Increasingly diverse audiences in the U.S. prefer diverse film content. That's the conclusion of UCLA’s latest annual Hollywood Diversity Report released on Thursday.
The 2021 report, subtitled "Pandemic in Progress," pointed to people of color accounting for over 40 percent of the U.S. population and increasingly driving attendance at the multiplex and movie viewership for dominant streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime. "In 2020, people of color accounted for the majority of opening weekend, domestic box office for six of the top 10 films (ranked by global box office) and half of the box office for a seventh top 10 film," the UCLA report stated.
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