The rules are pretty straightforward on this:

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Country of Origin (COO)
Enter the country in which the main feature's primary production company is based.

That said, locally, i change a lot of films CoO to match how the film feels.  For example Jane Austen-based films i change to United Kingdom.  Regardless of the production company some films just make me think of a certain country.

But that is just local.

I have spent a little time researching Allan Zeman Productions and it seems his business has been run out of Hong Kong for the past 30 years: http://www.londonspeakerbureau.co.uk/allan_zeman.aspx.

IMDb does say "Allan Zeman Productions [us]" but lists the Production Companies in the following order: "Country: UK | Canada | Romania | USA": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0429573/

Paragraph 11: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lionsgate-and-after-dark-films-forge-three-year-production-and-distribution-deal-57180442.html.

Edit: How does one find where the primary production company is based? Is there a professional directory that lists this data?

Quoting Kathy:

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I have contributed data for An American Haunting: Unrated Edition UPC 012236-201410. The end credits list the CoOs as a co-production of United Kingdom, Canada & Romania: DVD credits @1:29:49. There is no mention of the United States in the credits that I could find.

Since our primary source is the disc/film itself, I think you are correct in listing UK.

Over the past few years there have been proposals on how to deal with multinational co-productions, but unfortunately none of these has made it into the programme and the rules so far. E.g. personally I would favour a checkbox approach, exactly like we already have for subtitles, so you could list all participating countries and the order would become irrelevant.

Until a better solution is found, unfortunately we're stuck with the one field and it will indeed be impossible in some cases to determine a "primary production company". For lack of a better alternative, I leave the field blank in such cases.

"X presents a Y production/film" usually means that X is the distribution company and Y is the production company. Maybe the film makers do not believe that the distributor (and maybe financing company as well) influences the CoO. And I would agree. Midsummer Films is the producer and Alan Zeman Productions the distributor. Is Midsummer Films UK based?

I have decided to leave the contribution as I have submitted it. I did add an edit last night directing the screeners to this thread.

Thank you for all the help.

I have a question.  Since the lines of countries are getting blurred for the movie/film industry, is the COO field something that is truly necessary to track. 

I guess my question is, how many people feel that the COO is necessary/worthwhile?

Like dee1959jay I would answer your question with YES as well for the same reason. I think it's a valuable addition but I would like to see a checkbox for multiple CoOs.