Hollywood in Chicago

[cbotnyse]

from the set of Transformers 3. just a few...

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[Quixote]

Downtown Chicago not as clean and orderly as I thought. ;)

[cbotnyse]

it was just rush hour. :)

[plinko]

Wow they made a mess!

[F1 Tommy]

Great photos. I saw they cleaned up Michigan Avenue really nice Sunday night.
Its not as bad as it looks.


I guess one could look in your childrens toybox for ideas on the next mindless HoLLywoOd franchise movie!! Its all about great special effects, not so much about a good script.
Word is one of the robot things will be a Ferrari 458.

[Livingin313]

cool shots. they're going to be filming trans 3 in detroit pretty soon, now I know what I am in for.

[diskojoe]

definitely more than meets the eye.:haha:

[Coldrsx]

Columbia circa 1989?

[F1 Tommy]

Found this link to more photos:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/collecticon/sets/72157624406012553/

[edsg25]

OMG! They whacked Wacker!

[Onward]

Not what i was expecting when I saw the thread title ha. Very awesome thread. I'm really into these kinda pics for some reason. Thanks for sharing them with us!

[Nightsky]

Looks very realistic, amazing. I think it is pretending to be LA in this scene, right?

[cbotnyse]

^^not sure, what makes you say that?

I've added more pics from last night. another major fight scene!

[J_M_Tungsten]

If its supposed to be an L.A. scene, why would they have Chicago police cars, an east Chicago fire truck, and Evanston cabs?

[Rizzo]

It's been amazing watching this. We run out to the fire escape of the Gurantee building everytime they say "cameras rolling"

Just incredible photos, especially that first one.

From what I've been told, Chicago will be representing Chicago in the movie.


Anyways, the pile up of cars looks like typical rush hour. I've seen some horrendous accidents on Wacker and Michigan that could easily compete with some of the scenes.

[DJM19]

Too bad its transformers 3...do we meed another?

[harryc]

They're still at it - I hope - a big bang and cloud of smoke as I crossed the river at lunch.

From Monday
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8TC_VUmf9Fw/TEc1japYIdI/AAAAAAABino/19AZ_-7dxoo/s800/P1760753.JPG

[F1 Tommy]

Looks very realistic, amazing. I think it is pretending to be LA in this scene, right?

I think you have it backwards, LA normally has shoots that represent other cities. This is an on location shoot as Chicago is the movies main location. They also shot scenes in LA that are supposed to be in Chicago for this movie. They will be shooting in Chicago until early/mid August.

[JDRCRASH]

I wanna see Unicron and Primas battle each other in #3.:D

[LSyd]

coolness

Too bad its transformers 3...do we meed another?

stupid pretentious haters :hell:

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[dktshb]

Very cool. Now NIMBY's live in Downtown LA it is getting more and more difficult to film here when Downtown needs to substitute other cities.

[cbotnyse]

one more cool one...

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f21/cbotnyse/my%20photos/DSC_0012-7.jpg

[OneMetropolis]

I guess one could look in your childrens toybox for ideas on the next mindless HoLLywoOd franchise movie!! Its all about great special effects, not so much about a good script.
Word is one of the robot things will be a Ferrari 458.


Please man, we are in the modern age, people only care about the superficial makeup of movies these days. Good scripts, actors, and movies have all became irrelevant.

[eaguir3]

looks like any other day on the south side

[Rizzo]

That last explosion was amazing.

I can't believe how they cleaned it all up the other night. This morning it was like nothing ever happened.

Back to normal I guess. It was definitely a fun run.

[F1 Tommy]

Its not over yet. They have a few more weeks of shooting in Chicago.


Transformers filming locations in Chicago
July 24-27, July 31, Aug. 1: Filming at 35 E. Wacker Drive (the old Jewelers' Building) will close portions of Wabash and Wacker.
July 27: Filming at Trump Tower will close nearby streets periodically.
Here are more details:
Wacker Drive will be closed from Wabash Avenue to State Street from 8
p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. Monday, officials said. Wabash Avenue will also
be closed between Wacker Drive and Lake Street from 8 p.m Friday until 5
a.m. Monday, officials said.
http://www.chicagotribunal.com/breaking/wacker-drive-closures-this-weekend-for-transformers-3-filming
When Sat Jul 24 – Tue Jul 27, 2010

[Xing]

interesting...

hehe

[CRE8IVEDESTRUCTION]

Took this last Wednesday on my way to the train...

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/8426/img1685q.jpg (http://img294.imageshack.us/i/img1685q.jpg/)

[F1 Tommy]

Still shooting this week. Here is a video article from Crains. It really only effects a very small area of downtown, so I think its a good thing. Hollywood is all about the look. Since downtown Chicago looks very good they love it here(until the robots trash it) .


http://www.chicagobusiness.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=9999100033709

[Alliance]

Sorry to bump an old thread, but as per the Superbowl teaser for Dark of the Moon, it looks like this is actually going to be a Chicago disaster movie. The burning city is featured almost the entire length of the teaser. As someone who enjoys "Bayhem," this pleases me greatly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTG95T1hsxQ

:cool:

[amfleisch]

pause it at the :10 mark and the clip does not make sense. looks like the image is mirrored. the john hancock is on fire while navy pier appears north of it. for some reason details like that bother me. kinda like in waynes world where non of the driving scenes in chicago make any sense.

[touraccuracy]

michael bay movies would be the coolest to watch get filmed, too bad they're terrible though.

transformers is getting no more money from me after that last mess.

[F1 Tommy]

pause it at the :10 mark and the clip does not make sense. looks like the image is mirrored. the john hancock is on fire while navy pier appears north of it. for some reason details like that bother me. kinda like in waynes world where non of the driving scenes in chicago make any sense.

Looks like typical Hollywood. They picked an angle they liked and added all their favorite buildings to the background. Should still have some great scenes. The writing will also be typical Hollywood(mindless).

[Rizzo]

pause it at the :10 mark and the clip does not make sense. looks like the image is mirrored. the john hancock is on fire while navy pier appears north of it. for some reason details like that bother me. kinda like in waynes world where non of the driving scenes in chicago make any sense.

LOL, look at the Olympia Center, it's tipped at a precarious angle.

[The North One]

Looks very realistic, amazing. I think it is pretending to be LA in this scene, right?

yeah, they did that with TF1 the fight was in LA but they had shots of downtown Detroit in it, I wonder if they thought anyone would notice.:D

There was even a scene with the abandon train station.

[Chicago2020]

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[Alliance]

It kind of bugged me that they did they added another Aqua and I wonder why. Is Harbor Point copyrighted or something? I know Marina City has rules for the use of its image, but that was in the film at fairly close shots

It just seemed like an odd decision, especially because its in some shots and not others.

[J_M_Tungsten]

Yeah! I'm not the only person who dissected the trailer!

[F1 Tommy]

Well its out. The destruction of what looks like 300N lasalle was well done.
Dumb movie with nice special effects.

[J_M_Tungsten]

I think that was 155 N wacker