They don’t *know* as such. But they have a pretty good idea from decades of practice and the schedule has some slack built in for when minor things do go wrong.
If something major happens (COVID-19, someone vital throws a hissy fit and storms off, the stages burn down…) then the schedule just gets changed. But since this knocks on to planning by cinemas, marketing, etc it’s generally avoided as far as possible.
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