IMDB refuses to take down film that never got made

Hi, Nathan Altai.

I believe that in 2016-2017 there were more evidences related to this movie, which could allow to think the release happened at Bio Mors:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6278268/releaseinfo
But it is also possible those data were mistaken, no matter provided intentionally or not.

If you mean that release was not in 2917 but 2016, in its turn, this does not mean "never came out".

Anyway, please could you be more persuasive against the existing sources (not all of them for now):

(A) The past event: https://www.facebook.com/pg/filmtalentnord/events/?ref=page_internal that seems took place on January 23, 2016: https://www.facebook.com/events/899274450155995/ ;

(B) The article #40 in "Magasinet Mors" nr. 8 / 2016:
https://issuu.com/bitschandpieces/docs/omagasin8_online
full quoted below:

FILMTALENTER BOLTRER SIG PÅ MORS
FILMTALENT NORD TILTRÆKKER UNGE FRA HELE NORD- OG MIDTJYLLAND
Filmholdet holder briefing i Nationalpark Thy
Filmoptagelser til filmen “Mandom på afveje”.
Unge filmtalenter fra 15-25 år puster i øjeblikket ud oven på en heftig sommer med mange og lange optagedage fyldt med udfordringer og sjove oplevelser. De er alle en del af det nye talentprojekt på Mors: Filmtalent Nord, der har til formål at udnytte det store potentiale, der findes blandt Nordjyllands unge, udvikle dem og skabe et netværk, de kan bruge som springbræt til at komme videre med deres filminteresse. ”Vi er rigtig stolte over, at vi med et projekt som Filmtalent Nord, kan tiltrække deltagere til Mors fra hele Nord- og Midtjylland, det siger lidt om projektets indhold og kvalitet, når unge gider pendle fra Aalborg til Mors,” fortæller initiativtager Kasper Vegeberg. Talenthold for morsingboer Filmtalenterne er det sidste år blevet udfordret og afprøvet inden for forskellige genrer, og undervist af nogle af filmbranchens dygtigste aktører, bl.a. instruktør Christina Rosendahl, den lokale skuespillerinde Sonja Suhl og stuntmanden Klaus Hjuler. Overalt på Mors, har deltagerne fra Filmtalent Nord mødt velvilje og hjælpsomhed, for at projektet skulle lykkes og blive en succes. Lokale butikker, virksomheder og private personer har alle hjulpet og støttet produktionen.
Instruktør Roalexen David holder øje med optagelserne, mens cheffotograf William Frank Carstens filmer.
Manddom på afveje De unge filmtalenter har selv stået for det hele, fra udarbejdelse af manuskriptet, filme og klippe den endelige film. Filmens cheffotograf, 17-årige Jenny Timmers fra Mors, fortæller om projektet, at det har været super fedt at være med og møde de andre deltagere, som hun er meget sammen med. Deres afgangsprojekt ’Manddom på Afveje’, handler om den ældre småracistiske bankdirektør John, hvis hverdag er blevet grå og triviel. En dag siger konen stop og vil skilles, inden hun keder sig ihjel. Det kaster John ud i en livskrise og for at udfordre og realisere sig selv, vælger han at tage på en tre dages overlevelsestur i Nationalpark Thy. Ved et uheld kommer John og den småkriminelle indvandrer Samir væk fra resten af gruppen, de er nu overladt til hinandens selskab i Nationalparkens vildnis. Ved fælles hjælp må de kæmpe sig gennem det rå landskab og overvinde de forhindringer, de møder undervejs. ”Det har været en stor oplevelse for alle deltagerne at skabe en film fra bunden, hvor de selv havde ansvaret for det hele”, siger Jenny Timmers. Hun forklarer, at hun var meget nervøs, da de startede med at filme og bange for at lave fejl, men at det var en vildt stor

Ed Jones (XLIX)
Please explain on this stupid nonsense:
"MtP, Stop giving advice on how to cheat the system, or is against IMDb policy."

Ed Jones (XLIX)
you are an experienced user of GS, and you know for sure that the posts here may be commented separately. Do not mix the possible answers to Nathan Altai's question under this post. Under this post you may prove to be or not to be a windbag. Your unsaid explanations similar to "self-explanatory" prove for the latter, because it's not the first time and is closer to a habit.

