Viva La France. As reported, the area surrounding City Hall has been donned up to look like a suburb of Paris, complete with signs pointing towards “La Tour Eiffel” and French flags billowing (not that the French actually put up flags all over the place, unlike the patriotic Americans). The PhillyChitChat blog has captured pictures of the set up and the newly added French flavour. Other signs state “Ecole Militaire”, which means Military Academy and is a Paris Metro station. There is also a second report about the French café set.

Whilst at Eastern State Penitentiary, Cheeseburger, via TLAMB, reports that Cell Block 7 is being prepared for filming on Friday.

Following the reports of Bumblebee being spotted at Richmond Power Station yesterday, Energonkid has provided a shot of two Bumblebees (Hero and Stunt), sitting side by site:

Just a quick update for you folks.

There have been reports, as expected, that filming is taking place at the Richmond Power Plant today, where there have been citings of Bumblebee. The crew have also been spotted filming at the Philadelphia City Hall.

Philly.com have revealed that today’s filming is focusing around the Eastern State Penitentiary and later in the week Rittenhouse Square will be made up to look like Paris. Then, next week, it’s off to Princeton.

Transformers 2 cameras and crew have been all over (Fairmount Park, University of Pennsylvania) and today are due inside Eastern State Penitentiary, while Rittenhouse Square will double as Paris later this week. Saturday is the scheduled Philly wrap; next stop: Princeton.

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.

Philly.com have pointed out that the Transformers II production team will very soon be starting their work in and around Philadelphia,

Keep an eye out for Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox and John Turturro over the next two weeks as Michael Bay puts Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen before the cameras in Philly, starting tomorrow. Among locations: Peco [Philadelphia Electric Company] plants along the Delaware, the University of Pennsylvania (because LaBeouf plays a college student), and Eastern State Penitentiary. Last week’s shooting in Bethlehem, Pa., was a blast, as the old U.S. Steel plant hosted explosions and whirring Black Hawk helicopters.