im mostly ignorant when it comes to CNY box office workings, but it seems like a worthwhile question
last week, avatar still had over 100k screenings and was only making 2-3 million a day, most people believe that has a lot to do with covid, now a week later CNY new year comes around and we get 2 500 million plus grossers with one threatening 700 million, all the while its possible this year's CNY box office haul surpasees last year's non-covid affected one
Cant imagine things have changed too much since last week, so I ask, if covid was somewhat under control why wasnt avatar grossing 10-20 million a day; the types of daily grosses that would correspond with many of our pre-release no covid predictions
Is it simply a matter of us overstimating how much interest the chinese people have for avatar? was the ceiling 500 million instead of 1 billion? or is it just CNY machinations which resulted in avatar not getting super numbers when the worst of covid passed, what type of gross could we have expected from avatar if it had as many screenings as wandering earth 2 over CNY?