10 Upcoming Trends That Will Change Movies Forever

7. The Death Of Physical Film

The digital revolution has been taking over the movie industry for the last decade in particular, in which shooting on physical film is largely reserved for perfectionist auteurs like Christopher Nolan. Furthermore, 35mm movie projection has taken a nosedive, with most modern cinemas opting to display movies via digital movie files which simply require a technician to drag-and-drop clips from a hard drive to the cinema's computer system. Depending on your viewpoint, it's either nature taking its course or a tragedy: on one hand, film holds a majestic, nostalgic quality for many and has many benefits image quality-wise, whereas digital is cheap and democratises the medium, as it essentially allows anyone with an inexpensive (relative to film) Canon camera to shoot professional, 1080p movies and upload them online if they so wish. In the coming years, much to the dismay of filmmakers such as Nolan, Paul Thomas Anderson and Quentin Tarantino, film will continue to die off and become increasingly specialist, because the benefits of digital to the studio and the readiness with which filmmakers have adopted it simply makes it too enticing a proposition. One hopes a 70-year-old Nolan is still making movies his way, but even he may have to yield eventually.