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Thursday, September 12th, 2024 12:45 PM

IMDb Redesigns Parents Guide

IMDb Redesigns Parents Guide

We are excited to announce the launch of IMDb’s redesigned Parent Guide subpages on IMDb.com! (Note: There have been no changes to the apps at this time) The updated pages are meant to make your IMDb experience easier and more enjoyable by providing a modern, clean and intuitive presentation of information. The newly update pages still have consistent features to view and add content and vote for the severity of each section. Additionally, at the top of every page we have included a Content Rating section, which gives you an overview of the severity of each category, as voted for by IMDb users. If you are viewing the site in English, the Content Rating section also includes the official Motion Picture Rating (MPA). The full list of certificate ratings for each country can now be found at the bottom of the page. These enhancements reflect changes suggested by IMDb customers, as well as our own in-depth research designed to enhance entertainment content, discovery, and navigation.

We hope you enjoy these latest improvements, and thank you for continuing to make IMDb the world’s most trusted source for movie, TV, and entertainment content. As always we welcome your feedback – please feel free to post your questions and comments to this thread.

— The IMDb Team

 

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I obtained two sets of MPAA/MPA list recently. One predominantly of the older videos, the other more of more recent videos, which I have merged and was working on verifying the numbers with what IMDb had. There is some conflict between the two lists. Have been working on verifying the list numbers with my videos, and discovered that IMDb has changed their "Motion Picture Rating (MPA)" sub page and no longer includes the MPAA/MPA catalog number. Seems to have happened around midnight between 11 and 12 September2024,  American Eastern Time Zone. As well as what the ones I have actually show in the credits. Does anyone here have any input with IMDb, I do not really mind their new format, though I would really appreciate if they brought back the MPAA/MPA catalog number since of the almost 56K MPAA/MPA cataloged titles I only have about 9K titles of which less than half do not have MPAA/MPA catalog numbers. Though my library does keep growing.
Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled "Motion Picture Rating (MPA)" sub page no longer includes the MPAA/MPA catalog number

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Hi @shano0059,

Thanks for flagging this issue.

We were aware that the new page format lost the MPA certifcate number. We are currently working to resolve this, and will update this thread once we have an update.

Cheers!

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This will probably be the first of many messages, as I progress though my two main projects of finalizing My MPAA/MPA Catalog Number list and boxing up my library, for a hopeful move, due to finding that almost $500.00 worth of disk had disappeared from my library while I was in the hospital for an operation and the house I share with other relatives was fully occupied by them, who ever did it took the time to shift what they did not take to cover up the large gaps that would have contained my Dumbo, Dune, Toy Story and Tower of Terror titles. Of which 7 were Steel Case 4K/BR's.
At the moment of 202409120951, Shark Tail does not have the Catalog Number (041134 End Credits).
May I suggest that under or behind the "Motion Picture Rating (MPA)  Rated" you could put the Catalog Number, or with the United States Ratings. I have come across that other countries appear to also have catalog numbers for videos made in their countries, which would make the Catalog Numbers more appropriate for being listed with each countries rating areas. At least in my opinion.
Thank you for this attention, and action on this matter.
Well, for now tell later, have fun, someone needs to.
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@shano0059This issue was fixed in the update last week. Thanks again for the problem report.

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Up until a few days ago (around 09-12-24), under the "storyline" section, if you clicked on the "Motion Picture Rating MPAA", there would be some detail including what the MPAA number was for films they had rated. Now, that link takes you to the same place the justification for the rating takes you when you click on it. Did the MPAA number move to another location, or is it no longer being provided? It looks like the link on older films has been changed as well, so it appears that it is a system-wide change...

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled MPAA numbers

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@nightcoaster​ Please see the above reply from @Ozzy this is a known issue and we are working on a fix.  Sorry for the inconvenience in the meantime. 

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@nightcoaster​ This issue was fixed in the update last week. Thanks again for the problem report. 

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3 months ago

Hello everyone,

Our team has completed some internal fixes and relaunched the updated Parents Guide experience. The issues listed previously regarding MPA certificates have now been corrected.


Please let us know if you experience any other problems and we will be happy to assist.

