We're all too ready to announce something as a seismic shift in cinema. No matter how inane, every new bit of tech or unexpected box office hit gets immediately gets jumped on and trumpeted as something that is going to change how we watch/make/discuss movies forever. Then a couple of years after its impact is at best negligible. Nowhere is this best scene than with inexplicable juggernaut Avatar. When James Cameron's space romance hit after years of hype and offering up more new technology than a whole week of Black Friday, it was instantly called a game changer. Motion capture, 3D, Cameron's bank account - nothing was going to be the same again. Except after the excitement died down it turned out the cinematic landscape had been left mostly unbulldozered, leaving us only with a sense of bemusement that blue cats became the highest grossing film ever made. Warcraft looks kinda like it, I guess, but that's the limit of its influence. But when you look forward over the next twelve months, however, and it looks like we're in for some genuinely big shake ups. From the future of a single franchise to complete redefinitions of what a movie is, here are eight ways film will look very different come the end of 2016.
