I for one would be interested to see the audience broken down by demographics—more specifically, how many older (Xer/Boomer) viewers, and how many in the heartland as opposed to the coasts. I suspect there is a lesson Hollywood doesn’t want to learn, that there is a massive audience who would go to the movies regularly, if there were movies such as this one that regularly represented their values, meaning American values.
Actually, from what I’ve been reading, this movie is appealing to all segments of the population everywhere from NYC to Cornville, Nebraska, which proves that the most important thing to most people about a movie is that it brilliantly tells a compelling story that resonates with universal human values, regardless of what the story is about. That’s the REAL lesson that Hollywood should learn: people will pay to see GOOD movies.
At nearly seventy, this old man will likely not be attending a theater to view this movie ... I don’t prefer to break down in tears in public. May God help US, we are laying our collective necks bare to the most evil force on t he planet. And the people behind this destruction of America and American values will not be exposed even by such moving illustrations of their perfidy, because most Americans do not think deeply enough to see why Islamic evil is rising nearly unopposed in ways which will eradicate it.
The following might help a little bit. In today’s “Wall Street Journal”, an article describes the success of this movie is due to veterans and culturally conservative areas. For example, eight of the top ten markets were in the South or Midwest, representing smaller cities. In contrast, it did not do as well in Northeastern U.S. or Canada.
I hope that helps.