‘Wicked’ and ‘The Substance’ Among 30 Films Awarded ReFrame’s Stamp for Gender-Balanced Productions

variety.com:

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor ReFrame and IMDbPro 2024 ReFrame Report on Gender and Hiring in Film shows that 30 out of the 100 most popular films of 2024 received the ReFrame “stamp” for gender-balanced productions.

Among those films are “Wicked,” “The Substance” and “Emilia Perez.” The 2024 ReFrame Report on Gender and Hiring in Film suggests that despite little improvement in gender-balanced hiring over the last five years and lower budgets being allocated to these projects, Stamped films deliver at the box office.

Findings also show that significant progress towards parity was made on camera, with little change made behind the camera in both above- and below-the-line roles.

Since the brief climb captured in the first few years of the report between 2017 and 2019, progress for parity in feature films has stalled, with 30% or fewer projects receiving the ReFrame Stamp for the past five years.