By BROOKS BARNES

„LOS ANGELES — Hollywood has long known that women are better customers than men. It’s right there in the annual reports from the Motion Picture Association of America: Moviegoing in the United States and Canada was 52 percent female last year. Just as it was five years earlier.

So why are studios only now pumping out female-focused megamovies?

Over the past year, “Gravity,” “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “Frozen” and “Maleficent” have taken in a combined $3.6 billion worldwide, according to the database Box Office Mojo. Coming up, Warner Bros. is finally taking a flier on Wonder Woman, and Columbia Pictures is hot on an all-female remake of “Ghostbusters.” Disney has enormous hopes for a live-action “Cinderella,” arriving March 13.“   –   Zum Artikel:

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