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EXCLUSIVE: The Last of Us and The Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal leads IMDb's list of the Top 10 Stars of 2023, the website announced today. Also making the cut are such talent across TV and film as Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Margot Robbie, Jenna Ortega and Carla Gugino. The Top 10 list is bookended by Oppenheimer's…

UPDATED with IMDb statememt: In a major victory for SAG-AFTRA and GLAAD, IMDb has initiated a new policy that will allow industry professionals to remove their dates of birth, birth names and other demographic information from its IMDb and IMDbPro sites. SAG-AFTRA long had maintained that publishing…

UPDATED, 3:48 PM: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today sided with a lower court’s ruling that a California law barring websites like IMDbPro from disclosing actors’ ages is unconstitutional. Read details of the case below. Sponsored by SAG-AFTRA, AB 1687 requires subscription-based entertainment casting/hiring…

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today sided with a lower court's ruling that a California law barring websites like IMDbPro from disclosing actors' ages is unconstitutional. Read details of the case below. Sponsored by SAG-AFTRA, AB 1687 requires subscription-based entertainment casting/hiring databases to remove…

IMDb is jumping into the podcast game with its first-ever podcast Movies That Changed My Life. The weekly podcast, which kicked off with guest Jeffrey Wright (Westworld), will feature celebrities and filmmakers discussing the movies that inspired them with host Ian de Borja. Movies That Changed My Life guests also…

EXCLUSIVE: The Producers Guild and industry database IMDbPro are teaming on a collaboration that includes adding the PGA’s Producers Mark certification alongside names of credited producers on IMDb and IMDbPro’s name and title pages. The initiative kicks off Wednesday with the mark now live for qualifying PGA Award nom…

On Monday, IMDb revised its policy in regards to the publication of removal of birth names after the backlash for publishing the birth names of transgender performers without their consent — also known as “deadnaming”. Prior to the revisions, performers issued complaints about the difficulty in removing birth names…

IMDb has revised its pre-existing policy in regards to the publication of removal of birth names. The revisit to the policy was a result of the backlash the site received earlier this year for publishing the birth names of transgender performers without their consent. The practice is known as “deadnaming”, the outing…

EXCLUSIVE: IMDb announced its first-ever scripted series You’re Not a Monster featuring the voices of Kelsey Grammer, Eric Stonestreet, Aparna Nancherla, Ellie Kemper, Patton Oswalt and others. The animated series is set to premiere this fall, but IMDb will give a sneak peek of the new show featuring iconic movie…

Several national LGBTQ advocacy groups have joined SAG-AFTRA in its appeal of a federal court ruling that a union-backed state law prohibiting IMDbPro from publishing actors' ages was unconstitutional. The union claimed that publishing the ages of actors contributed to age discrimination in the industry. In joining…

IMDb announced today that its free streaming video channel, IMDb TV, is tripling its content offerings by adding thousands of new titles to the ad-supported service in the coming months. Additionally,the service will launch in Europe later this year. "With IMDb TV, viewers have discovered TV the way it ought to be – a…

UPDATED with full statement from IMDb. IMDb is getting dragged for publishing the birth names of trans actors without their permission. Known as “deadnaming”, the outing of their birth names can bring about stress and possibly lead to harassment and discrimination. Two anonymous trans actors told IndieWire that they…