When photography first became viable there were proclamations that painting was dead.

When color slide film first became available there were proclamations that black and white film was dead.

When color print film became viable there were proclamations that slide film was dead.

With the benefit of history we know that not one of those proclamations came to pass. In fact in all three cases there were more choices for each of these so-called dead processes than ever before. As of 2008 the major movie studios are still using film, even though George Lucas declared digital the only way to go with the Star Wars movies.

This type of zealot behavior when new things appear is not limited to photography. Check out predications like CDs killing the vinyl record which not only didn't happen but demand for vinyl remains fairly constant right now while demand for CDs is plummeting. In the 1990's all the experts said that the internet was going to kill TV. One of my personal favorites was that in the 1970's computer experts predicated the end of paper records in businesses due to computer automation---don't think I need to comment on that.

Along with dozens of other reasons currently there is no direct replacement for large format sheet film. A low resolution digital scan of a a piece of 4x5 film is about 28 megapixels and a decent scan is about 90. Compare the amount of information available for a print just in simple numbers. Then we can start a discussion about the print quality that Ansel Adams got from 8x10 film...

Add to the numbers game the ability to control image perspective with a view camera in ways that can not be mimicked by any tricks in Photoshop.

So film is back in the hands of the serious photographers and will be with us for a long long time. Will definitely still be around long after those gold CDs begin to delaminate or are no longer compatible with your new computer! (Remember floppy discs?) Ultimately film will likely join the other so-called alternative photographic processes.