# Improve movie release dates

**URL:** <https://discuss.seriesgui.de/t/improve-movie-release-dates/2449>\
**Category:** Ideas and Suggestions\
**Created:** [January 14, 2025, 9:12pm UTC](https://discuss.seriesgui.de/t/improve-movie-release-dates/2449 "2025-01-14T21:12:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![uwe](https://discuss.seriesgui.de/user_avatar/discuss.seriesgui.de/uwe/32/1786_2.png) [@uwe](https://discuss.seriesgui.de/u/uwe)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.seriesgui.de/t/improve-movie-release-dates/2449/2 "2025-01-30T07:38:18Z")

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Thanks.

This is because TMDB decides what date to provide when doing a search. For the movie details screen SeriesGuide can afford to download all release dates of a movie from TMDB and pick one that makes sense (but there are limitations). See the code documentation:

> <https://github.com/UweTrottmann/SeriesGuide/blob/42dab71e1509dc5bece090ca4f84a9d274abfb39/app/src/main/java/com/battlelancer/seriesguide/movies/tools/MovieTools2.kt#L13-L16>

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