The target audience of most movies is middle class Americans, of whom a shrinking majority are white, as this is the largest audience with the disposable income to go to theaters and buy DVDs. To garner viewership, their will probably be a main character who the audience can relate to and hope to succeed. As the majority of the audience will probably white, a way to make this character more identifiable is to have he/she be white. In fact, almost any movie aimed at a broad audience will have white protaganist besides martial arts films (No white guy besides Chuck Norris knows kung fu), and anything with Samual L Jackson (Playing an angry black man who can beat everything up). Even if most of the cast is another race, the white guy will be the hero.
Spoiler for all horror films: black guy dies first and white woman is the only survivor
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