Movies With Female-Leads Earn More Money Than Male-Led Movies
Movies are earning more money in Hollywood when they have a female lead character, but despite that, women still aren’t earning as much as men.
By DAVID on December 12, 2018
And this has been happening since 2014, too. Movies with female character leads seem to be earning more cash when they’re in theaters than men-lead movies. Despite that though, there’s still some pay gap.
When looking at movies and box-office earnings between 2014 and 2017, the discovery was made. Specifically, movies that earned more than $100 million. The average earnings for a movie starring men came in around $514 million. However, the average earnings for female-led flicks came in around $586 million. Not bad, ladies! That also goes for the ratio between female-led movies vs. male-led. There were 245 male-led movies used in the data for the study, and only 105 female-led movies.
The highest-paid actors this year: George Clooney made $239 million, though that isn’t all from acting. He sold his share of the tequila brand Casamigos, so we’ll go to second-highest. Dwayne Johnson earned $124 million, mostly from acting. The highest-paid actress of this year was Scarlett Johansson with just $40.5 million. See some more information on the highest-earning movies with female leads, as well as the Hollywood pay gap over here.
