Showtimes: OV (original version) option for showtimes

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Imdb is great. Thanks for the great service. As a search option for showtimes it would be great to have a possibility to display movies that are played in their OV in the cinema. As an example I live in Germany but am not a fan of dubbed movies. So I have to check each website if they play a movie in the original version in English, or the dubbed German version. It would be awesome, if imdb could implement that option on the website and the Android app =) Thanks a lot and greets Immanuel
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Posted 5 years ago

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5 years ago
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i cant show my movie when not published yet
5 years ago
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Guten Tag Herr Immanuel,

It would be great if it IMDb or one of its partner's provided a service to find where foreign language films are available to view without dubbing. I much prefer to watch non-English language films in their original version without dubbing.

In the US:
Ticketing powered by Fandango.
Movie showtimes data provided by West World Media and is subject to change.
If such information is available in Germany other countries, it would be through an IMDb partner.
5 years ago
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Thanks for the answer Dan.

So I would have to contact the imdb partner that provides the info for German Cinemas?
Do you have the appropriate contact Infos?
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2015-05-05T16:09:04+00:00
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I currently do not know the IMDb partner for German Cinemas. I will post it in this thread if I can find it.

It would probably help to contact that partner when that contact information is available. I would also reference this thread.
2015-05-05T16:56:50+00:00
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Very cool Thanks.
I'll do that...
5 years ago
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I have always believed that West World Media  provided all the Showtime information for IMDb since their Movie Listings information page states :
Movie & Showtimes

West World Media is the world leader in movie showtimes listings and movie-related data. We cover every screen in more than 50 countries. View Countries »

If it's playing on a screen (or even projected on the side of a building), we know at what time, each and every week.

At the bottom of each of my IMDb Showtimes page, I find the following text:
Movie showtimes data provided by West World Media and is subject to change
So I changed my options and checked for Berlin (Country='DE' and Postal Code='10117') and the same text is at the bottom of that page. So I think you can be sure that West World Media is the partner for Germany as well.
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5 years ago
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I visited their website and it looks very promising.
There I found that Germany belongs to the 50 countries, for which infos are provided.

I will now get into contact with their support and am going to post updates here.

Thanks a lot.
5 years ago
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I wrote to West World Media and got the following reply:

Hi Immanuel:

Thanks for reaching out to us. We actually already send the OV field to IMDb for all applicable movies in Germany. However, after a little investigating on our side, for whatever reason, IMDb has decided to ignore that particular field. I ask someone on my staff today to reach out to them to see if they would add it, since its already in their feeds from us. I hope they agree and this works out for you. 


Thanks for digging in and letting us now. Enjoy the movies, and go often!

Brett West | President & CEO
So it looks like the OV info is already available to IMDb, but is not implemented and used currently.
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