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Films more likely to star an actor called Chris or a talking animal than a woman over 60, study finds (www.theguardian.com)

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Box office hit films are four times more likely to star a talking animal than a woman over 60, according to a new survey by Age Without Limits.

The anti-ageism campaign studied the 100 highest performing films released in the UK in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and found that while five starred an older woman, about 20 featured creatures who chat.

Meanwhile six starred a male actor called Chris – of which Chris Pratt accounted for half.

However, while two of the remaining Chris instances (Pine and Hemsworth) headlined big budget blockbusters, the sixth – Christian Friedel – was co-lead in an acclaimed arthouse film: Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest (2024). Friedel is known only to his friends as Chris.

The five films starring an older woman that made the top 100 chart in the UK over the three year period were Allelujah (2023), My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (2023), Book Club: The Next Chapter (2023), The Substance (2024) and Freakier Friday (2025).

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[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 4 points 33 minutes ago

Not saying they're wrong about the issue, but that seems like an almost deliberately small selection of films over a fairly short time frame in movie-making terms. Feels a bit like cooking the books.

[–] Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.app 8 points 1 hour ago

That's nothing, the most common letter in the titles of the 20 highest-grossing movies of the last decade is "A", therefore a movie with nothing but "A"s in the title is a surefire moneymaker!