This question was posed by a reader to film data hound Stephen Follows. It's interesting because it speaks to the significance of the creative voice(s) behind films and how they connect with us as viewers.
The actual question was, "Do female audiences respond more positively to feature films that have at their heart a female creative team? In particular, a female director and writer".
Follows used data on 1,733 movies released in UK cinemas between 2000 and 2021, for which he has both audience gender data and filmmaker gender data.
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