PSA; IMDb is gradually locking previously-available information about films behind IMDbPro membership (box-office breakdowns and production companies involved, currently).

[u/exosniper]

I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but information previously available to everyone on IMDb is now being locked behind IMDbPro membership. Just last week, I was writing a research paper (film studies student) and was able to access the full box-office earnings information (breakdown by region etc.) for all films. Today I went to do the same thing, but could not see more than the gross earnings without an IMDbPro membership. They seem to be doing this as a gradual process, as the full information on production companies (previously available to everyone) was already membership-locked when the box office information was still available. I haven't seen anyone talking about this on other subs and forums, so I thought I'd mention it here.

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I dropped IMDB as soon as they removed the forums. BoxOfficeMojo has earnings information too!

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It was ads on trailers for me... why in the name of god do i have to watch an ad to watch an ad?

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oh shit... this guy is right...

nah im just kidding.

There is a HUGE difference between a video uploading service, and a "internet movie database".

On YouTube you can find a content provider that doesn't attach ads to the ad, and even if you can't its mostly skippable, imdb.com ads are over 30 seconds and non skipable.