Hi zainabed,

When we did the system maintenance 2 weeks ago, one of the things that had to be rebuilt from scratch was our background job processing system. I got the basics of it up last week but have yet to migrate the now playing and upcoming jobs.

I'll see about updating the list manually today sometime.

It seems like this issue might have cropped up again. The Great Gatsby and a few other titles haven't shown up the in the Now Playing listing on the site or via the API.

I'm debating switching the results over to a query which you can now build with the new discover method... right now these lists are manually maintained but I'd like to switch them over to be dynamic (which I can only start doing as of this week).

Downside, we might not have the most reliable data with regards to release dates.

Upside, this might be a way to encourage users to make sure the data is more complete.

Regardless, yes, I haven't updated the list in over a week.

I know I and the people I work with would be encouraged to help keep now playing data up to date. Is your query going to be based solely on release dates? That would work for the upcoming releases but there are a number of straight to video releases and movies that sort of get released in festivals and such. If there was some sort of status flag for now playing that might help.

In any case thanks for the up date.

For now the best we can do is sort by popularity, which should hopefully mostly help with those issues. Our database has zero concept of a "theatrical" release vs. any other type. All we have is release dates.

For now, I think this will be better, I can't keep doing this manually. Adding support for different types of releases is something I can look at in the future.

I've deployed the change to the upcoming and now playing methods to be dynamically generated.

1. Some pages are still going to be cached with the old results, depending on what language you request. English should be updated though.
2. The dates that are used to generate these lists is the "primary" date. So if you see a movie missing, or one that is incorrect, this is the value to make sure is correct.
3. Our database has no current way to query by country, so this is going to be a wide range of movies. This should be mostly fixed by sorting by popularity so at least most of the most obvious theatrical releases should be on the first page or two.
4. Our database has no concept of a theatrical or straight to dvd release date. There is no way around this at the moment.

Cheers.

I think something went wrong. This is what I get now: http://oi41.tinypic.com/19428j.jpg

same here.... error parsing for now playing and upcoming.

Ah, it's actually just a coincidence that you're seeing this error on these methods first. The average on some movies is not being reported as a valid float, but rather nan. Which of course, is not valid JSON. It will actually eventually start error'ing on the movie calls to.

I'll get this fixed up.

Should be fixed.

Much appreciated, it's working for me now.

Thanks Travis.

Thank you!

It had actually started error'ing on movie calls too btw. Again, thank you for the quick response!

I'm having trouble with the now playing section again. I'm sorry, I do not know the code our program is using, but we would be able to see a listing of movies released in x days ago and until x days ahead and now it shows no results. If I search for the movie title by the name our program finds it, but not a listing of movies within dates. Just checking if this issue has popped up again. thanks

Hi Phil,

There is no known issue with the now playing or upcoming method. Without verifying the methods you are using, it's hard for me to provide much more of an answer. If you help me by letting me know what method your calling we can at least verify you're having trouble with the same methods we're discussing here.

Thanks.