Flickr user 070758 has also granted us permission to reproduce these two photos depicting preparation for the “batman base jump” and a nicely posed police officer extra:

The Press Conference via BlipTV:

In this conference Chris Nolan also debunked those previous rumors that a scene was abandoned because of pollution, citing script changes as the real reason.You can find another entertainment round-up in this ITN video hosted on YouTube:

Hong Kong Videos:

A Round up of the HK Action and Batman Jump (pictures montage and footage towards the end):

Police Storming the Scene

Morgan Freeman being filmed:

Hong Kong News Reports:

Hong Kong Pictures:

Batman’s Big Jump:

High Resolution shots of the HK filming, from Christian Bale Fan. Check out the link for lots more galleries and high resolution pictures of Bale and Freeman.

At the Airport (via AICN):

Associated Press (2) | Reuters (2)

The Standard have posted an article covering the event. Once again it seems filled with more of their negative commentary – stating that the fly overs failed to “thrill fans” and those that waited outside to catch a glimpse of Batman or the bat signal. I get the feeling they are not entirely happy with the TDK HK shoot.

Flickr user fernandogros (blog) has also managed to capture some shots of an encircling Helicopter, taking some footage for the movie:

In other related news, Cybrpunk has posted some street closures in the area to make way for Batman and his chums. Specifically, November 9th between 2:00pm and 5:30pm on Lyndhurst Terrace and Cochrane Street:

However, The London Paper were on scene to capture some images and make a comprehensive report, to our delight.

The emergency services were flooded with calls from local residents who feared the defunct electricity generating plant had been targeted by terrorists.

But they were reassured the 200ft fireball, accompanied by columns of grey smoke, which could bee seen for miles across the capital, was a special effect for the latest Batman film.

SPOILER: The spectacular stunt scene, in which Batman actor Christian Bale narrowly cheats death, is believed to be the opening sequence of the fifth caped crusader movie The Dark Knight.

Resident Marck Jason, 24, of Battersea, said: “I was gobsmacked. I was just walking home and saw this bloody huge explosion.

“Obviously my first thought was that it was a terrorist attack and I dialled 999.

“I know it’s sort of cool that the place is being used for a film, as its a brilliant building, but a bit of warning wouldn’t have hurt.”

If anyone has more from the scene we’d love to hear from you!

Via Daily Mail

Supplied with the expressed permission of Whatleydude.

Here is another Gotham explosion video via YouTube:

Over at the SHH forums Big Engine posted up some inside pictures of the Cardington Hangers in the UK, to be used as the setting for a fight scene:

And some SWAT stunt footage via Lexwalk (warning the description of this video and the video itself can be considered a bit spoilerish):

Meanwhile, Maggie Gyllenhaal has been doing some modelling for Agent Provocateur.

And have a good weekend folks!

Check out the flickr gallery for a couple more pictures.

Pictures thanks to rory_bat; he is now heading back to the East Coast, whilst Batman’s filming schedule takes them to England. Filming is set to continue until November.

Want to know how that car ended up in the mess it did?

Here is the best, not really spoiler-ish, report from boatman:

The scene I saw yesterday (Friday, 8/31) had the Lambo driving side by side with the GPD SUV on that photo above. At Illinois St. (in front of Gene and Georgetti restaurant) a pickup truck comes across the intersection and hits one of them. The Lambo and SUV are going north on Franklin, and the pickup truck comes at a right angle from the cross street (Illinois). It took a couple hours to set it up, and they did about 4 or 5 practice runs. We had good views of the practice runs, and it looked like they were working on timing. The SUV was at the far side of the intersection, with the Lambo passing on the right. The pickup truck heads right at the Lambo, but it seemed like they were trying to time it so that it just misses the rear of the Lambo and then hits the SUV instead. Either that, or trying for a Lambo sandwich. However, when they did the final real take, a crowd of crew and PA’s got in front of us (where they had told us to move away from, “because we’d be in the scene”) and although we heard the crash, we couldn’t see exactly what hit what! The GPD fire truck (actual a CFD fire truck with CFD personnel) then pulled over there in case they were needed, but it totally blocked the view of the intersection so we couldn’t see the wreck that resulted.

Secondly, chgojobs had this pull right out in front of him:

He carried on to follow the action and captured this video:

Also, CNN have a new explosive video.