Blockbuster roles, thanks to the female main

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No woman films, but good films Glenn Close invited at the Golden Globes. A study shows that Hollywood is on a good way: After that movies achieve with strong women images, the best results.

  • Heroines of cinema cash registers ring

    Gal Gardot is Wonder Woman

    The comic book adaptation from the year 2017 is part of the DC Extended Universe. With Gal Gadot as the main actress of the Film by many critics was regarded as a feminist Manifesto. After its cinema release, the Film was ranked the world’s number 1 in the cinema Charts. He played 822 million US dollars. So Wonder Woman, “” the tenth place of the most successful films in 2017.

  • Heroines of cinema cash registers ring

    Rogue One: Felicity Jones is fighting on the death star

    The American Science-Fiction Film “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” was financially second most successful Film of the year 2016. In a study of the U.S. talent Agency CAA and the analysis of the Agency’s Shift 7, whether in a movie more than two women are involved, the talk about something other than men tested. These so-called Bechdel-Test consisted of the “Rogue One”.

  • Heroines of cinema cash registers ring

    The “Black Widow” Scarlett Johansson

    Also, “Avengers: The Age of Ultron” passed the Bechdel Test. The Action Comic book movie from Marvel a played worldwide over 1.4 billion dollars. He is on place eight of the world’s most successful films. Women’s roles should not be reduced to the success of the nice, said the Co-author of the study, Christy Haubegger, in front of the “Los Angeles Times”.

  • Heroines of cinema cash registers ring

    She tames the beast: Emma Watson

    The love-Fantasy-Musical Film from Walt Disney’s “beauty and The beast” from the year 2017, with Emma Watson as Belle played in the world of 1.26 billion US dollars. The Film received two Oscar nominations in the categories of scene design and costume design. He is on place 2 of the most successful films of the year 2017 and ranked 14 of the world’s most successful films of all time.

  • Heroines of cinema cash registers ring

    Concentrated Girl Power: Black Panther

    Florence Kasumba, Angela Bassett, and Letitia Wright play in the US-American Science Fiction action film of the Marvel Studios ‘Black Panther’ proud warriors. The “Time’s Up”-an Initiative against harassment and unequal treatment of women in the film industry criticized in relation to the study, despite the low measurement 40 per cent of the films analysed by favor be latte.

    Author: Ceyda Nurtsch


  • Heroines of cinema cash registers ring

    Gal Gardot is Wonder Woman

    The comic book adaptation from the year 2017 is part of the DC Extended Universe. With Gal Gadot as the main actress of the Film by many critics was regarded as a feminist Manifesto. After its cinema release, the Film was ranked the world’s number 1 in the cinema Charts. He played 822 million US dollars. So Wonder Woman, “” the tenth place of the most successful films in 2017.

  • Heroines of cinema cash registers ring

    Rogue One: Felicity Jones is fighting on the death star

    The American Science-Fiction Film “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” was financially second most successful Film of the year 2016. In a study of the U.S. talent Agency CAA and the analysis of the Agency’s Shift 7, whether in a movie more than two women are involved, the talk about something other than men tested. These so-called Bechdel-Test consisted of the “Rogue One”.

  • Heroines of cinema cash registers ring

    The “Black Widow” Scarlett Johansson

    Also, “Avengers: The Age of Ultron” passed the Bechdel Test. The Action Comic book movie from Marvel a played worldwide over 1.4 billion dollars. He is on place eight of the world’s most successful films. Women’s roles should not be reduced to the success of the nice, said the Co-author of the study, Christy Haubegger, in front of the “Los Angeles Times”.

  • Heroines of cinema cash registers ring

    She tames the beast: Emma Watson

    The love-Fantasy-Musical Film from Walt Disney’s “beauty and The beast” from the year 2017, with Emma Watson as Belle played in the world of 1.26 billion US dollars. The Film received two Oscar nominations in the categories of scene design and costume design. He is on place 2 of the most successful films of the year 2017 and ranked 14 of the world’s most successful films of all time.

  • Heroines of cinema cash registers ring

    Concentrated Girl Power: Black Panther

    Florence Kasumba, Angela Bassett, and Letitia Wright play in the US-American Science Fiction action film of the Marvel Studios ‘Black Panther’ proud warriors. The “Time’s Up”-an Initiative against harassment and unequal treatment of women in the film industry criticized in relation to the study, despite the low measurement 40 per cent of the films analysed by favor be latte.

    Author: Ceyda Nurtsch


Manufacturers of large movie studios do not go with the occupation of new projects, only to Talent, but have also become the question: How popular is an actress? Guaranteed me exactly this actress a large audience?

What is the effect of the Cast actually has on the success of a film at the box office, it is hard to assess: it Would have been a gefloppter Film with a different cast, perhaps more successful?

Also expensive, highly paid stars have not brought so many movie in the past, the hoped-for attention, a lucrative box-office takings, which would have justified the high financial production costs. The business magazine “Forbes” publishes every year a list of actors who have proved to be the true box office poison.

Mismatch between the Gage and sales

Among the overpaid actors, Gage stood in stark disproportion to the revenue of the film, included Sandra Bullock, Adam Sandler, and the formerly Man Sexiest Alive, Johnny Depp. For the works of the Studios of 2016, took only $ 2.80 for every to be paid cash dollars.

The Ranking is of course no indicator of quality. In 2016, Leonardo DiCaprio was not on place eight of the dreaded “Forbes”-list, because his films “The Revenant” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” brought to the box office the hoped-for sales. For both roles, DiCaprio was nominated for the Oscar, for “The Revenant” he took him as “Best actor” to take home.

Strong woman role: Wonder Woman even sends Batman and Superman in the second row.

To be able to in the selection of Cast and, in particular, the lucrative film materials, safe decide, should the film of interest to producers, especially in the United States published a study, according to movies, in which there are strong women’s roles, at the box office particularly well.

350 films from the years 2014 to 2017 were used, of which 105 cinema productions, women in the leading roles, played. Divided into five categories according to the production budget, in all divisions, respectively, films with female main characters at the top of the box office results.

The statements of the study are solely put into perspective insofar that among the largest one-player many Comic follow find film adaptations of the publishing houses Marvel and DC, could also be rich with male super heroes like “Iron Man” and “Thor” a whopping sales once.

Stereotypes do not pay

But also in successful movies with male main a change in roles is evident. For the study, also the non-scientific Bechdel-Test was applied, the female roles valued in feature films and on three questions-based: there Are roles for at least two load-bearing woman? They talk to each other? They talk about something other than a man?

Between 2014 and 2017, achieved eleven films grossing over one billion dollars, including “Jurassic World,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and “Avengers: Age of Ultron”. Not all women are in the foreground, however, all of the eleven films passed the Bechdel Test-a sign that stereotypical representations of gender roles, pay.

The study is based on a survey of the talent Agency CAA on the relationship between sales success and ethnic diversity from the year 2017, which was complemented in the course of the “Time’s up”movement with the new data.

A few movies that have also achieved thanks to its strong images of women of outstanding box office results, can be found in our photo gallery.