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Female Protagonists Featured in Record Number of Films in 2024, Study Finds
A new study finds that the same percentage of Hollywood films in 2024 featured female protagonists as those that had male protagonists.
Films such as ‘The Substance’ pushed back hard against a culture that considers women disposable,” Martha Lauzen, founder of the center and the study’s author, said in a statement. “The Substance,” which features an actress turned fitness guru who is fired because she is middle aged, has struck a chord in Hollywood for a reason. To determine its findings, the report focused on protagonists from whose perspective the story is told, and because it is only looking at the top 100 films, a relatively tiny sample size, small fluctuations alter the number dramatically.
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