Movies - How long do think(if ever) before "all movies" are made entirely through CGI?

[Herb]

Computer generated imagery , and also virtual actors.

[Lightmass]

It probably won't be long. Look at movies like 300, Sin City, The Spirit and Beowulf which was done completely with CGI.

[Conner]

CGI, well quite a way I think. Theres actully not that many films which are pure CGI. I can only think of Final Fantasy: The Spirits within, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Renaissance. Unless your talking about the type of CGI that kids movies are becomming (Toy Story, Monsters Inc, Cars etc). They are becomming popular.

[Meilien]

It won't happen. Independent movies will always use actors because they are cheaper than CGI, and because purists will reject all CGI features.

Student and art house films will also stick with live action for the sake of art, and because CGI film making requires expensive equipment and a lot of skill.

[wolvertrampton]

It won't happen, because that would eliminate actors.

The readers of HEAT magazine, tabloid papers and the unemployed viewers of daytime telly need their celebrities so they can enjoy vicarious life without having to get one of their own.

Taking away celebrities would enrage the proletariat masses and cause civic unrest.

CGI will certainly become more and more popular for landscapes when trying to depict places that don't exist anymore/never existed/are simply fantastical, but the actor element - particularly physical interaction - will always be real.