Over the weekend, we introduced an enhancement to the way we store and display actors, screenwriters and directors.

In the past, these three types of filmmakers were kept separate in our database. This made things easy for us, but wasn’t the best way to go about it. For instance, users had to do 2 different searches to see all the films Clint Eastwood has starred in or directed. Likewise, there is no reason that the biography or profile picture for “Eastwood the Director” should be different from “Eastwood the Actor”.

Also, we used the opportunity to change the Filmmaker Page, so that you can regenerate and sort on PSIs, rather than just film year. You have to regenerate before the sort, because the PSIs can quickly go out-of-date.

As is the case with all new changes, there will probably be issues we didn’t catch. Some of you already have alerted us to a couple, and we appreciate that. Keep bug reports coming… and I hope you like the new enhancements!