It should be part of the Collection and I'm curious why the moderators have A Quiet Place Collection locked preventing this from being added. It can't be because of the lack of actors from the Part I or Part II because there are countless sequels/prequels without actors from the originals that are included in film Collections. This site is becoming more and more nit-picky.

I would invite you both to read the collection guidelines: https://www.themoviedb.org/bible/collection

The only way it would make sense to us to add it to the collection is if the studio themself count A Quiet Place: Day One as part of the series, and officially rename the upcoming sequel Part IV rather than Part III.

@banana_girl said:

I would invite you both to read the collection guidelines: https://www.themoviedb.org/bible/collection

The only way it would make sense to us to add it to the collection is if the studio themself count A Quiet Place: Day One as part of the series, and official rename the upcoming sequel Part IV rather than Part III.

I invite you to read the collection guidelines again.

Other popular examples are The Fast and the Furious Collection, which includes the Tokyo Drift spin-off

This seems a bit more Collection worthy than TOKYO DRIFT.

I don't know why in recent years it seems that tmdb has been governed by robots; but this overly strict set of guidelines being enforced to the letter doesn't help any of the community.

Convenient of you to leave out the part of the Bible where it is explained the only reason the Tokyo Drift spin-off is included in the The Fast and the Furious Collection is because many of sequels are officially numbered so Tokyo Drift is undeniably #3 in the series.

I already said that we would apply the same exception for A Quiet Place: Day One IF the studio/distributor make it part of the film series (by renaming the upcoming sequel). Otherwise, it's pretty clear they don't count it as part of the original series.

No matter what, they'll be grouped together when Universes are launched.

An absolutely horrible call by the admins and mods on this one. Outside of a few sticklers, everyone across the globe - including the studio - understands and agrees that this is indeed a part of the A Quiet Place Collection. I even re-read the "Collection Bible" page and yes... A Quiet Place: Day One absolutely still fits the requirements. Especially because there has been absolutely no official indication from any of the production studios or from the distributor Paramount that this is film is even going to be the beginning of its very own franchise. Instead, they have already indicated that this will be followed by one final sequel entitled "A Quiet Place Part III" which will officially end the film series as a tetralogy (not counting other completely different media like video games). Neither have the franchise creators Scott Beck and Bryan Woods - nor John Krasinski who is director for 3 out of the 4 films - ever mentioned that they are officially beginning an entirely new franchise based on Day One. If you have seen official sources stating otherwise then I'd suggest publishing the story because you will have scooped the entire Hollywood press.

And to drag any movie numbering within the titles into the equation is completely illogical and/or disingenuous. I mean by that logic the Star Wars films would not compromise one collection since the film numbering started with Episodes 4, 5, and 6, then went backwards to 1, 2, and 3, and then shot forward to 7, 8, and 9. We have almost the exact same situation here with A Quiet Place in that we have the first two movies, and then this Day One film serving as a prequel, and then they will jump forward to the actual final sequel being Part III. So this Day One film would technically need to be "Part 0" rather than being "Part III" anyway, which means your entire argument is basically null and void. To be quite honest, this is the type of nonsensical call that users expect from the leadership at TheTVDB... but I think most of us agree that we typically expect better from TMDB. Very disappointing. But all that said, it's certainly not the end of the world... everybody will just circumvent your guys' silly decision and add it to our collection of A Quiet Place films manually.

For what it is worth, https://www.aquietplacemovie.com/ , a URL that is being used as an official homepage for both https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/447332-a-quiet-place and https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/520763-a-quiet-place-part-ii is currently showing information about "Day One".

Also, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/938-djimon-hounsou portrays in "Day One" the same character as in "Part II".

@banana_girl said:

Convenient of you to leave out the part of the Bible where it is explained the only reason the Tokyo Drift spin-off is included in the The Fast and the Furious Collection is because many of sequels are officially numbered so Tokyo Drift is undeniably #3 in the series.

I already said that we would apply the same exception for A Quiet Place: Day One IF the studio/distributor make it part of the film series (by renaming the upcoming sequel). Otherwise, it's pretty clear they don't count it as part of the original series.

No matter what, they'll be grouped together when Universes are launched.

Convenient? No, it's careless and lazy of me. TMDB's administrative team's move to become religious zealots of their Guidelines Bible doctrine has gotten out of control; and quite frankly, you've lost a significant amount of respect in the community at large. This is a perfect example of why.

Universes are a great step, call us when it's in place and adopted by the rest of the world's media scrappers; can't wait to see what nonsense restrictions get put in place there. But that's not where we're at now, we have Collections and that's it. In any event, it's a weak argument when the dang name of the collection is in the name of the movie. It's splitting hairs due to lacking common sense.

Like @JHRobbins said, we'll just mark are local collections accordingly. Lack of consistency is way more preferential to the nonsense being pushed on this and other platforms housing metadata. It's very depressing to see such a wealth of knowledge and data standardization fall in this way. You guys should be governing this data for the betterment of the community; but instead you govern it like every other governing body, by your own ideological standards enforced onto others reliant on you.

