Lucy Liu’s new show, Cashmere Mafia, is filming on 113th between Broadway and Riverside. ABC describes the show as “a thinking woman’s Sex and The City mixed with the wit of The Devil Wears Prada,” but you might want to stop by anyway.

Spiderman and Scarlett Johansson are not the only ones to have visited the CU steps for some film shots — Bwog Editor Chris Szabla came across this clip from the Indian film Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (Never Say Goodbye in English), which was released last August.   The Columbia scene kicks in at about 50 […]

UPDATE 3:12 pm: More pictures after the jump. This ain’t just no two-bit background filming—the production crew of The Nanny Diaries is pulling out the big guns for all us College Walker-stalkers. Johansson can be seen filming a scene with an as-of-yet unidentified male (possibly co-star Chris Evans, of The Fantastic Four fame) near the […]

Jacob Weaver writes in to say: There’s a sign posted at the top of the stairs leading from Low Plaza up to Dodge that says anyone who happens to walk by during filming of the Nanny Diaries today is giving informed consent to being a potentially recognizable extra in the movie. It says that if […]

Gautam Hans reports: A horde of 20 “Production Scouts” descended upon the Hungarian Pastry Shop today at noon, apparently investigating it for possible use in the upcoming film adaptation of “The Nanny Diaries” starring Scarlett Johansson. No word on a reaction from the embittered grad students on the possible commercialization of their second home, but […]

Warner Brothers may have censored itself to stay on the good side of the FCC’s new indecency standards, but you can catch the uncut premier episode of the Bedford Diaries, filmed on the Barnard campus, at the WB website before the sanitized one runs on Wednesday. Sexy professors! Suicides! Unrequited love! Is YOUR life this […]

The Bwog thinks it might be time for Morningside Heights to send the NYC Mayor’s Office for Film and Television a nice big fruit basket. All day today Warner Brothers is filming a TV pilot for ABC, sexily called “The Traveler”, on Riverside Dr. between 110th and 114th (and with the mess extending on 113th […]

Yo. Natalie Portman decided to show up to Bwog’s Terrorism and Counterterrorism class. If you’re in Hamilton, you might be able to catch her as she leaves. The action is on the 7th floor. Update: It turns out that Ms. Portman’s cameo in Professor Stuart Gottlieb’s Terrorism and Counterterrorism class was part of a MTV-U […]

Update: Unexciting pictures after the jump. Film trucks for August Rush have returned to campus. As Bwog reported the other week, the film stars Robin Williams, that Felicity girl , hottie Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and that cute kid from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We’ve learned that the film is a musical-fantasy-romance (everyone’s favorite!) that […]

One would think that oscar-winning documentarian Ric Burns, C 78, had satisfied his propagandistic and masturbatory urges with his documentary for CU 250 festivities, Columbia: A Celebration. Not so! He’s back for more, producing what’s being pitched as a “reality-like” film, about his Alma Mater. And it’s going to be narrated by Brian Dennehy! Yay! […]

Movie filming at Columbia! No, the Olsen twins aren’t making their glorious return—yet—but Columbia may catch glimpses this Wednesday of Robin Williams, that Felicity girl, hottie Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and that cute kid from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory filming August Rush. The movie poses that most important of questions: if you were separated from […]

Sara Vogel says: Just in case you didn’t know, they’re shooting Law and Order up at 116th and Broadway right now, the trucks and trailers extend past Barnard!

In which Bwog staffer Mark Krotov familiarizes us with the places where you can find him when he’s supposed to be in class. When I took chemistry in high school, I sat in front of a sink that I regularly turned on and off to prevent myself from falling asleep. When Columbia students take chemistry, […]