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Go woke, go broke'? New study challenges claims progressive films flop at the box office

Diverse casting can boost horror, sports and music films, but heavy-handed politics or rewriting legacy characters risks significant box-office losses for big-budget blockbusters.

fromwww.standard.co.uk

3 weeks ago

From the call centre to the BAFTAs: A story of remarkable transformation

One employer asked him, Have you thought about taking elocution lessons? Others told him his film ideas which explored diversity in innovative ways - were a bit niche. I was 28 and at the end of my tether, he recalled. I was working a minimum wage job in a call centre, my life on hold, trying to break into TV. But the industry felt very Oxbridge and very white dominated by people with cut-glass BBC accents.

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Go woke, go broke'? New study challenges claims progressive films flop at the box office

From the call centre to the BAFTAs: A story of remarkable transformation

#diversity-and-representation
#diversity-and-representation