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PROducers need to stay alert about the status of their movies here on IMDb

The Art of Christmas (tt16938382) premieres tonight on Great American Family but it is still classified as "IN DEVELOPMENT."  https://www.greatamericanfamily.com/movie/the-art-of-christmas/  ZAP2it: The Art of Christmas (2022) PREMIERE 7:00 PM ON GFAMHD 1529 • TV-G • STEREO • CC After her latest gallery exhibition literally goes up in flames, struggling artist Liv James accepts a teaching job at a local elementary school to make ends meet.

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@Hallmarkie  It appears the title you are seeking is actually this one -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21935558/  The in-development title appears to be a different film with different writers. Hope this helps. 

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@Col_Needham​ Aha! Since I'm not a PRO member (why I wrote PROducers 😉), that information wasn't visible to me when I searched on the title, so thank you for pointing me in the right direction. My initial search produced what appears in one of the attached images. The "invisible" one, i.e., the entry lacking substantive data visible to non-PRO users, appeared first in the list of results. So, is it any surprise that I never made it past the 3 false positives to see the result I sought? (The image that appears here is larger than what appears on the screen.)  It gets even worse (instead of better, as one might expect) if one "limits" the search to Titles. https://www.imdb.com/find?s=tt&q=The+Art+of+Christmas&ref_=nv_sr_sm  The one of no interest found first before is now found 6th in a list of (count 'em) 25 results with "More popular matches ˅" available.  Executing a Find (Control-F) on the page for "The Art of Christmas" finds 4 results, the 4th of which is found as the label of the "wrong" title under "Recently viewed" (image below). The label under the correct title does not appear in the results of the find (again, see image). Is that because the label says only "Art of Christmas" instead of "The Art of Christmas," unlike in the image of the cover above it and unlike the title on the presenter's web page and in today's TV listings?  So, since per your reply these are two entirely different movies with the same title, but with different actors and crew, this is not simply a case of the fourth new Christmas movie this season with duplicate/extraneous entries I've found in the IMDb database (no Shorts involved). The other day I submitted the following response to https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/discover-watch/why-is-the-same-title-listed-twice-on-imdb/GR33YXUEDU3EP53Y?ref_=helpsrall# (or someplace like it):  "I have found duplicate data base entries for new Christmas movies in IMDb, none a short developed into a movie but rather entries for the exact same movie, within the last few weeks. tt22750252 is a duplicate of tt14460090 (Contribution 221202-043423-759000; Declined: Does not meet contribution guidelines.) tt23903180 is a duplicate of tt23873758 (Contribution 221205-055601-411000; Declined: Does not meet contribution guidelines.) tt22750320 is a duplicate of tt20220954 (Submitting now. I was about to submit this under a different category from the previous two, but this is the first time I was taken here.) "Your process for contributors to notify you of duplicate (i.e., extraneous) entries is quite obtuse, so if *this* isn't it, I don't know what is." Maybe this is how and where I should have come in the first place to notify of duplicate entries for the exact same title/movie/whatever???  Sincerely, "Hal" Hallmarkie   

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Hi, Hallmarkie​. Thanks for reaching out. You wrote,"Since I'm not a PRO member (why I wrote PROducers 😉), that information wasn't visible to me when I searched on the title, so thank you for pointing me in the right direction." That may be true, but once you access the title page, it indicates right up at the very top that the movie is in the "in development" status.

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@Hallmarkie​  It looks like the title has been edited so the search results are better. While I can't see what you submitted regarding the duplicate titles, something looks wrong to me. Duplicates can be reported with a title correction, but that doesn't usually get a tracking status. How can I merge two titles? It would be a good idea to start a new post here if you don't succeed.

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@Hallmarkie​ As @Peter_pbn notes, the title has now been corrected so the search result issue is also fixed.   tt22750252 is a duplicate of tt14460090 (Contribution 221202-043423-759000; Declined: Does not meet contribution guidelines.)tt23903180 is a duplicate of tt23873758 (Contribution 221205-055601-411000; Declined: Does not meet contribution guidelines.)tt22750320 is a duplicate of tt20220954 (Submitting now. I was about to submit this under a different category from the previous two, but this is the first time I was taken here.) These have been resubmitted correctly for you now and will be processed within the next few days.  Please see the link Peter provided for details of how to merge titles in future.