‘Star Wars’ fans queue up for new movie

It’s not about hope, it’s about hype.

Greece is the only European country that won’t be getting Star Wars: The Force Awaken on the 17th or 18th of December. Fans started camping outside theaters 12 days before this movie’s opening day.

I’d watch this movie on an iPhone if it was my only option, but I can’t wait to see it in IMAX 3D.

Long-time Star Wars producer and now Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy recently revealed that four out of the six people who made up the story department were women, which was particularly important in helping the character of Rey “take shape”. Many of them previously lined up at the same location to be among the first to see the “Star Wars” prequel films, beginning in 1999.

In this image taken from video, actor Anthony Daniels, who portrays C-3PO in the “Star Wars” films, appears with his robot counterpart at a preview for the “Star Wars and the Power of Costume” exhibition at Discovery Times Square Museum on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015. All this hype swirling around isn’t just about nerd love for yet another fantastical mythology – well, not entirely. The group calls the event a “hallmark of the Star Wars experience”.

A couple months ago, when the prospect of having to write a column about “The Force Awakens” first really confronted me, I wondered what I could possibly write. “I didn’t worry about it then because I felt like it had very little to do with me…I don’t worry about it now because it’s just going to be whatever it is”.

“When you hear the next line of people that are meeting, we will have a clear idea of the route they are going to go and what kind of actor they want for this role”, he said. As with all things “Star Wars”, there will be brand tie-ins: Baskin-Robbins will present a themed wedding cake, while Dunkin Donuts hosts pre-ceremony coffee and donuts. “I think he’s right”.

In Kane, Pennsylvania, the Kane Family Drive-in Theater is reopening in the dead of a Northeast winter to show “The Force Awakens”.

For one, Lucas isn’t involved.

Although fans of the “Star Wars” franchise are lining up to see the film, AMC Theatres (NYSE: AMC) said there are still plenty of tickets.

(CNN)If patience is a necessary quality for a Jedi, fans who have gathered in front of a Hollywood theater in anticipation of Thursday’s midnight screening of “The Force Awakens” are surely experts in the ways of the Force.

Abrams, the highly-anticipated movie stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew and Max Von Sydow. “I won’t tell you what it is”.