Not necessarily: Game of Thrones’ final season earned about $525 million for HBO. That is more than the box office returns of both It: Chapter Two and Ant-Man, two big blockbuster film franchises. TV is no longer the small fry of entertainment. TV now earns billions of dollars for the studios involved, just like film does.
It still means that TV stars earned a more than comparable amount for the last season of their show to what a famous and acclaimed film actress did for starring in one of the major summer blockbusters of 2019. But we’ll just agree to disagree as I don’t want to keep detailing the thread.
The main point I was making was, again, that legacy characters getting streaming shows is not a sign of “disinterest” because the lines between TV and film have never been more blurred than they are today.