Adding a new title

If you've clicked re-check these updates and the option to submit your title isn't shown at the bottom of the page, it means there are some errors and/or warnings in your submission that will need your attention.

Scroll through the page and look for any yellow or red sections, once found have a read of the error message and take the appropriate action. This is explained further up the page.

Also, make sure you've included the minimum amount of information:

• 2 x items of basic identifying information (e.g. genre, director, language, country of origin)
  
  
• 1 x item of production information (e.g. budget, official sites, distributors)
  
  
• 3 x items of major credits (e.g. cast, writers, producers, editors, etc)

Along with the mandory information:

• Miscellaneous link to verify the titles in development

If you don't have the minimum information available, you'll need to acknowledge this by ticking the box in the form and include a comment to explain why. 

The new title you submit will need to first be reviewed by a member of the editing team to ensure it's accurate and eligible - for the most part this takes between 12-48 hours, however may take longer.

If you'd like to know its status, you can track your request from your contribution history - alternatively, you can review the list of pending data to get an idea of when we'll get to your item.

If you'd like to know its status, you can track your request and it should tell you if the title has been rejected, along with a guidance of what to do next to re-submit the request for it to be approved in the future.

Remember that your request should adhere to the policies in this article and should include enough evidence to help our editing team verify that the title's in active production or released.

The number of projects that are cancelled, completed but never get a release is enormous.

To ensure we're being as factual as possible, we need to be able to verify the new title ourselves before t can be approved.

If you provide verifiable evidence that the title fulfills our acceptance criteria in some way, we'll be glad to list it. 

We don't care if the budget is $1,000 or $100,000,000: as long as the title is submitted with the proper information and meets our eligibility criteria we will list it.

Of course, the eligibility of high profile studio projects is easier to verify but even those titles get cancelled/removed/rejected if our staff fails to verify their eligibility too.

Sometimes, a title exists and is released in more than one versions; typically this happens when a film premieres at festivals or other limited release and then undergoes changes before wider distribution, or when a film is re-released in an extended version (such as a director's cut, or special edition). This is not uncommon, and we typically document the differences between two or more versions of the same work by adding an entry to the title's Alternative Versions section.

In some rare cases two versions of the same title may differ significantly enough to warrant the creation of two separate title pages. When this happens, the two versions can linked via an entry in the 'Movie Connection' section through the appropriate "version of" connection. This is however a very rare exception that is made only when we determine that two separate title pages are warranted. The decision to create a separate new title page instead of an alternate version entry is exclusively made on a case-by-case basis by our editors.

To provide some guidance, these are some of the criteria that are typically considered when determining whether a new version of the film justifies the creation of a separate title page:

• Storyline: Does the plot differ significantly between versions (e.g. different endings, different story outcome for some characters), or are the differences limited to additional scenes/content (e.g. insertion of additional material originally left out of the first release or other minor story changes)?

 

• Co-existence: Are/were both versions of the same title available for viewing at the same time, or did one version effectively replace the other upon release?

 

• Running time: Does the new version include a substantial amount of new footage (e.g. there's a significant difference from the original running time)?

 

• Cast: Do the two versions feature different cast members playing the same role (e.g. scenes were reshot with different actors after the release of the initial version)?

 

• Different above the line talent: Are there notable differences in the main creative credits (e.g. director, writer) or is the new version a re-edited cut of the same film with only a few new cast or crew members (e.g. a different editor or music composer)?

 

• Wide vs. Limited distribution: How widely was each version distributed? Was the first version of a film seen by only a few people before being re-cut/re-edited later for theatrical distribution or was the film was widely released and then re-released in a different version?

 

• Changes caused by release timing: Was a new version of a film created to include changes or additional footage because of events occurring during the time elapsed that from the original release (e.g. a documentary that required changes to include new information about events that transpired after it originally premiered)?

Unless the new version of a title is significantly and verifiably different from the original one in several of the above areas, we will not create a separate title page, and details the new version should be submitted as an "Alternate Versions" entry for the original film.

All titles in production/development are accepted on a provisional basis and are periodically reviewed.

If we're unable to verify that they're still eligible to be listed, we will remove them. If you want to avoid this, make sure that the information about the title is current and factual, and remember that we reserve the right to withdraw and modify information at any time at our discretion.

If you feel that the title should be reinstated, you need to resubmit it and our editors will re-examine it as a new submission.

If your title's information is mixed with another persons, then it's likely you've not submitted it correctly via the new title form mentioned above in this article.

To correct this, you'll need to go back to the title page and use the Edit page button found at the bottom, you can then submit removal requests for the data you've added. 

Once complete, please re-check the How to section of this article for more instructions for how to submit your new title. 

If a title is listed twice on the website, you can submit a merge request to combine them together into one.

For more information, please see our article How can I merge two titles?