New Research Shows Women Buy More Movie Tickets Than Men

 
  
How long have we been hearing the same old story from Hollywood?  "Teenage guys drive movie ticket sales," "Female leads can't carry a movie,"  and the famous "Women don't go to movies."

New research from the MPAA should officially put that last statement to rest.

Melissa Silverstein at Women & Hollywood breaks the news, Guess What?  Women Buy More Movie Tickets Than Men. 

This news should rock each and every executive in Hollywood more than the Bigelow Oscar win.  Cause this is something they understand.  This is money and women are delivering the money.  Big time.

So I am officially holding a funeral for the term “women are not a film market.”  I never want to hear it uttered again.  I am going to keep these statistics next to my computer (or maybe make them my screensaver but that would mean removing my picture of Kathryn Bigelow holding two Oscars) because every time someone says that women don’t go to the movies I’m just going to throw the stats in their faces.

2009 was a banner year for the box office.   Part of that success was due to female centric movies like New Moon and The Blindside. 

Here's a breakdown of the stats:

• In 2009 there were 217 million moviegoers.  The total admissions was 1.4 billion dollars.
• Women are 113 million of the moviegoers and bought 55% of the tickets.
• Men are 104 million of the moviegoers and 45% of the tickets.

Will this have any affect on Hollywood?  If they care about making money, it darn well should.

Now go read the full article - Guess What?  Women Buy More Movie Tickets Than Men.

Comments

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Well this is a surprising news for sure.Thanks so much for the statistics.I have also heard of people saying in the past that women don't frequent the halls like men do but all that will be put to rest now.With this stats coming out,i feel it's going to have an effect on Hollywood now.We can only wait and watch.Women rock!!

[adelaide dancing]

i find that women definitely are more social and are far more likely to attend theatre, music and dance performances!

[oral dental care]

Guess you're right, i'm not a male chauvinist, so, i completely agree with you!

[Lionel Messi]

Anyone surprised?
While women go out, enjoying themselves,We, the men, are sitting in the living room, on the comfortable sofa, enjoying and relaxing with a beer in hand and of course watching great game of soccer, football or basketball.
Meanwhile, let the girls see their movies:)

[Fuminahara]

I have also heard of people saying in the past that women don't frequent the halls like men do but all that will be put to rest now.With this stats coming out,i feel it's going to have an effect on Hollywood now.We can only wait and watch.Women rock!!

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[Presssection10]

This is such great news. Women and girls are also bigger consumers of books than men and boys are.

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That is no surprise that woman are the more frequent movie goers! They are more social and out going then man, also - I must say we are the reason guys go to the cinema- they take us out LOL

[Pure Funk Dance]

I think it means that there are too many chick flicks in theaters!

[Best Dental Surgeon in Philadelphia]

This is not surprising to me though. I just notice this with my girl friend. Most of the time, if there are new movies in cinemas with genres like romance, comedy, thriller or sci-fi, she then buy tickets for two. Not only that she also likes reading books.

Thanks,
-Joe