J.G.Levitt believes future of storytelling is video games and not movies (2020)

Video games are an active form of entertainment, while movies are passive. There is a spectrum from forms of entertainment requiring a great deal of active involvement and attention to purely passive entertainment: playing physical sports, board games, competitive video gaming and stuff like day trading, single player video gaming, casually dancing, watching sports with some friends (heightened attention due to emotional involvement), reading a book, watching a movie or a play, listening to a podcast (roughly ranked by how actively involved you need to be to participate).

Activities at roughly the same level of required attention can to some degree replace each other (like how watching a play went from an everyday activity to a niche after movies appeared) but I think we have seen throughout the past century and a half that this doesn't happen when the activities require different levels of attention. The day only has 24 hours, of course, so when a new popular activity appears it may steal some attention from existing popular activites, but I think humans will continue to participate in activities at all the different levels of required attention.

Just like good books continue to be written every year despite not being as culturally dominant as they were in the 19th century and before, good stories will continue to be expressed through the medium if film in the future. It's common to say that video games and movies are suited for different types of stories and while that's true to some degree, I think it's simpler to say that people will continue to make good movies because there will still be an interest in that kind of passive entertainment.

As a side note: I use movies as a shorthand, but I might as well have said movies/TV. As ekianjo said below (above?) "movies are not at the forefront of anything for a long time already" -- not sure I'd fully agree with that, but a lot of attention and storytelling talent has moved to TV because the two mediums have been on a path of convergence in the past 20 years. As TV and movies are roughly the same from the perspective of required attention, it might be that TV comes to dominate and feature-length movies dwindle to a niche scene. Similarly, the popularity of sports and e-sports (one or both) could be threatened if a hybrid (like one of those sci-fi American football 1000 years into the future concepts) appeared.

Movies are not at the forefront of anything for a long time already.

I do think that it depends on the person. Some stories are meant to be told in movies. But if the story is interactive and choices matter, then it's perfect with video games.

I think once VR hits product market fit I think it's lights out for cinema and conventional movies by extension.

its been the case for at least the past 5 years. the last thing people ever talked about in movies was avatar 10 years ago.