Is the dreaded “Franchise era” finally dead?

We’ve been seeing the decline of the big franchise nostalgia bait movies for the last 5 years. but with nothing else in comparison doing well at the box office either it was chalked up to “ theater chains are dying”

WELL with Obsession and Backrooms doing very well (Obsession growing numbers in weeks 2 and 3) out performing Star Wars and what looks like the inevitable bomb that is Masters of the Universe, is this the end of the nostalgia bait era? The industry can’t hide behind the excuse that movie theaters are the problem now that new low budget original movies are going very well and putting asses in seats. Have finally turned the page on the worst era in cinema history?