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Release date shown for wrong country
I used to always see the release date for Sweden based on my "Country/region of residence" being set to Sweden under Personal settings. But now, even when a release date exists for Sweden, some other release date is shown, and it is not the earliest one. It seems to be linked to the country of the movie. For Example for "8-ban deguchi" ("The Exit 8") www.imdb.com/title/tt35222590/reference the release date shown is for Japan. Another example, "Die My Love" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9362736/reference shows the release date for USA. For both movies, there is a release date for Sweden and in both cases there are release dates earlier than Japan and USA.
Under Account settings > Site Settings > Title display I have always had the Country/region set to "Original" in order to view the title in the original language and not in Swedish. But now it seems that (perhaps accidentally) this has changed and the Country/region specified for Title display also affects the release date shown.
I hope this can be fixed so that the correct release date can be shown for my region, while being able to see the movie titles in their original language.
Col_Needham
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16 hours ago
@nikosdimitrakas This behaviour is as designed, sorry. The local content (release date / certificate / running time) display is determined by the “Country/region” setting on https://www.imdb.com/preferences/general/ and customers with “Original” here get original titles and earliest release dates. This is based on customer feedback on how this setting should work.
The settings have operated like this since 2010 for the standard title pages. If the release date was still localised on title/reference view then this was a bug in the previous reference view, sorry. If you would like Swedish release dates then you will also see local Swedish titles, however, the original title is always displayed underneath the local title, at least on title pages (although not on name pages and elsewhere).
Hope this helps.
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