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IMDb Should Have a Better Poster Policy
Currently, the rules are:
The most iconic and widely-recognized poster, of the best image quality. English language posters are preferred if available, although we may exercise editorial discretion to override this in some special cases.
I suggest instead we display, when possible, one of the original release posters of the film. So we could avoid having such atrocities:
À bout de souffle: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053472/reference
Poster: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053472/mediaviewer/rm3074093057/
Tonio_Fraga
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8 months ago
Atrocities like that get corrected usually. Still, I totally agree with the point you make. I'm sick and tired of these so-called "studio partners" that lock certain movies with very dubious, sometimes rightdown negligent, even atrocious primary images.
What I'd propose is this: use the same rule that applies to the NOIR genre. This genre can only be applied to movies released between 1927 and 1958:
https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/genres/GZDRMS6R742JRGAG#
Of course, many contemporary movies would kill to use the NOIR label to add prestige to their pedigree, but IMDb puts their foot down.
Consequently, I would apply a similar rule to primary images, but I'd use 1990 (the year IMDb was founded) as the upper limit.
Under this rule, no "studio partner" would be allow to lock the primary image of any title released before 1990.
And even for movies from that date forward, they could only do it in movies that the "studio partner" actually released in the first place, not movies the "studio partner" acquired from the original releasing entity, usually after bankrupcy sales and such.
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Marco
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8 months ago
I agree this guide should be changed. I think the primary image for a title should be the first official poster (obviously in as good as possible quality), regardless of the language it was in.
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