UPDATE: 9:30PM. Apparently after a day of uproar, IMDb has put the writer's credit back where it belongs, at the top of the listing. Geesh. They can still suck it for thinking nobody would notice. But I do appreciate that the crazies over at IMDb seemed to be overruled by somebody with some sense of decency.
I learned today that the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDb) has decided that writers - you know, the ones that write -- say the script, the dialogue, the action sequences - well, they are just "additional details" to the movie making process and their credits have been moved from the top of the citation to now appear BELOW THE CREW LISTINGS -- below extras, below PA's, below people who simply xeroxed the script. I understand this change is for the free IMDB searches and that they remain "above the line" in pro searches. Oh, wow. Thanks. I feel so much better. Not really.
As a writer, I'm stunned. What an insult. We writers, even those of phenomenal talents, are continually treated like something on a bottom of a shoe in Hollywood - and that's on a good day. I honestly do not know why we accept this and yet, I'm at a loss for any action plan to combat this disgracerful treatment other than to say: IMDB, you can suck it.
When it comes time for anybody to buy into IMDb pro, I say put your money into STUDIO SYSTEM, a far better, more accurate database -- the one that actually the studio peeps rely on.
IMDBb may you die a slow, money-bleed of an internet death real fast. And please, anybody who supports creative rights, boycott the site.
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