For the first time in recent history, the percentage of top-grossing films featuring female protagonists equaled the ...

NEW YORK — (AP) — For the first time in recent history, the percentage of top-grossing films featuring female protagonists equaled the percentage of films with male protagonists, according to ...

1 film of the year, Disney’s ‘Inside Out 2.’” “We have always known that female-identified leads would make money,” she continued. “This is not the result of an economic awakening ...

In 2024 the percentage of top-grossing films featuring female protagonists matched the percentage of films with male protagonists for the first time in recent history. According to the latest ...

In those 25 movies, the lead or co-leads were 38.% Black, 15.4% Asian or Asian American and 3.9% Hispanic. That was a substantial decrease from 2023, when 37 leads or co-leads were people of color.

female-led action movies are more often than not ... an action heroine is the one where she isn’t actually the lead, while the movie that sometimes gets dismissed as a “damsel in distress ...