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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At long last some­thing fleshy and solid to get our teeth into! Here are a ton of pic­tures from the actual Dark Knight film, pro­mo­tional shots by the look of things — screen­shots if you will. Mul­ti­ple Joker shots and rem­nants of what we heard about in that trailer.

EDIT: After some research and much delib­er­a­tion I have decided to remove these pic­tures from this site. It seems that yes, the pic­tures are offi­cial, but that they were leaked with­out per­mis­sion from a WB owned com­puter. They were instead to be used as some sort of prize to a viral mar­ket­ing cam­paign. It feels like we are chil­dren and we have opened out presents before Christ­mas. When Christ­mas comes we wont be half as excited.

For those too late to the party, don’t worry — they will undoubt­edly resur­face in a few weeks as part of an offi­cial cam­paign. Or alter­na­tively you could catch them on the sites not yet asked to remove the images — they will always be some­where. I shall per­son­ally repost the images once they have been offi­cially released by the WB.

In the mean time, a num­ber of web­sites are still host­ing these pic­tures, I’ll list them here:
Slash­Film | IESB | First Show­ing | Film School Rejects | Flickr | X-realms | The Movie Blog

I have also started a topic on the forums to dis­cuss the pic­tures: Forums

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:

Slash­Film picked up the scoop on this spoiler from one Tophrman, and the fore­warn­ings go: these could be fake, they could be real — either way you take some sort of risk in read­ing the details.

Con­tent hid­den, mouse-over it to reveal the spoilers:

• Har­vey Dent reveals him­self to be Bat­man at a wild press con­fer­ence at Supe­rior Court Dent.
• The National Guard patrols through down­town Gotham.
• At Wayne Enter­prises, a new char­ac­ter named Reese (played by Joshua Harto) tries to black­mail Lucius Fox using Batman’s identity.
• Bruce Wayne dis­cusses his plans for Lau (played by Chin Han) with Lucius Fox. But the real ques­tion is, who is Lau?
• Some­one breaks in to the Wayne Enter­prises’ Research and Devel­op­ment, and Fox is notified.
• Jim Gor­don explains “just enough” to get Har­vey Dent (Aaron Eck­hart) to issue search war­rants. For what, we don’t know.
• Jim Gor­don tells Com­mis­sioner Loeb (played by Colin McFar­lane) that his life is threat­ened, Loeb drinks to that.
• Har­vey Dent promises the Mayor a crime-free 18 months right before a fake Bat­man hits the May­ors Office window.
• A fake Bat­man hangs from the flag­pole out­side City Hall.
• Jim Gor­don tries to get Reese out out of the street entrance of a tv stu­dio, but an angry mob appears. Bruce Wayne serves as a dis­trac­tion. I won­der what Reese was doing on TV? May-be he was there to reveal Batman’s iden­tity? But if so, why would Bruce Wayne help him out? The actor play­ing Reese (Joshua Harto) looks pretty young. May-be he’s an up-and-coming reporter who some­how fig­ured out Batman’s true iden­tity? But this still doesn’t explain why there is an angry mob await­ing his exit from the building.

Hol­ly­wood­Chicago have reported that efforts are being made to pro­duce an explo­sive new action scene, don’t read on if you are wary of spoil­ers — this source is well accounted for.

Here is the biggest infor­ma­tion of all. Mark Aug. 29, 2007 down on your cal­en­dars. They will implode a four-story build­ing on the for­mer Brach Candy fac­tory site.

I have been told this will be a day shoot. A typ­i­cal build­ing implo­sion does not have any flames. This will be different.

They will load the build­ing with large amounts of gaso­line and other flam­ma­ble mate­r­ial for a huge explo­sion and ulti­mate implo­sion of the building.