Queues of Star Wars fans snaked down the corridors leading to the 500 Ballroom, the place where a state-of-the-art digital projector was screening spectacular and exclusive Episode III footage throughout the day. At the start of the day, Producer Rick McCallum answered questions from the fan audience after each screening.

Many of them touched on the future of Star Wars, particularly the much discussed possibility of a future on televisions. Fans inquired about the chance of a "Young Anakin Chronicles" (set between Episodes I and II), or stories taking place between Episodes III and IV. While McCallum conceded that those could be options, they are only possibilities because no solid development on the television series has started.

"Absolutely none," said McCallum. "There's a process, and we're talking about it... but only gently. We haven't really had a chance to think about anything. We literally just finished [Episode III] on Tuesday. We've started all the foreign mixes. We've got 22,000 prints to make in the next three and a half weeks. We've got 40 countries, I think, we're dubbing into. It's just going to be relentless."

The furor will last until mid-July, McCallum estimates, "and then we'll be able to start thinking about other things." Regarding the distribution of Episode III, McCallum confirmed a plan that has been in the works for months: troops serving overseas in Iraq will be able to see Revenge of the Sith.

Another future project discussed was Star Wars in 3-D. At ShoWest this year, a panel of the leading edge directors - including George Lucas, Robert Rodriguez, Robert Zemeckis, James Cameron and Peter Jackson - impressed upon theatrical exhibitors that the future of big screen lies in 3-D.

"It will happen sometime in the future," said McCallum, explaining that the lack of digital screens across North America is hampering any progress on the project. "Right now the process is very expensive, and there are only a few companies doing it." The process is a postproduction process, through which an older film is scanned and images are separated and dimensionalized digitally. "It's a complete 3-D image without any eyestrain whatsoever. From any seat that you're at," said McCallum. "But there are so few digital theaters, and it's such an expensive process, it just can't happen yet. As soon as we get three thousand digital screens, we can start to make this happen."

As with previous appearances, McCallum stressed the importance of digital cinema and quality theatrical exhibition, expressing dismay with the quality of the typical movie theater experience. "I just saw a 102-inch Samsung plasma screen tested a last week. They're going to be building a 150-inch one by the end of the year. If we don't work together, and if you guys don't complain to your theater owners and really make it vocal, we are going to lose our traditional audience," he warned. "Because, by the time you turn 30, get married, have kids, have to make car payments, all these things... and it costs you $30 to go see a movie, you'll say forget it, just go down to Wal-Mart and by the DVD for ten bucks!"

McCallum continued, "We have to protect and preserve the whole adventure of what it's like on a Friday night when you say to someone you care about, 'What are we going to do tonight?' and you say, 'Let's go to a movie.' We've got to make that whole experience. We have to demand from theater owners that they change the venue, make it more comfortable, make it an environment that people want to go and see a movie with a quality that is inherent in the price you pay to see a film."

One fan asked the same questions he asked three years ago at Celebration II, about the future of Young Indiana Jones on DVD and Indiana Jones IV. "The DVDs we've been working on them for about two years now, and they should be finished in another two years, because we're doing all of them," said McCallum. "The reason why we're so slow is that it really is just us. We're not giving it to a studio or someone else to do them."

As for a fourth Indy film, McCallum made mention that Steven Spielberg just saw Episode III on Tuesday ("and gave us a big thumbs up,") and is gearing up to work on another project in Munich. "He is just yearning to be able to do Indy after that. So, if all things go well, and they're all happy with the script, then it will happen."

McCallum finished that day with enthusiasm for the Celebration III experience, and the fans that have helped make Star Wars so unique. "This has been an incredible experience for all of us who had been lucky to be part of it," he said. "All I want to do is share that with everyone. I hope that you love this film, because I promise you, I really think this is the one. This is the one that will deliver. This is the one that you always wanted to see. And I hope you have a great time with it."