This shooting event was a big occasion, and as expected, a lot of people were there to take pictures. Yippee. One of the best collections of pictures of The Dark Knight Memorial service comes from flickr user kedziers in his Gotham City set.

Here are a few select and super high resolution (2mb each) pictures provided under the Creative Commons license that I have picked out, followed by the traditional flickr slide-show gallery:

Our second set comes from tiffanyjbt. Here we can see Christian Bale, as Bruce Wayne, riding a Ducati:

A third collection comes from nailtechnician’s efforts:

You can find even more here and we’ll probably keep updating this post with more and more links as they come in.

Let’s get some old videos in here too whilst I am at it – these show the street level fire and a helicopter fly-by:

Rory_bat, from the SuperHeroHype forums has been on location recently for the latest TDK shoot,

He had this to say:

Alright, I am sure you guys already know where they were shooting today: Berghoff’s (I think I spelled that right), some kind of old and classy restaurant/bar type. The crew had vehicles all on Adams and the adjoining streets. The first time I walked by early on in the day they were shooting inside. They had some screens up over the exterior and I could hear them yell “rolling”. I didn’t know who was inside at this point. Outside there was a large bus that had “Corerctions” written on the side of it. It was a GPD bus, presumably for hauling off prisoners of a sort. There were also a few GPD extras milling around. I walked further down toward State St. and saw all kinds of GPD and Gotham cars waiting to be used. I figured some exterior stuff would be happening later. I wasn’t wrong.

Around 2:30 or 3:00 I made my way back and sure enough, there was quite a bit of action. There was a whole crowd of extras dressed in suits, they seemed to be reporters or maybe just onlookers. In front of this crowd was a GPD officer holdig a shotgun (very cool). Some of the extras were pretending to shiver..don’t forgett the fall setting. It was amusing to watch. A bit further down in front of Berghoff’s was were the good stuff was happening. Nolan and co. were shooting a scene where GPD and Lt. Gordon escort Maroni and his goons into the corrections bus, busting them. I stood across the street and watched (taking pics and got video of one whole take). Eric Roberts looked great as Maroni, cuffed and all. After each take they would wipe the sweat off of Oldman, Roberts and the extras, attempting to keep the atmosphere of Fall in place (certainly tough with today’s weather).

Shots from the filming:

HollywoodChicago have posted up the latest set of street closures as a result of The Dark Knight filming schedule:

“The Dark Knight” Street Closures

Wednesday, Aug. 22 (weather permitting)
2 to 4 p.m.
Helicopter hovering at 515 N. McClurg Ct.
Intermittent traffic control of Grand between Peshtigo and Columbus
Intermittent traffic control of Peshtigo between Grand and Illinois

Thursday, Aug. 23
5 a.m. to 8 p.m. (no closures; parking only)
Adams between Wabash and Dearborn
Wabash between Adams and Van Buren
Wabash between Adams and Monroe
Dearborn between Adams and Monroe

Thursday, Aug. 23
8 to 9 p.m.
Helicopter over Chicago River
Traffic control of Lake Shore and Columbus Street bridges
Traffic control of Wacker between Michigan and Columbus

Friday, Aug. 25
5 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Full closure of LaSalle Street between Jackson and Adams
Full closure of Quincy between LaSalle and Clark
Parking: Wells between Jackson and Monroe

Friday, Aug. 25 (weather permitting)
9 to 11 p.m.
Helicopter hovering at 515 N. McClurg Ct.
Intermittent traffic control of Grand between Peshtigo and Columbus
Intermittent traffic control of Peshtigo between Grand and Illinois
(Saturday and Sunday as alternate dates)

Saturday, Aug. 25 and Sunday, Aug. 26
5 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Full closure of LaSalle between Jackson and Madison
Full closure of Jackson between LaSalle and Clark
Full closure of Adams between LaSalle and Clark
Full closure of Monroe between LaSalle and Clark

And to sparkle this post with pictures, thanks to Sarah Lewert’s flickr:

This has just come in from Brett,

It was around 8:50 am Sunday 8/19 on the corner of west Monroe street and south Canal street. Block away from Union Station. Looked to be round 30 extras. Never did see any lead characters. The security exclaimed “pictures up,” and the extras began to walk around as random people on the street. I think they were filming inside the building or just on the corner. Not sure what building it is. Anyway, the people were just walking around then I heard two gunshots and extras began to run everywhere. What’s more is I did hear a loud sinister laugh, which was without a doubt in my mind, the Joker ala Heath Ledger.

