I think this is genuinely fascinating - I really appreciate that Zhang has acknowledged the realities of how volatile and unpredictable the film industry is. But this kind of data would still be useful in terms of focusing our limited distribution budgets on very specific markets that have a higher statistical likelihood to provide an audience.

Thanks to NFS for reaching out to Mr Zhang to provide this analysis, it's genuinely fascinating, and great to see people striving to find more reliable ways of analysing data for filmmakers' benefit.