Hollywood has known this fact for a long time but they have an agenda. It promotes an agenda through its storytelling that is intended to destroy the family and all of the institutions built around it plus the fact that the quality of the storytelling has diminished significantly over that time period. As a result people have been less inclined to go to the box office to see movies over the past 15 or so years.
Here’s a good example.
Memorial Day movie attendance drops to 17-year low
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100602/D9G2NITO0.html
The last movie I went to see was the re-vamped version of Bladerunner that ran for a month or two in limited theaters. Before that it was Keeping The Faith.
I’ve seen 2 movies this year. Alice and how to train your dragon. And I’m a guy in my 20s.