EDIT: Looks like Hell House LLC Collection contains Hell House LLC Origins. https://www.themoviedb.org/collection/607112-hell-house-llc-collection?language=en-US

I guess we should fix that, I mean, it's not even Hell House LLC IV? Wait a minute....what about the upcoming Hell House LLC: Lineage? Plot is unknown, yet it's part of the Collection? Surely that's a mistake, how could anyone make it? What about Annabelle Collection? I see a bunch in there, no numbering?? How do we know it's part of the Collection correctly??!? Children of the Corn Collection is looking a bit suspect, I see a few unnumbered sequels... The Conjuring Collection is looking pretty sketchy too....I mean, they have the Devil Made Me Do It...themoveiedb's Devil no doubt! The guidelines must be enforced!!! /sarcasm if it's not clear...

The guidelines are not doctrine. The guidelines are GUIDElines. Nothing can every be 100% accounted for with over a hundred years of media. I can find a fault to the Collections guidelines in probably well over half of all Collections.

I'm gonna chime in and also say I find this and the removal of https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/338947-hellraiser from the Hellraiser Collection (if it was ever in it to begin with) to be silly. Apparently prequels don't matter anymore. Maybe I just don't know what the meaning of a "Collection" is in reference to movies. C'est la vie!

@EarthBoundX5 said:

EDIT: Looks like Hell House LLC Collection contains Hell House LLC Origins. https://www.themoviedb.org/collection/607112-hell-house-llc-collection?language=en-US

I guess we should fix that, I mean, it's not even Hell House LLC IV? Wait a minute....what about the upcoming Hell House LLC: Lineage? Plot is unknown, yet it's part of the Collection? Surely that's a mistake, how could anyone make it? What about Annabelle Collection? I see a bunch in there, no numbering?? How do we know it's part of the Collection correctly??!? Children of the Corn Collection is looking a bit suspect, I see a few unnumbered sequels... The Conjuring Collection is looking pretty sketchy too....I mean, they have the Devil Made Me Do It...themoveiedb's Devil no doubt! The guidelines must be enforced!!! /sarcasm if it's not clear...

No, no. You're right. All of those Collections need to be dissolved or trimmed. The guidelines are the guidelines! I say we report everything!

This explains why there's no secondary or primary MCU Collection with all the movies in them! I get it, I get it! I always found that incredibly silly since those movies all kinda connect to each other.

+1 for adding this movie into the collection... but it seems we are "worlds against the bible protector"...

Luckily I can manually change a collection inside Kodi, problem solved at least for me...

I agree with comment section. This is a ridiculous rule that makes 0 sense. Same like another rule where the movie origin country is not based on which country the movie is from, but which language the movie production spoke while making it, which is RIDICULOUS. The best example of this is , Lucy Scarlett Johannason film. Apparently its a FRANCE movie. Ridiculous site.

@kedireturns said:

[...] Same like another rule where the movie origin country is not based on which country the movie is from, but which language the movie production spoke while making it, which is RIDICULOUS. The best example of this is , Lucy Scarlett Johannason film. Apparently its a FRANCE movie. Ridiculous site.

This is wrong, the movies origin country is France:

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/240832-lucy/edit?active_nav_item=primary_facts

or at least it is wrong since December 20, 2023 when it was changed.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/240832-lucy/changes?filter_key=key&filter=origin_country

I posted in another thread, but wanted to post this in this thread as well since the mods keep pointing people here. According to John Krasinski, "A Quiet Place: Day One" is the prequel (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woifMRP_gdQ, specifically from 3:23 to 4:00.) Neither the "bible" nor the mods allow prequels in collections; only sequels are allowed--an obviously stupid rule. It's time to change the rule book.

@etfonehome said:

I posted in another thread, but wanted to post this in this thread as well since the mods keep pointing people here. According to John Krasinski, "A Quiet Place: Day One" is the prequel (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woifMRP_gdQ, specifically from 3:23 to 4:00.) Neither the "bible" nor the mods allow prequels in collections; only sequels are allowed--an obviously stupid rule. It's time to change the rule book.

there we go, now we wait for them to pull out another random nonsense to justify their illogical stances.

@kedireturns said:

@etfonehome said:

I posted in another thread, but wanted to post this in this thread as well since the mods keep pointing people here. According to John Krasinski, "A Quiet Place: Day One" is the prequel (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woifMRP_gdQ, specifically from 3:23 to 4:00.) Neither the "bible" nor the mods allow prequels in collections; only sequels are allowed--an obviously stupid rule. It's time to change the rule book.

there we go, now we wait for them to pull out another random nonsense to justify their illogical stances.

Mods here would rather just dish our code of conduct strikes for disagreeing. That's how far this site has fallen.