mix. Graham spent considerable time and money re-finishing the film to perfection, and it is now ready to go back on the market, but this "released" status on IMDb is totally hampering Graham's ability to sell the film in its new state. We have submitted multiple contributions officially through the website in attempt to get this information redacted. I understand that a showing at a film festival counts as a "release" in the IMDb world, but it shouldn't. We need this attribute to be erased as it does not count as an official release. That showing at South By was only to attract buyers at the time. Nearly ten years have now passed, the film is re-finished, and it must attract a new round of buyers.

This has been an extraordinarily frustrating process as we have been getting automated robots to respond to our requests, all of which have been denied, either on counts of the information provided not being "verifiable," or "not meeting submission guidelines" which we were sure to follow to a T.

WE NEED A HUMAN BEING ON THIS ASAP!

Thanks,
Clement Mattox, Sound Supervisor, Sugar Studios LA

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3 months ago

Hi @clementsounddesign,

Thank you for your problem report.

I can see that you have made multiple contributions to remove this release date information, and we appreciate the frustrating additional context you have provided in your latter attempts. However, as indicated by your submissions being declined by our processing team, the removal of this data is not permitted.

This is because per IMDb's guidelines, the screening of the above title at a film festival indicates the film has been officially released, which you have referenced above. This is IMDb's policy in regards to release dates, which will not be altered for any such use case. Furthermore, the release date information has been verified as factually accurate, which also prohibits its removal from IMDb.

Thank you for your understanding.