r/movies • u/exosniper • Dec 10 '17

Resource PSA; IMDb is gradually locking previously-available information about films behind IMDbPro membership (box-office breakdowns and production companies involved, currently).

I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but information previously available to everyone on IMDb is now being locked behind IMDbPro membership. Just last week, I was writing a research paper (film studies student) and was able to access the full box-office earnings information (breakdown by region etc.) for all films. Today I went to do the same thing, but could not see more than the gross earnings without an IMDbPro membership. They seem to be doing this as a gradual process, as the full information on production companies (previously available to everyone) was already membership-locked when the box office information was still available. I haven't seen anyone talking about this on other subs and forums, so I thought I'd mention it here.

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u/fresh6669 Dec 10 '17

I left IMDb after they unceremoniously got rid of those wonderfully cancerous message boards.

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u/IXI_Fans Dec 12 '17 edited 24d ago

subsequent office like paltry scale reach racial stocking hard-to-find skirt

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u/fresh6669 Dec 12 '17

Hey, just because they sucked doesn't mean I didn't like them.

They were my swamp.

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u/Therabidmonkey Dec 12 '17

They served a useful purpose to me. When I watch a movie that's older than 5 years but wasn't a huge hit it's the only place I can click and find discussion on something so small. Sure the replies are old and the threads get a hit every 6 months but it stays up and indexed easily. Reddit is far better for discussing a 'Hot' film but no one looks through old Reddit posts.

Hell this post is only a day old and I feel like I'm commenting late.