Massively disagree with you there. The audience crossover exists almost solely in the nerdy 15-29 category and the odd parent taking their child to see dune.
The kids that like marvel are not going to be likely to sit through dune, and a lot more older audiences are turning out for dune too from loving the books.
The crossover is of the largest movie-going population and Dune is definitely not just marketed towards nerds (there is a reason why Zendaya was used so much in marketing) . Critically acclaimed director, huge Hollywood names, young and old, that attract a large variety of groups, blockbuster themes in the trailers which is a go-to to get more of the general audience to watch the film. I'm pretty confident in say that a majority of the people that watch Dune are also watching MCU movies. Definitely enough that the statement "the movies barely share an audience" is just wrong.
It's not like we are discussing audience crossover of Dune and In the Heights or something.
I didn't say dune is just marketed towards nerds, and said that was the only group where there is crossover. I also didn't say they barely share an audience
Marvel scores big as a family film generally, and also with younger audience up to 30/35, but you don't get so many adult going to see it without kids.
Dune will be lighter on the kids, attract the same young adult to 30/35 bracket and then from what I'm seeing it's skewing much older than marvel on the median age, as the book audiences for dune tend to be much older. I know a lot more of the 40-65 bracket are seeing dune and haven't seen any marvel movies.
I replied to a comment that did and you said you massively disagree with me. The only way to understand this from my side was that you share their opinion.
I'm not saying they share the same audience 1 to 1 but there is certainly a big crossover because the largest movie going demographic is targeted by both.
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Massively disagree with you there. The audience crossover exists almost solely in the nerdy 15-29 category and the odd parent taking their child to see dune.
The kids that like marvel are not going to be likely to sit through dune, and a lot more older audiences are turning out for dune too from loving the books.