From Kendall White­house:

From rhavener and Nikos G:

Film­ing has now started at the Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia and you can be sure reports and pic­tures galore shall start pour­ing in shortly, much as they did in Beth­le­hem, PA.

First up, a local web­site, “Duel­ing Tam­pons” (I don’t know — best not to ask), man­aged to cap­ture a shot of Shia LaBoeuf up close and per­sonal, sport­ing a green “recy­cling” t-shirt:

TLAMB and Fade­Sil­ver­Screen have both posted pic­tures from film­ing yes­ter­day (at the Quad) and today (at the Cas­tle). One set of images comes via BP, show­ing the setup at UPENN, stat­ing that film­ing at the Quad lasted most of the day — almost exclu­sively with Shia LaBoeuf, though it has also been con­firmed that Kevin Dunn (Sam Witwicky’s dad) was on set — as pic­tures from Fad­ed­Sil­ver­Screen reveal. Images from today show Shia dressed in blue as he strolls past the cam­era as shoot­ing begins at The Cas­tle. Michael Bay shows up at the end to greet and sign HD-DVDs for wait­ing fans.

Braden has returned to get more shots of Opti­mus Prime and Bum­ble­bee in action, this time with a short video. The images clearly show that Bum­ble­bee has under­gone some mod­i­fi­ca­tions, with a wider front grill, new lights and rims — reported to be a 2010 Chevy Camaro SS. There is also spec­u­la­tion that ceme­tery film­ing means some­body impor­tant that we know dies in the course of the film.

Via TLAMB

Saab His­tory are report­ing that the Saab Aero-X con­cept car will be used in the Trans­form­ers sequel as the alt ver­sion of Wheel­jack. Given that Gen­eral Motors are pro­vid­ing the cars for the movie it is highly prob­a­ble that this rumor shall unfold to be true.

Thanks The Missle!

The fourth tele­vi­sion spot for The Dark Knight has now aired, I love the start of this one:

Thanks Keith!

The track­list­ing for Hans Zim­mer and James New­ton Howard’s Dark Knight score has been unveiled, which will be released as a stan­dard ver­sion and a lim­ited edi­tion ver­sion. Full details avail­able at Hans​-Zim​mer​.com

1. Why So Seri­ous? 09:14
2. I’m Not A Hero 06:34
3. Har­vey Two-Face 06:16
4. Aggres­sive Expan­sion 04:35
5. Always A Catch 01:39
6. Blood On My Hands 02:16
7. A Lit­tle Push 02:42
8. Like A Dog Chas­ing Cars 05:02
9. I Am The Bat­man 01:59
10. And I Thought My Jokes Were Bad 02:28
11. Agent Of Chaos 06:55
12. Intro­duce A Lit­tle Anar­chy 03:42
13. Watch The World Burn 03:47
14. A Dark Knight 16:15

Thanks Keith!

Adam writes in to tell us that IMAX Chicago will be putting on a spe­cial 72 hour Bat­man feast to mark the release of The Dark Knight,

Begin­ning with the first pub­lic show­ing at mid­night on Fri­day, July 18 (late Thurs­day night), the film will show con­sec­u­tively all week­end until late Sun­day, July 20 (the mid­night show). As well, var­i­ous Batman-themed games, con­tests and prizes will add to the buzz through­out the weekend.

Tick­ets can be bought at IMAX Chicago

The Joker has sent out this mes­sage to all the active cell phones:

OK clowns, are you ready for some laughs (y/n)?
You put a smile on my face. Hope you’re not superstitious

Super­sti­tion relates to the day — Fri­day 13th June. We already know that’s when “Gotham Tonight” will pre­mier, maybe The Joker has some­thing in store for them?

Other Viral Updates

A new email from Har­vey Dent:

It’s been an incred­i­ble last few weeks. Ever since the vicious smear cam­paign col­lapsed and Har­vey Dent’s remark­able courage at the hostage cri­sis at Rossi’s Deli, our cam­paign has rid­den a wave of sup­port I have never seen in all my polit­i­cal life.

Our Head­quar­ters reopened and thou­sands of vol­un­teers show up here every day, every night, fight­ing for change. Fundrais­ing has reached incred­i­ble heights, with over 100,000 Gotham cit­i­zens con­tribut­ing their hard-earned money in sup­port of Har­vey Dent’s vow to take back Gotham.

We’ve expanded our reach, open­ing branches in neigh­bor­hoods that haven’t seen polit­i­cal cam­paigns take them seri­ously for decades. And we’ve har­nessed the incred­i­ble grass­roots sup­port by send­ing vol­un­teers to knock on doors through­out the city. Amaz­ingly, we will achieve our two mil­lionth door knock some­time in between now and Elec­tion Day.

Har­vey Dent has com­mit­ted him­self to lead the charge to take back our city, face down the crim­i­nal and cor­rupt and restore hope for our future.

Now, we need your help. We need to get out the vote!. And we need you to vote your­self. If you can’t make it to the polls, go to http://​www​.gotham​elec​tion​board​.com and find out how you can vote online. Work­ing together, we will take back Gotham!

Allan Cypes Media Manager

Maiden Avenue Report — Shuts Down, writer sells out

Gotham City Rail:

Gotham City Rail Announces Satel­lite Track­ing and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions System

To bet­ter serve our cus­tomers, GCR has com­pleted its tran­si­tion to a satel­lite track­ing and com­mu­ni­ca­tions sys­tem (STCS). Using cut­ting edge ultra high fre­quency tech­nol­ogy, STCS will give GCR the real-time abil­ity to track exact posi­tion­ing of all its trains. This will allow for more accu­rate sched­ul­ing and should increase GCR’s already impres­sive safety record.

Cit­i­zens for Bat­man — Intro­duc­tion updated:

For the first time, we have hope. Bat­man proves we can fight back against the sociopaths, thugs, and scum that have ruled Gotham for too long.
And now, City Hall wants to arrest Batman!

Gotham Police — Annual Policeman’s Ball
Gotham USD — News area updated
Inter­nal Affairs of Gotham Police Depart­ment — Inter­nal Affairs Offi­cers of the Month added
Trust Garcetti — Updates with info about elec­tion
Dana Wor­thing­ton — “Yes for Batman”

And of course you can still vote in the elec­tions.

Thanks Pierre!