I hope so, but if they were all being released at the same time, wouldn’t the announcement have mentioned Empire and Jedi too?
No, because they didn’t do that on the first announcement, either. They originally said it would be “Star Wars: A New Hope” and said the release date was April. And then months later they said it was the original theatrical version, and the release date is now February.
We’ve got over a year until the 50th anniversary year actually kicks off. They’ve been working on all three movies since 2022. They’re not going to work on all three movies and then artificially withhold the other two by years when the 50th is right there. They’re not gonna announce everything all at once. They will add to the 50th celebration every couple months, more than likely, with new details as to what that entails, the closer we get to it.
I don’t think they’re going to put all 3 in theaters at the same time.
It’s exactly what they did for the 20th Anniversary. And it was (surprisingly!) huge. People forget now but the Special Edition wasn’t expected to do THAT much business. There’s no reason to think they won’t do it for the 50th Anniversary. It maybe won’t do AS much business now (nothing does, audiences have been steadily declining at the theaters SINCE the 90s, really) but I feel like people are going “there’s no way they’ll do that, they’ll milk it” more out of cynicism/skepticism nurtured over years and years, rather than looking at what they’ve been doing with all three movies basically SINCE they became a Trilogy in the 80s.
edit: I remain astounded at how NATURAL the colors look, especially on Star Wars. Every new leak shows just how striking the photography was on that movie.