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Change a movie poster? (part 2)

Hi,

I see that my old post has been closed, but it's not solved at all, see third link. The 2001 Maniac posters still looks like crap. And I'm still annoyed by the fact that you can not choose your own poster. For example, the poster of Man's Best Friend is real ugly.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264323/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107504/

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/change-a-movie-poster/6177c620cd6ade3bf41ba33f?page=1

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3 years ago

Hi@Navin2000-

My apologies for the delayed reply, IMDb staff is working through a backlog of older missed threads.

Are you still seeing instances where primary posters are being changed against our guidelines? If so, can you post some recent examples here for IMDb staff to investigate?

By the way, my apologies to Michelle, I hope she still works for IMDB? This was her last response to me, but I haven't logged in for months so I didn't see this post.

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3 years ago

Hello Navin2000,

If you have observed titles listed on the site that are not displaying the most iconic poster for the film, I encourage you to request a new primary poster through our Report form. 

For detailed instructions on how to change the primary poster I encourage you to review our Help Guide (look under the "Modifying an existing primary poster" section).  Once a new primary is requested our editors will take a look.

Cheers!

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@Fran​ 

Thanks, but what's not clear to me is, why do these posters change out of the blue, who is doing this? Like I said, the 2001 Maniacs poster has had the same crappy poster for months, with some weird foreign language. And now I see that somehow Pandorum's poster has also been changed? And Man's Best Friend should also get another poster, see second link.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1188729/

https://www.scifi-movies.com/en/poster/0001499/2/man-s-best-friend-1993/

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3 years ago

The poster for ”Man's Best Friend” could be the original one (which should be the most important factor). At least that’s the one I remember. It isn’t ”ugly” to me, just old school.

Of course some newer DVD/Blu-ray/re-release covers and poster could be more ”modern”. But I always prefer the original ones.

”The 2001 Maniac” should be changed. It’s not the original and the poster is non-English.

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@eboy​ 

Thanks for the support. And yes, the one from Man's Best Friend could be the original one, but that's why I asked for a new feature on IMDB that you could choose your own movie-poster when logged in. It's especially handy when you made a movielist like me, see link 1. I just hate those ugly looking posters, like the one from The Invisible Man, see link 2.

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls046424878/?st_dt=&mode=grid&page=1&ref_=ttls_vw_grd&sort=list_order,asc

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1051906/

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Thanks about this tip. Can you also make a favorite movies list on Ranker?

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3 years ago

Here is another one with a crappy poster, there are way better ones for Pumpkinhead, see second and third link. Come on IMDB, you are better than this. Give us an option to change posters. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095925/

https://horror.fandom.com/wiki/Pumpkinhead_(1988)

https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/pumpkinhead

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@Navin2000​ Please follow instructions given by @Fran to change the poster.

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@Bethanny​ 

That's weird, is the quote function broken or what? But anyway, my question is why can't IMDB employees change the movieposter once this has been reported? For example, the 2001 Maniacs poster has been the wrong one for at least a year, and nobody cares. I do see that someone changed the poster for The Invisible Man, which looks way better now. I have no idea if it's the original one though, but I also don't really care, to me it's about looks.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264323/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1051906/

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@Sandy​ 

Yes correct, it may or may not be the original poster. I just think it sucks, that's all.

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@Navin2000​ We encourage our users to go through our contribution form, community forums and customer service are usually here for matters in which the user can't contribute themselves, that is the reason we are instructing you on how to do it.

Thanks for understanding!

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3 years ago

Hi,

I have taken a look at the instructions, but I don't see all of these options to change a movie poster, this really shouldn't be this hard.

But anyway, there seems to be something wrong with the poster from the Shut In (2022) movie and 2001 Maniacs's poster still hasn't been fixed, seems like you guys just don't care.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10131024/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264323/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shut_In_(2022_film)

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I made an English poster the primary for "2001 Maniacs"

@Bethanny I wanted to make this primary for Shut In: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10131024/mediaviewer/rm401278721

But it says: "The existing primary has been provided by a studio partner and is not editable."

So this should be handled by staff.

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Hello mbmb

I have applied the change, the modifications will be live on the site shortly!

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@mbmb​ 

Thanks a lot to you and Fran for fixing these posters! I really think this process should be made way simpler, I couldn't figure out how to report this stuff.

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@mbmb​ 

BTW, is it possible for you to also change the poster from the movie The Babysitter's Seduction? The current one is quite ugly, I prefer this one:

https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-babysitters-seduction

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112437/

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@Navin2000​ Hi! Would you mind linking the image that would look better? Is it already part of our gallery?

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@Bethanny​ 

Hi, the poster is already part of the photo gallery, didn't even notice this, see link. I guess this makes it easy for you to change it, right? Awesome stuff, thanks in advance!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112437/mediaviewer/rm2549359873?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_pos_87

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@Navin2000​Yes!

Change made.

Cheers!

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@Bethanny​ 

OMG, thanks a lot! It looks so much better, and it's a quite a good movie too. ;)

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@Bethanny​ 

Hi,

It's me again and I have another request. I believe that Frailty (2001) should get another poster (second link), haven't got a clue who keeps changing these things, so annoying! The current poster doesn't really look that good, and isn't even the original one, if I'm correct.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264616/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264616/mediaviewer/rm3391985664?

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@Navin2000​ Hi! Please send this requests in by clicking the pencil below the image and suggesting it as new primary image.

Thanks!

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@Bethanny​ 

Hi,

Thanks, didn't know about this feature, I have now done so!