@eliduke said:
Inconsistent release date for the movie "O, Brother Where Art Thou?"
I am seeing two different release dates across a couple different views.

The release date listed in search results is August 30th, 2000.
https://www.themoviedb.org/search?query=o%20brother

This is the world premiere date.

The release date listed on the individual movie page is 12/21/2000.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/134-o-brother-where-art-thou

This must be the premiere date in the country specified in your profile and a user has added this date to your country.
If in an API Request for details you use the filter"&region=" you will receive this date.

Hey @eliduke,

So a few things. First off, the website does a bunch of things differently than the API, so it's not fair to compare them. With regards to the date in search results, it's falling back to what looks like, is the earliest theatrical date we have stored (France). But it should use your country as a way to display the local release date to you if we have it. For me for example (in Canada), in the search results, I see December 21, 2000.

So my first question to you is going to be what is your account locale settings set to? You can copy and paste the "User Prefs" and "Locale" blocks from here to let me see what we're detecting for you.

Secondly, with regards to the API, and perhaps the August date in general, our "primary release date" is chosen by looking at a few things (outlined here). Regardless of what any other source says, if it was released theatrically in France in August, then that is the primary release date it should be here on TMDB. As to whether that happened, I cannot say. Someone with better research skills than me will have to check.

You can of course make your own logic for choosing a date by pulling down the /release_dates method. Preferring a certain country or type over another yourself.

Hey Travis! Thanks response. Here’s the copy and paste from my user prefs and locales:

User Prefs
IP: xxxxx
I18n: en-US
adult: false
i18n_fallback_language: en-US
locale: en-US
country_code: US
timezone: America/Los_Angeles
local_time: 2024-02-01 09:35:22 -0800

Locale
requested_language: en
requested_country: US
choose_valid_i18n: ["en-US", "en", "US"]
choose_user_locale: ["en-US", "en", "US"]
choose_valid_fallback_i18n: ["en-US", "en", "US"]

Based on that, I would expect to be getting the US release date, which would be the Dec 21, right?