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Returning premiere date instead of theatrical date
posted by InmatrixSTAFFMOD on November 13, 2017 at 8:41 AM
When searching for the 2015 movie "The Witch" (https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/310131-the-witch) using: http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=[mykey]&query=The%20Witch
The resulting "release_date" field for this movie is 2016, not the 2015 premiere date even though the premiere date is listed in the DB.
Is it possible to get the premiere date in the result instead of the theatrical date?
Reply by Travis Bell
on November 13, 2017 at 11:05 AM
Hi there,
We don't automatically use the premiere dates as our official release dates. The way it works is by looking for release dates in this order:
In this case there's a limited or theatrical release so that becomes our official release date.
Reply by Inmatrix
on November 13, 2017 at 1:40 PM
This is causing issues as IMDB and certain groups are using the Premiere date, is it possible to add a parameter to the query to prefer this date?
Reply by Travis Bell
on November 14, 2017 at 10:26 AM
Unfortunately search does not support the release type filter at this time.
Reply by Inmatrix
on November 14, 2017 at 3:30 PM
I would like to add this as a feature request