Minority lead movie production costs in the U.S. 2007-2018
A survey exploring equality in Hollywood revealed the mean production costs of movies with white male leads amounted to 76 million U.S. dollars, more than double the production budgets of movies with underrepresented female leads. The study analyzed the differences in production costs among top-grossing U.S. movies from 2007 to 2018 by race/ethnicity and gender of leads. From 817 live action movies with a single protagonist, those with male leads received the highest budgets.
