As anyone who uses this program knows, cast & crew data are a mess. Popular films can have 100 or so releases worldwide, each with their own data. Ken has talked about a cast & crew overhaul. This is ideal, but a lot of work. Here's something that would get a lot of the benefits, but be far simpler to implement:

Set up data about which releases contain the same movies. Any update to cast, crew and studios will be sent to all releases for that movie, not just the one where it's submitted. You could have it default to assuming that movies with the same original title and production year are the same, but we would need to be able to tweak it to deal with cases where two movies in the same year have the same title or  to prevent conflating different cuts with different credits. We also need to be able to combine TV releases, where the original title is often unclear.

You may also be able to fit color data into this scheme, though you would need a way of dealing with colorized movies.

This would probably get rid of 75% of screener work once the initial fumbling to get things matched up right is done and give better data to everyone.

We could do that the same way we'd separate an extended cut.

Quoting Ace_of_Sevens:

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We also need to be able to combine TV releases, where the original title is often unclear.

My idea here.