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Can movies never made and never released have AKAs in other countries?
It's my understanding, based on common sense, that they can't. But perhaps IMDb has its own rules on this?
I'm looking at Alfred Hitchcock's so-called Number 13 and Kaleidoscope.
The former was never finished (only 2 reels shot) and never released (and all footage lost). The working title was Mrs. Peabody. Hitch merely referred to it in interviews as the 13th film he worked on, "number 13". IMO that shouldn't be the hard (original) title; it should be changed to "Mrs. Peabody". But there are Romania, Spain, and Venezuela titles, translations into Romanian and Spanish of "number 13"!
I tried to delete these AKAs, and list Number 13 as "fake working title" (the closest description I could find), but my submissions were all declined: 230628-192401-854000.
Mrs. Peabody is already listed as a "working title". Should I submit a change of the hard (original) title to that?
Kaleidoscope was a movie that was never made at all. No footage was ever shot. Yet it has a Spanish translation AKA for Venezuela. So I deleted that, but it was declined: 230628-195852-454000.
All declines were flagged as "Needs Attention" and the reason "Does not meet contribution guidelines".





Bethanny
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2 years ago
Hi @Mvybuf -
We do not delete an AKA title for a country where the title was not released because the definition of the AKA is 'how it's primarily known', it is not necessary for a title to be released in a country for it to be known by the people in it as a certain name. I hope this answers your question.
Thanks!
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