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Boycott IMDb
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Las Vegas July 12, 2007 - IMDB.com code of conduct regarding projects in development.
IMDB.com is one of the largest on-line resource that provides free and subscription-based information on Movie and TV productions and people. As a fee-based provider, IMDB.com is held to a reasonable level of accuracy and performance.
Recently, IMDB.com has ignored the abuse of their system and guidelines to allow the unwarranted cancellation of legitimate film and TV listings.
The cancellation policies of the IMDB.com listing service has negatively affected a great many film and TV projects due to the inconsistent and unprotected management of the IMDB database.
Since October 2006 Dante's Inferno has been listed on IMDB.com as a film in pre-production. Since that time its ratings were among the highest for its category( insert more specific..) Without any attempt to contact the producer, Boris Acosta and with no warning, IMDB removed this listing from its database. It was, it seems, the efforts of one or several people who for personal reasons sought to damage the marketing efforts of this film.
Among the cast and crew on Dante’s listing were:
Director: Armand Mastroianni - The Celestine Prophecy, He Knows You Are Alone (Tom Hanks)
Editor: Thom Noble – (Oscar winner): Witness, Thelma and Louise, The Mask of Zorro, etc.
Production Designer: Dan
Hennah – (Oscar winner):
King Kong and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Oscar Winner!
Bridget
Bourke - Line Producer and Production Manager from Master
and Commander and The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Chris
Hennah
- Art Department Manager from King Kong and The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Lesley
Burkes-Harding - Costume Designer from The Lord of the
Rings trilogy.
Rob
Marsh – Camera Operator for The Lord of the Rings, The
Chronicles of Narnia, and the upcoming Bridge to Terabithia, etc.
Jennifer
Lambert - Unit nurse from Harry Potter and the Prisoner
of Azkaban
Davina
Lamont - Make-up artist and hair stylist from The Lord
of the Rings trilogy.
Cast:
• Vincent Spano (from the United States): Alive, Texas Rangers, Rumble Fish
• Silvia Colloca (from Italy): Van Helsing, The Detonator
• Jeff Conaway (from the United States): Grease, Taxi and Babylon 5 (TV series)
• Antonio Cupo(from Canada): Lost Behind Bars, Eligy
• Nina Hagen (from Germany): The 7 Dwarfs, , Party Monster
• Fabiana Udenio (from Argentina): RoboCop 2, The Wedding Planner
• Nevin Millan (from Croacia): Flags of our Fathers, Charmed
• Diane Salinger (from the United States): Batman Returns, The Scarlet Letter
• Yennifer Behrens (from Venezuela): The Specialist, A Day Without a Mexican
Given the significant vulnerability of the IMDB cancellation policy, the reasonable level of information management and protection of this fee-based database is not being maintained. Further, if the problem is not addressed, all of the listings on IMDB.com are subject to the same blind cancellation from any outside party.
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