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A strange data moratorium on Black Box?

Specifically, the feature film, Black Box: Flight 298.

In addition to adding some keywords and other items without issue, I added the subgenre alien-invasion-sci-fi (#260709-173752-978000), which was approved. Spoilers: To a small degree this film has elements that are reminiscent of past sci-fi releases such as The Faculty, Body Snatchers, etc., with whiffs of Millennium (insofar as the switcheroo happens at altitude) and perhaps even the classic episode from The Twilight Zone, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. Among others. To my surprise, a subsequent genre update was rejected (#260709-173834-072000). I say surprise because accepting one of the two aforementioned updates and rejecting the other is difficult to square.

Moving on, I began correcting half the cast order, some character names, and some attributes. The following updates were rejected:

#260709-185444-333000

#260709-190048-538000

#260709-190802-566000

However, the following correction from around the same time was approved:

#260709-191146-362000

I re-enter genre with a few links for proof (many others are available), and once again the update was rejected (#260711-170207-094000). As mentioned, that's tough to square given the the film that I watched and the approved subgenre.

I then re-entered the cast updates with concrete evidence, and once again the updates were rejected:

#260711-171221-247000

#260711-171541-003000

#260711-171718-496000

However, the following correction was approved without evidence, but I'll concede it's obvious why it was approved:

#260712-184330-556000

Almost immediately afterward, the cast list mysteriously settled into the order I updated along with the corrected fields, as if done manually/internally.

All in all a strange experience tidying up some data for this film, as though the title has been flagged internally for some reason and list managers are walking on eggshells around it.

[Edited for formatting.]

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2 hours ago

Hi carter_hayes-

Thank you for posting the references! After reviewing, the cast corrections were mixed. There were processing errors which have been reported. However, also along the way, there were other submissions for the same credit corrections submitted by other users and this is why the credits appeared corrected already. 

As per the genre, this has been re-submitted and the changes will be live on the site shortly.

Cheers!