Hi @madushan

Indeed, some countries might not have any release dates added. On the website, I map some groups of countries together, and I believe New Zealand is mapped together with Australia. So specifying NZ|AU would be the same as I am doing on the website.

Also I noticed that the /movie/upcoming also defaults to a date range I cannot change

If you want to do anything custom like that, you should use the /discover/movie method. Upcoming is actually a discover call, so feel free to tweak some of the filters to your liking.

If you're specifying a region, you won't find much with the primary_release_date filter. Stick with the release_date. Now, having said that, lots of countries might not be all that filled out so your mileage may vary. Try NZ|AUand see if it's better.

Does the API support multiple regions in a single request?

Discover and search supports querying multiple regions, yes. It's the same format as all of the filters that support multiple options, | and ,.

Thanks @travisbell

Using region NZ|AU provides better results for me. Looking at the current cinema websites, it is still a fraction of what they have (and some false positives as some AU releases hasn't reached NZ), since most movies they show doesn't have a NZ release date and not necessarily an AU release date either.

Although I think most release dates for NZ are also lacking in IMDb as well.

Where does the release data originate from?

Is it all user input data or does it come from a third-party source?

All data on TMDb is user input. We don't import data from anywhere.

I found this website and it's been around for 10 years. Has release data for US and CA that appears accurate and updated daily.

http://www.the-numbers.com/

That only problem is they don't appear to have an API.

http://www.the-numbers.com/

Doesn't appear to have a place where I can get release information per country/region (Unless you scrape the entire site and query that data yourself) And also the accuracy is still questionable. TMDb seems closer to reality, atleast at this point regarding NZ releases.

@madushan I found an API for their website. You can read more info here.

http://www.opusdata.com/

There is info on usage restrictions or sign up requirements. It's not as nice as TMDb :), but it's another option to look but if you're doing real-time API calls to TMDb then this might not be useful.

I can't find any reference to NZ releases, but there is a blog post from 2015 saying they've added Australia.

http://www.opusdata.com/news/new-on-opusdata-australian-box-office-charts

I can't say their data is better, but from their website.

OpusData is located in Beverly Hills, CA. NIS has been working for over a decade to help clients succeed by providing them the information they need at the highest standards of accuracy, timeliness and transparency.

I'm going to fill out the sign up form and see what happens.

When it comes to APIs you can never have to much data!

Sorry to push this thread up again, but I think it's the correct place for my question:

I tried to query the series "Game of Thrones" for release dates. I'm interested in the German release dates. For some reason this doesn't work. I get the same "first_air_dates" with my requests:

• https://api.themoviedb.org/3/tv/1399?api_key=&language=de-DE
• https://api.themoviedb.org/3/tv/1399?api_key=&language=de-DE&region=DE

Am I doing or expecting something wrong ? Are series seasons not supported by the region parameter?

TV doesn't have any concept of regions for air dates at this time. We only support one air date and that is the original air date on the original network.

Mhm, too bad :-( Especially the release dates for tv series differ very much in region :-( Are there at least any plans to change that in the future?

There is plans to add multiple air dates but it's a pretty big feature which is why it hasn't been started yet. I do not have an ETA at this time.