"I didn't sign the contract immediately because I had to figure out the logistics of making more 'Harry Potter' films," she says. "I had to think about my university plans. I didn't want to give either one up. It took a bit of time to figure out how to make it all work, and then Warner Bros. gave me Mondays off," Watson says. "I have tutors and the hours now to get my college work done.

He transformed New Haven into the city of Bedford, the local Starbucks into an oyster bar called McCurry's Tavern, Old Campus into the runway for an action-packed motorcycle chase, the Omni Hotel into the headquarters of the oldest Hollywood film production company, and Yale into Marshall College, circa 1957.

It’s all in a week’s work for Indiana Jones, raider of the Lost Ark and professor of archeology who apparently has a hard time remembering his lines as he lectures in WLH.

Since filming for the fourth installment of Indiana Jones began last Thursday, the University and its urban periphery have undergone what can only be described as a metamorphosis. Ford Thunderbirds, rather than SUVs, cruised the streets. Bozo the Clown mirrors replaced parking meters. A new statue sat in the center of Old Campus without a head — that flew away after being hit by a racing motorcycle. The Branford Courtyard walkways became relics of history, replaced by gravel and Hollywood lights.

Men and women talking into headsets drove freely through blocked-off streets in their “Gator” cars and crew trucks, as if the University were suddenly a Los Angeles movie lot. Trailers littered the area, serving snacks or providing respite from the New Haven heat. According to the film’s location manager, Mike Fantasia, Paramount Pictures employed more than 125 crewmembers from Connecticut, as well as over 200 food vendors from Connecticut, New York and New Jersey.

After airing original feature films The Junction Boys and 3, ESPN further solidifies their sports movie leadership with The Bronx Is Burning, an eight-part miniseries that begins Monday night at 10pm on ESPN.

Anyone old enough to remember the 1977 N.Y. Yankees can imagine them as the focus of an 8-hour film (based on Jonathan Mahler’s bestseller). Semi-lovingly called “The Bronx Zoo,” the Yanks were the first superstar team of baseball’s free agent world, a collection of egos and grit owner George Steinbrenner bought for one reason: to win a World Series for the first time in 15 years.