February was slipping away, one day at a time!
Yet in Dragon Country's film market, Castle in the Sky continued to maintain daily box office returns well above everyone's expectations!
When Castle in the Sky earned 900 million in a single day, everyone thought it was probably just an isolated fluke and that the film would surely lose steam afterward. When its first-week box office passed three billion, major agencies across Dragon Country hurriedly raised their projections for the film to over five billion!
But by then, everyone understood that the Spring Festival Season was over. The strength of the holiday release window lay in its first seven days, when the entire country was on vacation. Once people went back to work, how many would still have time to see a movie?
And yet, by the end of February—on a weekday, no less—and half a month after its release, Castle in the Sky had reached a total box office of 4.5 billion, while its daily earnings remained above 200 million...
At last, people began to realize something was off!
Why did this film have such incredible staying power?
The situation was almost exactly like when Spirited Away first came out. Even on the day it left theaters, its daily box office was still above 20 million. It had run for nearly two months in total, ultimately raking in a staggering 8.4 billion in Dragon Country's film industry!
Spirited Away had earned so much because it had such incredible staying power!
And Castle in the Sky... was now showing signs of doing the same!
By the end of February, Castle in the Sky's daily box office was actually higher than it had been a few days earlier?
The film's bizarre box office growth curve left many people in the industry utterly