See the next post, where George Lucas says Star Wars is aimed at middle schoolers...seriously, sources could be multiplied exponentially, Hollywood has been setting male teens as their target demographic for decades, and successfully: non-teens who like Star Wars are a nice to have, not the target audience.
Who is the D&D movie made for? Who are the Marvel movies for?
The D&D movie is aimed at adults for sure. Quite literally 75% of D&D players are adults. The comic book movies are probably the same. I saw more adults coming in to the comic book store a buddy managed and buying tons of comics to collect than kids. The movies are clearly geared more towards adults with the themes chosen.
I would have thought they were teen movies myself. So, what makes them adult and how does that apply to d&d?
That more of a sign of the problems with comic book stores business than the audience of Hollywood movies. My local FLGS/comic shop aims at kids and teens pretty heavily, at least.
According to the numbers @Parmandur showed in the article he linked, adults were the majority of sales for the D&D movie, as you'd expect when 75% of your players are adults.
but most movie goers are on the younger side though
www.cinemablend.com
The one that showed that 59% of ticket buyers were 18-34 year olds, i.e. teens and tweens...?
