On the first day of the Lunar New Year, after reviewing each film's attendance rate and audience ratings, cinemas across the Dragon Country decided how many screenings each would get on the second day.
Castle in the Sky jumped from 25 percent of screenings on its opening day to 41 percent on the second.
Movie producers across the country could only sigh when they saw the numbers. They understood that, barring any surprises, the rankings for the Spring Festival Season box office were already clear from the second day's screening allocations. The higher a film ranked, the higher its box office would likely be.
The films released during this holiday season were generally all above average. In practice, the screening share reflected how much moviegoers supported each film. If a film got 10 percent of the screenings, it would usually take around 10 percent of the day's total box office.
But some outstanding films could take only 10 percent of the screenings and still claim 20 percent of the day's box office. That was something else entirely.
In the Parallel World, why had Wolf Warrior 2 and Nezha suddenly become huge hits? Because that was exactly what had happened after they opened. Their screening shares were low, but their theaters were packed. Cinemas weren't stupid. If one screening of a film brought in ten thousand, why would they show a film that only earned three thousand?
So when Castle in the Sky's second-day box office numbers came out,
the people working in the Dragon Country film industry fell even quieter than they had after the first day.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the Dragon Country's total box office reached 1.6 billion for the day. Castle in the Sky had only 41 percent of the screenings, yet