Motion picture films may still be shot on film stock—for a while. And, remember, that advances for the motion picture industry and commercial photography have always given the fine art photographer and hobbyist many benefits. Soon, motion pictures will not be distributed by film but in digital format, transmitted to satellite right to the movie theater. It still hurts to see a company of the caliber that Kodak once was and still is suffer in the marketplace.
"Motion picture films may still be shot on film stock—for a while. And, remember, that advances for the motion picture industry and commercial photography have always given the fine art photographer and hobbyist many benefits. Soon, motion pictures will not be distributed by film but in digital format, transmitted to satellite right to the movie theater. It still hurts to see a company of the caliber that Kodak once was and still is suffer in the marketplace."
They may remian shot on film for a while, but as you point out, distribution (where the huge bulk of film stock from Kodak etc is used) will be digital - but probably not to the theatres. The theatres (and blockbusters) are dying - witness the failure of Cinderella Man this summer as a prime example.
cf this succinct recent descritpion:
"The MPAA and the studios have
utterly, completely, dropped the ball on this and they do not seem to
realize. The reason for their incredibly delayed entry into streaming
movies is simply that they are waiting for Digital Rights Management
to be acceptable to them. Intel is about to introduce chip-level DRM
later this year, which will undoubtedly go into the intel Macs, at
which point Steve Jobs (he runs Pixar, remember) will introduce some
kind of streaming movie service modeled on and probably integrated
with iTunes. This will be combined with a wireless video streaming
box which will send HD pictures from your computer to your TV. This
is why you should buy Apple stock now, or even better in six months
when it tanks because of poor sales of the PowerPC macs.
The studios are rightly terrified of what this will mean because
their stranglehold on distribution will be largely gone. The only
person who is ahead of the curve on this is Mark Cuban and his 2929
prodco (google for this and you'll see what I mean).....
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=21460472
either way, big changes are already coming to the movie industry which will certainly lead to significantly less film used in distribution, whatever happens at the production end.
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