A new study found examining the best films of 2024 that Hollywood Retreat On the efforts of diversity.
On Thursday, the release of the UCL Hollywood Diversity report, which was released on Thursday, decided that the percentage of colored people working in the main entertainment roles that decreased compared to their white counterparts in each region from 2023 to 2024. This is despite the results that also show that films that reflect a diversity in the real world that work better.
“last year“In 2024, he witnessed a widespread reflection, as film studios fell from ethnic and ethnic diversity in front of the camera and its successor,” said Anna Christina Ramon, co -founder of the report and director of the Entertainment and Media Research Initiative at the University of California, Los Angeles.
She studied the latest study at the University of California in Los Angeles 104 from the best theatrical publications in English from 2024 to analyze the demographics of actors, writers, managers and even ticket buyers. The study tracked the personal and local box office characters as well as the types of films.
The researchers found that among the best films, those who have more racist actors tend to perform better at the global box office than those that have less diverse templates. Films that have 41-50 % of the team members are colored people-“”evil“” “Godzilla X Kong: The New EmpireAnd “and”Quiet place: The first day– The highest international box office profits are found. These films also tend to be released in more international markets.
Likewise, the study decided that the majority of cinema pioneers who maintain the industry standing on its feet are colored people. COLOR cinema pioneers who bought most of the local tickets in the opening week of the seven of the 10 best films and 12 of the best 20 films were released in theaters in 2024.
“Diversity is a major part of the big financial image,” said Jade Abston, one of the authors participating in the study and doctoral candidate in cinematic and media studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, in a statement. “Diversity goes. When the film lacks various faces and views, it is not attractive here and outside.”
Despite these results, the study showed that colored persons remain an actress an acting with the leadership of films, managers, writers and classic actors in these Hollywood films. The colored actors represented 25.2 % of the lead roles on the top theatrical films for 2024, which decreased from 29.2 % in 2023. People explain 44.3 % of the population of the United States.
The number of films made by people of colors decreased in 2024 compared to 2023. The color managers reached 20.2 % from 2024 films, compared to 22.9 % of films in the previous year.
These results come in the middle Shrink This has reduced the number of Hollywood products, its functions, as well as the current trend of companies Studios declining diversity, stocks and inclusion efforts In the wake of President Trump’s return to his post.
“Writing was on the wall, as we saw earlier Loss of executive positions Darnell Hunt, co -founder of the report and executive adviser and abundance at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the programs that focused on diversity. “For studios, it seems that it was not about investing in what our data showed profitable. They went with what they considered safe.”
The study found some positive trends. After two years of decline, women formed 47.6 % of the main artists in 2024 – closer to equal with men compared to 2023 (32.1 % of expected customers). Meanwhile, the outputs constituted 15.4 % of films in 2024, which is similar to the results of the previous year by 14.7 %.
Read the full report here.