I wait for your detailed explanation. Last time it was a month and no result, now you have an hour as a native English speaker.

Now MtP.
Your referenced "Abandoned" and cited this topic in the same sentence. Nowhere is abandoned in this topic. You have given misleading information.
https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/production-status/GBBBPNJHFZZKY7W9#



Your quotes from above.

There are some rare cases when movies have the status "abandoned" in IMDb. That means the product has passed, at least, the status of filming (see the guidelines:


can not presume if such policy is going to be changed or not by IMDb, but for now I see, they may change the status of Manddom På Afveje to "abandoned"

There is no such thing as "ABANDONED" Status.
Read below. It's not there.
Your explanation?


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Now Ed Jones (XLIX), please stop addressing me as "MtP" (this may be more for buddies).

First. 
My explanation:
"There are some rare cases when movies have the status "abandoned" in IMDb. That means the product has passed, at least, the status of filming (see the guidelines: https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/production-status/GBBBPNJHFZZKY7W9#)"

I confirm there are movies having the status "abandoned" in IMDb. 
Then further link is explaining not the status "abandoned" but the status "Filming" -- this is obvious if you follow the punctuation marks.

Second (and important).
You are trying to prove that I "have given misleading information" to Nathan Altai (that is also not true in view of the above).
But you've blamed me that I am "giving advice on how to cheat the system, or is against IMDb policy." -- THIS must be explained.

MtP
If you had taken the time to find policy...............Hmmm
If you'll notice this is not considered a "Status"

Because of the released trailer, his title probably wont qualify. That is why he has already been turned down.

And none of this qualifies because it is not "In Development". It is released.

Here it is

In Development - Title Removal Criteria

Please know that not all in-development listings on IMDbPro last forever. While many titles eventually get produced, some titles are removed from the site for various reasons. Below are the following reasons why in-development titles are eligible for removal from the site:

A request from the project's original submitter or a published news article states that the title is dead and no longer a possibility. The title's status is inactive/unknown over an extended period of time (approximately 5+ years for feature films, 1-2+ years for other listings) and its MOVIEmeter ranking is not within the Top 100K titles. These conditions indicate that a title is inactive and is of little or no interest to IMDbPro subscribers. Any useful or pertinent data (writer, producer, production company, plot etc.) is no longer listed on its page. A title receives data additions that are false, intentionally misleading or malicious. These violations include: Adding unverified credits of high-ranking STARmeter names, which only appear to boost the title's legitimacy or visibility on the site, i.e. resume inflation. Adding an unverified company or studio to the title, which is not involved with the project and only appears to boost its legitimacy or visibility on the site. Submitting false screening dates to film festivals such as Sundance, Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Venice, etc.

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You can update your existing project by clicking on the "edit" or "update" button on its title page. If no updates are made to a project after a certain period of time, then the title may be considered for deletion.

Nathan Altai, if the movie was fully filmed and it seems that it was, it is elgible on IMDb. Even if production would have ceased midway, some confirmed filmed footage would have allowed it to stay on IMDb with "(unfinished)" specified on director's listings and/or abandoned as a production status. 

From what I was able to scavenge on the Internet it seems that movie actually was released and shown on Kulturmødet Mors festival in 2017, as that post on Facebook suggests. It also says that film was fully completed in 2017, including fully finished edit. 

IMDb official staff should intervene so that the thread doesn't get out of hand. Nathan’s attitude has been pretty mature and respectful, while some others haven’t acted that way.


If a film isn’t completed and is never released, it should be eligible for deletion. Teasers, trailers or random segments shown somewhere doesn’t really mean anything - the film has to be finished in some form and released somewhere.


If what Nikolay above says is true, then the case is probably different and the film is elgible on IMDb.

Hi all,

I've temporarily removed this title page while we confirm if it's eligible for a page listing, the update should appear online shortly.

Please remember, if the "first edition" of the title was displayed to the public then this will be eligible for a title page on IMDb as we reflect a titles first public release - even if subsequently followed by by another 'full' edit. 

Thanks for all your comments. 

Joel