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!

John Von reports that a video shoot took place yes­ter­day at the Lau­rel Hill Ceme­tery near to Fair­mount Park, PA — he return with videos and pic­tures of the film­ing as well as the base camp. The green Chevy Beat con­cept car is vis­i­ble at the base camp, whilst the video shows the heli­copter used to cap­ture the scenes.

Via TLAMB

Trans­form­ers 2 pro­duc­tion cur­rently resides at The Dairy Fields in Fair­mount Park, which are reserved for film­ing. Braden has been on loca­tion, scout­ing for us fans, to find what­ever scoops he can. He has noted that the actor trail­ers and cam­era equip­ment can be found off North 33rd street, close to the UPENN cam­pus. The vehi­cles how­ever are being kept in a sec­ond loca­tion, close to Walt Whit­man Bridge.

On his stum­blings he came across Opti­mus Prime, Iron­hide, Bum­ble­bee, an uniden­ti­fied grey con­cept car — prob­a­bly a Chevro­let (ZR1, C7?). You can find pic­tures below.

Via TLAMB

Emails have been sent out to employ­ees at the Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia, warn­ing of film­ing that will be tak­ing place next week,

To the Penn Community:

Dream­Works Pro­duc­tions will be film­ing scenes for the upcom­ing movie “Trans­form­ers 2″ on Penn’s cam­pus this week. The film­ing will take place in the Quad and both inside and out­side the Psi Upsilon (Cas­tle) fra­ter­nity on Locust Walk. Both Penn and Dream­Works staff will be on hand to help guide peo­ple around the area dur­ing film­ing in an effort to min­i­mize any inconvenience.

Setup, film­ing, and set decon­struc­tion are sched­uled for the Quad from June 10 through June 12 and for the Cas­tle fra­ter­nity from June 10 through June 15.

Via /Film

KVIA are report­ing that the Trans­form­ers pro­duc­tion team will return to Alam­ogordo, New Mex­ico where pro­duc­tion has been prepar­ing since April, with plans to shoot in the fall.

Michael Bay will return to New Mex­ico to film major sequences for Trans­form­ers: Revenge of the Fallen, Gov­er­nor Richard­son announced Mon­day. The next install­ment of the box office hit Trans­form­ers is expected to hit the­aters next summer.

Power​.tv were on loca­tion to catch Michael Bay, Shia and Megan Fox strut­ting their stuff in a cou­ple of scenes, although there’s noth­ing too spec­tac­u­lar here.

Finally I got to where the action was, and of all places it was Cappucelli’s Meats (a butcher shop). As you can see the crew was tak­ing up a whole block on Kim­ball St. between 8th & 9th. I saw a few extras walk­ing the same path over and over and over and the same 4 or 5 cars kept dri­ving by. Took me a few min­utes to real­ize though that the scene they were shoot­ing was inside the shop, and the extras and cars were just back­ground to be seen through the windows.

Via /Film