I don’t see why movies wouldn’t get universal releases on all platforms once smartphones and other distribution channels have saturated the globe, and I can see films being more fluid creations with numerous remixes, but Francis Ford Coppola goes even further when thinking about the future of the medium. From David Robb at Deadline Hollywood:

Francis Ford Coppola can see the future of cinema, and it’s going to be “live,” like a digital play or a virtual opera. Speaking before an overflow crowd at the closing of the Producer Guild‘s Produced By conference, Coppola said he sees a future in which movies will be presented “live” to audiences all around the world at the same time.

With the digital revolution, he said, “movies no longer have to be set in stone and can be composed and interpreted for different audiences that come to see it. Film has always been a recorded medium, but live cinema remixes might be ’30 percent pre-recorded as the actors do it live. You can do anything and you can do it live.”•