Monetization is the elephant in the room in my opinion. IMDB could easily be a service entirely dedicated to hosting movie metadata as RDF or JSON-LD. They nee

Monetization is the elephant in the room in my opinion. IMDB could easily be a service entirely dedicated to hosting movie metadata as RDF or JSON-LD. They need to fund it though, and the go to seems to be advertising and API access. Advertising means needing human readable UI, not metadata, and if they put data behind an API its a tough sell to use a standardized and potentially limiting format.