How we verify production listings

How a listing is made

1. 1

   Discovery

   Every listing starts from a public announcement — trade press, casting notices, film-office postings and studio releases. We poll those sources continuously rather than working from a periodic bulletin, which is why a project can appear here within hours of being announced.

2. 2

   Relevance screening

   Most industry news is not a production announcement. Reviews, trailer drops, box-office reports and obituaries are filtered out before any deeper processing. Items that clear that screen are read in full and scored; anything below the threshold is set aside rather than published.

3. 3

   Extraction and date checks

   The project details — title, stage, companies, roles, locations, dates — are extracted from the source article and cross-checked against the open web. A production whose start date has already passed is rejected rather than listed as upcoming, so the list does not fill with stale entries.

4. 4

   Human review before publication

   No production is published automatically. An editor reviews the draft, corrects it against the source, and decides whether it belongs on the list. This is the step most directories skip, and it is why our weekly list is shorter than a raw feed.

5. 5

   Profile enrichment

   Company and crew profiles are researched separately: we look up the official website, read its contact and about pages, and record what is published there. Every field carries a confidence score and the sources it came from.

6. 6

   Contact details are reviewed by a person

   This is the part we are strictest about. Identifiers a machine can check — a website, an IMDb page, a LinkedIn profile — can be applied automatically once verified. Emails, phone numbers, fax numbers and postal addresses never are. Every one of them is queued for a human to accept or reject before it appears to members.

What the dates on a page mean

Production pages show when the record was last updated. Company and crew profiles show when they were last researched. Those are two different things and we label them separately: a production can be re-confirmed without its companies being re-researched. If a page carries no verification date, it has not been through enrichment yet.

What we do not claim

• Production stages change faster than any directory can poll. A project listed as in pre-production may have started shooting since the page was last verified — every page shows when it was last updated so you can judge that yourself.
• We publish contact routes for production offices and companies, not personal contact details for individuals. Where a crew member has no published business contact, the profile says so rather than guessing.
• Coverage is strongest in markets with an active trade press. A production shooting somewhere that generates no public announcement may not reach us at all.
• We do not claim to list every production in the world. We claim that what we list has been checked, and that we tell you when it was checked.

Corrections and removals

If a listing is wrong, tell us and we will fix it. Every production, company and crew page carries a suggest-an-edit control, and corrections from the people named on a listing take priority over anything our pipeline produced. If you would rather not be listed at all, use Do Not Sell or Share My Info and we will remove you. You can also contact us directly.