And these are the pictures:

Rory was also on the scene to capture some GCN images in the pouring rain.

Alright, so I went back down to the set in the pouring rain and got some pics. Due to the rain they stopped shooting so all of the extras were sitting around the lobby of the building… which is now the GCN, which I am guessing is “Gotham City News” or “Gotham Cable News” (though I favor the first). I was able to walk right up the building and started taking photos. There were a lot of PA’s and Extras around but they didn’t seem to mind me too much. I got some courage and walked right into the lobby. Inside it was dressed as a TV station with GCN and tv screens all over the place. I didn’t stay too long and didn’t snap any pics for fear of being caught. It was cool to see though. Also saw the official set photographer who looked a bit bummed…maybe because of the pic leak.

A few more picture galleries have emerged overnight, showing more of Bruce Wayne’s car and a little bit of Gary Oldman to boot.

This first set is from Goldmoon:

And a second set from Spinnaker:

In other news, I have just added Flickr embedding support to the forums, amongst other things.

Whilst everyone is pre-occupied with those nefarious leaked Dark Knight stills, we’ll continue to bring you the scoops from the street level. This time it comes via Flickr user Lego Dreams. Today we see our caped crusader flat out on his back preparing for an upcoming stunt.

And the rest of the pictures can be seen through this sexy slideshow embed. Including more on set shots of vehicles, the stunt and our Dark Knight on the floor:

After the break, see the more spoiler filled pictures.

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It seems like Nolan and his team have been at it once again in down town Chicago, although this time with a notable addition – Christian Bale has at long last been spotted on set. These pictures and set reports are all from the August 12th shoot. To outline the events we have, via X-realms, El Eshoo’s report – to start with:

I had a chance to watch/gawk at some filming of Batman (Sunday, Aug 12th) at the 330 North Wabash Building. They had several different vehicles out there (Gotham Police Dept, Gotham News Vans, Military vehicles, Bomb Squad truck, etc.) which was cool to see. But I’d say the best of all: I was lucky enough to be 10 feet from Christopher Nolan, Aaron Eckhart and Mr. Bruce Wayne himself … Christian Bale! They were filming some “Press Conference” stuff in the lobby of 330 earlier in the day, broke for lunch around 1:00-ish and then filmed some more “Press Conference” stuff.

Then they brought in some Army-type guys along with camouflaged Hummers and Trucks with machine-gunners to shoot some Helicopter fly-bys. They closed down a SHITLOAD of areas for this (police stopping traffic from Michigan Ave to LaSalle), not allowing anyone in the area (no foot traffic aloud during fly-bys down Chicago River towards lake) and were even heavier on the NO PICTURES crap. The choppers came pretty low as they passed over the courtyard outside of 330 North Wabash where military and Gotham press people were all around. Cameras on the ground were filming the fly-bys.

Mr. Eshoo was able to take a fair few pictures in his time amongst Rory’s First Kiss:

For more of these shots check out the X-realms report. Next up, Sterno74 managed to capture a fantastic high resolution shot of the fake National Guard fly overs, click the image for large or check out his flickr profile.

Meanwhile rolandin has got some very nice high resolution photos of the stationary Batpod. Or some more helicopters via gtrietsc’s flickr gallery.

And last, but certainly not least, a fellow by the name of Spanish39 was on location to snatch a few more images, this time of the infamous Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne – here he is with Christopher Nolan:

Mary Jane has sent in this tidbit of news for us,

Beginning Saturday, August 11 and continuing through Saturday, August 18, preparations for and filming of a feature film currently disguised as “Rory’s First Kiss” is scheduled at 330 North Wabash. The filming takes place in the lobby, thirteenth and third floors as well as the exterior south plaza. The actual filming dates are: Sunday, August 12 in the lobby (southwest side), Wednesday and Thursday, August 15 and 16 on the 13th floor, and Friday and Saturday, August 17 and 18 on the 3rd floor and exterior.

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