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2 months ago

The attributes on certificates on the new site have been placed in such a manner which presents a number of issues, for example anything listed as ‘cut’ or having been passed in an ‘edited version’ is now listed as a re-release for example which is misleading and inaccurate, I would request the attributes attached to certificates be placed in line with how they were formatted previously? So that they match what the user tagged them with …

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@JosephIngham2003 Thanks for your feedback. There has been no intentional change to the certificate attributes, we should still be displaying what is contributed and store in our systems Could you please provide some examples where you are seeing this, so that I can investigate? Thanks 

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@Dominic

Hi, Yes

Go onto the site for ANY physical page across IMDB where something has a tag denoting that something was ‘cut’ or passed in an, ‘edited version’ and this problem persists into all information throughout

However I will link a few visual examples below such as:

Infinity Pool (2023):

Original Attribute:

Canada: R (Alberta), Canada: 18A (Alberta) (edited version), Canada: R (British Columbia), Canada: 18A (British Columbia) (edited version)

Now:

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@Domanic

Bigil (2019)

Original:

Singapore: PG13 (edited version)

United Kingdom: 12A (cut)

United Kingdom: 15 (uncut version)

Now:

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These are NOT isolated incidents, this is the case anywhere on site where something has previously been listed as cut or edited it is now noted as a ‘re-release’ which is inaccurate. In addition to this, previous display of information (via attributes) is also formatted in less clear and concise manner throughout too

Another example, this was originally laid out in this (taken from the Inbetweeners Movie - 2011, problem applicable throughout the site / site-wide) format:

Original display (as)

Netherlands: 12 (original rating, withdrawn), Netherlands: 14 (2024, re-rating)


Now:

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Here are a few examples of a problem / issue persistent throughout the site. Hope this can be of help.

- Joseph

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Hi, thanks for providing me with examples, I now understand what you mean. I will raise this with the appropriate team and reply here when I have an answer.  

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We are tracking this in ticket ref #D170831924

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@JosephIngham2003​ this issue has now be resolved. Thanks again for reporting it. Do let us know if you experience any other issues.

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@Dominic​ 

Hi thanks for your response and for fixing the issue with regard to cuts and edited versions (reflected through attributes), this issue has now been resolved although there are still some issues with formatting of re-ratings as I mentioned before

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Some are in full upper-case display (for example this attribute taken from The Substance (2024) )

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Others out of order with how they were added, for example before this - from Poor Things (2023) - which originally read as both ‘original rating, withdrawn’ […] and ‘2024, re-rating’ is now formatted like this:

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All were formally lower case and formatted in a fashion which was clearer and more grammatically accurate (This therefore may also be something worth looking into, as with the previous one this is also an issue which persists, across all relevant IMDB pages on the site)

All the best

Joseph

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Hi, thanks again for pointing this out. There were related issues here. From you previous explanation I understood the first but overlooked the second. I have raise this for the relevant team now. (Tracking #D178754419)

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@Dominic

Alright cool

Thanks

The capitalisation issue is now fixed, however attributes under the certification section are still misplaced (out of their original order), example - the original listing stated ‘original rating, cut’ or ‘original rating, withdrawn’ or likewise ‘1976, re-rating, uncut version’ / ‘1985, re-rating, uncut version’ (for example), are now listed like this (ie. out of order):

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Examples taken from Scream VI (2023) & Rebel Without A Cause (1955), but applicable across IMDB. With this issue fixed all should be resolved, I’m sorry to keep bringing issues to your forefront but I thank you for your continued help, as a contributor it is much appreciated

All the best

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@JosephIngham2003​ Hi again, thanks for your patience, while we addressed  some other, more pressing issues. I can confirm that we have again updated the ordering. (Below is a screengrab of the certificate page for Scream VI (2023)).

Attributes for certificates may still not always be displayed exactly as they where contributed. Whist attributes can be contributed in any order, in an attempt to standardize, internally we categorize the and display them in the following order.

  • Year
  • Certificate Number (i.e. an MPA certificate)
  • Original Rating/Re-Rating,
  • Versions (e.g. 'edit', cut, 're-release' etc)
  • Free text attributes (anything else)

Thanks again for your passion and attention to detail here to help us identify and fix these issues.. 

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