It would be great if we could add people to the watchlist/watch now notifications. That way we’d get notified if an actor we follow is going to be in a new movie/show or a director has something new they’re working on.
That way we could immediately add the new movie/show to our watchlist and it would be included in the email digests/notifications.
I do really like this idea.
FWIW I currently achieve this by having a list on mdblist for some directors and cast. You can even exclude certain cast members if you so choose. If one chooses to syncing that list here with Trakt is easily accomplished too.
I’d love this for directors.
I want to know when a director I like has a new film coming out, especially if they’re a foreign language director and getting info on their new films isn’t so easy.
I think this is an interesting idea. Would you expect that anything that the person is involved in would then automatically be added to your watchlist? Or would you prefer a sort of separate feature where you can “follow” the person and be notified separately of their upcoming movies/shows?
Sort of a Follow type feature, with the ability to add to Watchlist from the notification.
A fully fleshed out feature of Watch now is notifications of release/streaming.
For example:
User would “Follow” Keanu Reeves
User notified when Keanu is in a new movie.
- User can either add to watchlist from the notification (mobile) or go to the movie’s Trakt page to see further details.
If the user adds to watchlist then:
User is notified when release date (theatrical and/or streaming) is announced
User is notified when the movie is released/available
NOTE: users might want to have control over notification options, such as “all updates” (pre-production, post production, cancellation, ect) or only “major updates” (announcement, release date and release or cancellation).
Currently I have a private list just called People. I have to manually check for new releases, every now and again, which is a pain. This would allow people to keep up with their favorite actors and directors, and automatically add new movies/shows to their watchlist.
Edit: Oh, I just had another idea! Maybe there can be a “Following” section on the dashboard? If a user follows a lot of actors/directors and/or doesn’t want notifications. There would be a central location in Trakt to go to for news and updates.
I would like that, for actors and directors (and maybe other crew members as well).
I like the Follow option, because I could literally follow more than 100 people/directors/actors etc…and for free people it would just be one more “List” limitation for them to complain about the 100 limit. So, as long as you (Trakt) don’t limit how many you can follow, this is the better option.
I regularly check some of my favorite actors pages on here…so that I can look for shows/movies to watch that I wasn’t aware of…for instance I didn’t know Tom Cruise was in an older 1983 movie called “All the Right Moves”.