Director Steven Spielberg's Cold War saga - Bridge of Spies, that stars the actor who is known for his roles in Apollo 13, Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan - Tom Hanks, went out to a solid $15 million start this weekend - but the film drew an aging audience.
It turns out, the film got off with an unusual 89 percent of the crowd that was over the age of 25, while the 43 percent was over the age of 50. For the sake of comparison, on a typical superhero flick, more than half of the moviegoers were generally over 25.
However, the Bridge of Spies movie came in third at $15 million, after the computer-animated horror comedy film - "Goosebumps" and director Ridley Scott's science fiction film - "The Martian."
Rentrak's senior analyst - Paul Dergarabedian, stated as he referred to the U2 pilot portrayed by the American actor and filmmaker Tom Hanks in a spy exchange with the Soviets - "Introduce me to one teenager who knows who Francis Gary Powers is, and I'll give you a million bucks."
Putting the matter in perspective, the science fiction adventure film Jurassic World, which Spielberg produced, drew an audience that was 60 percent over 25 years old and there were plenty of fanatics of the first film - the 1993 "Jurassic" movie.
Appealing to an older crowd can work in the movies of the film production company DreamWorks, distributed by Disney. Director Steven Spielberg, who once showed great pleasure in creating children's feature films with the likes of the 1982 science fiction-family film "ET" - has lately moved away from these into a more serious, historical stories, including the British-American war drama film "War Horse" and the 2012 American epic historical drama film - "Lincoln," both of which drew mainly mature crowds.
In addition, the audience for the biographical survival thriller film "Captain Phillips," which also starred Tom Hanks, got 88 percent of audience over 25 years old.
