“Bridge of Spies,” the Steven Spielberg-directed Cold War saga starring Tom Hanks, got off to a solid $15 million start this weekend – but it drew an aging crowd.
An unusual 89 percent of the audience was over the age of 25 –and 43 percent was over the age of 50. For comparison’s sake, on a typical superhero movie more than half of the crowd is generally under 25. The movie came in third at $15 million, after “Goosebumps” and “The Martian.”
“Introduce me to one teen-ager who knows who Francis Gary Powers is, and I’ll give you a million bucks,” said Paul Dergarabedian, Rentrak’s senior analyst told TheWrap, referring to the U2 pilot played by Hanks in a spy exchange with the Soviets.