You can read about why this is here.

Cheers.

I've looked at the thread and I'm still having issues getting the information I need. My end goal is to get up coming movies for the US. Currently using getUpcoming returns them in a random date order. So my first request is to order them by date just like top rated is ordered by rated. If that can't be done I started using the discover method. I've tried :

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/movie?certification_country=US&api_key=[KEY]&language=en&certification.lte=R&sort_by=release_date.asc&release_date.gte=2014-08-23&page=1&release_date.lte=2014-11-23

And I still get movies that are bring released in other countries when they where released in the US along time ago. I know that adding primary_release_year helps but I'm looking for a range of movies and specifying the year doesn't seem right. What happens when that range over laps into the next year. Seems like i need a use_primary_release as a bool. Remember I really just want the upcoming movies.

What do you think is the best way to achieve my goal?

Thanks

Hey Joe,

The ?sort_by=release_date.asc is actually sorting by the primary release date. Since we don’t support searching or filtering by country and release date pairs, this is why you’ll be getting sporadic results like you are.

There’s kind of 2 things that needs to happen in order to fix this, this ticket here relating to multiple release dates and types, and then this one here moving to support legitimate per country filtering.

The first ticket will at least allow us to be able to specifically see only what’s actually in theatres, which is most of the problem here since there’s no designation for that in our DB right now.