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I can see that, lewis. But I would say it does no harm and does create a great dealof benefit. First it will obviate the need for a posting such as was recently done. Secondly giving it its own home also precludes some confusion caused by the rule stating that theatrical release/distributor takes the top spot but there is not always an identified distributor, particularly if one of the major production studios is serving both positions, which is by far the most common.

Another point would be that this would free up one of the slots for Production Company, and many modern films now have multiple production companies involved (esp. international co-productions).

As for the answer to companies performing both roles, enter them in both slots.  That seems easy.

Quoting TheMadMartian:

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I think this will needlessly complicate things.  The better solution, in my opinion, would be a change to the rules...from what we have to 'copy the studios in the order credited' and give us a few more slots to enter names.

Totally agree. Most users probably have a hard time knowing exactly which studios are actually theatrical release studios. I know I often do. And I never understood why the correct order was such a big deal anyway.

Quoting Danae Cassandra:

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As for the answer to companies performing both roles, enter them in both slots.  That seems easy.

That wasn't exactly my problem.
My problem was how to tell if they should be placed in both slots or just in one, if the credit merely is "XYZ presents"

Is it that I'm expressing myself not precise enough, or is it that you don't want to understand me?

OK, I'll try to give a better example:

Credits are:

XYZ presents

in association with 123 Productions

a x2z Production

for x2z it's easy, it would belong into the Production slot.
For the two others, using only the Studio-credits, it's impossible to say if they are only Release companies, or if they were involved in the production too. To find out which you'd have to check each and every Producer-credit and see for which company the person worked at this time.

Quoting Winston Smith:

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Lewis

Just dealing with the hypothetical data and no more specific info. I would say there is a probability that xyz would be theatrical release/distributor.

I thought we went on data, not probabilities?

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That means simply, its likely, I could not determine with certainty without morebingo, Sam.

What? 

Regardless of what morebingo is, I believe Sam's point is that there will be many cases where you have to guess.