It would seem that Philadelphia is bragging about its lineup of movies to be filmed in their little town including Transformers 2.
“The film industry is [an] increasingly lucrative [thing] for government to embrace,” says Pinkenson. “We already have a reputation as the most cooperative and film-friendly city in the business. Having these tax incentives adds to our attraction. Right now, we’re looking at applications for six to eight films to begin in June, and more to follow.”The not-so-top-secret list includes Remorse, Three Sistas, Shyamalan’s Avatar series, a film based on Marley and Me and possibly Transformers 2.
Now I have to challenge this claim of “the most cooperative and film friendly city in the business” as I think this is a little bit of an advertisement within a statement. All advertisements will claim that they are more durable yet softer than the leading kitten brand.
Personally I think they are trying to lure some business their way from the REAL most film friendly city in the world. Toronto Ontario Canada. As a former courier that worked the downtown core of Toronto, I have to say that if the repeatedly closed streets and lines of Craft Services trailers and crews were any indication, they would have approximately six to eight movies a WEEK in Toronto.
Producers LOVE Toronto. It looks enough like an American city that they can take shots of it and CGI the Empire State Building in the background and you wouldn’t know the difference. I knew the downtown core building by building and could often identify scenes shot in Toronto.
Am I happy that Transformers 2 is being filmed in Philly? Honestly I don’t care. I am just happy its being filmed. Period.
“Its also the most dangerous city in America with the highest murder rate.”
Uh…what? Where do you get your numbers? Philadelphia isn’t even in the top 20 dangerous US cities (it’s 21, to be exact).
obscure reference alert! If you watch the end of ‘Surviving the Game’ with Ice-T and Rutger Hauer, the scene cuts to ‘Seattle’ with a cityscape shot of Philly.
Yup, just passed by the Paramount trailers parked outside of the old Eastern State Penitentiary in my old neighborhood of Fairmount. Today.
Just to let you know Jay. We have been covering the filming of this movie as well as posting the casting calls… which include Philly… for a while now.
And Mike, you forgot your caps lock on.
JUst to let all you know that the Transformer Movie IS being filmed in Philly. My bro is working as security for the movie, they started filming today.
tHEY aRE DEFINITELY SHOOTING IN PHILLY THEY JUST SHUT A SEEN IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD WITH BUMBLEBEE AND PRIME! AWESOME
Philly is actually a pretty awesome city, center city has a pretty amazing look to it since it has a mix of old meticulously maintained colonial time buildings alongside towering skyscrapers. It’s pretty unreal when you first visit.The historic part philly, old city has the most British look and feel of any of the u.s. cities. Shooter,national treasure,rocky series there are quite a number of films shot in the city. The city has become a magnet for the arts over the past few years. Transformers is going to look stunning shot amongst a city with the look of philly.
Looks like it’s a done deal:
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b1_4movie-r.6411731may17,0,1869475.story
@ krystina
HAHA!!!!! AHH SHIT HAHAHAHA ^^^^^^…thats riiich…
@Kristina
Kevin Smith does.
@crackerjack
JERSEY?! Who the fuck wants to go to school there?! HA!
@Dylan
Philly’s a sphincter and you know it!
@ Kristina
I won’t stand for your slander, young woman. Only parts of Philly are shithole-ish.
Anyway, I love my adopted city, and if it scores Transformers 2, that’d be a major coup. We’re supposedly getting one (possibly 2) full-fledged movie studio(s).
Why is the post titled “Tranformers 2 Filming in Philadelphia,” when the news story clearly says “and possibly Transformers 2?”
These kinds of oversights are what propagate unsubstantiated rumors all over the net.
Some cities have some sort of “landmark leakage” clause that puts SOMETHING in the picture that gives away where it was filmed but its usually something not so glaringly obvious.
It is intentional though its supposed to be discrete.
You don’t see the CN Tower in any movie that is supposed to be in NY.
“and CGI the Empire State Building in the background and you wouldn’t know the difference”
Actually, most can. See, for some reason, most filmmakers or studios might take that action, but at the same time they won’t block off landmarks or places in Toronto. It’s usually an oversight or they hope no one notices.
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As for comic book themed movies not doing well when filmed in Canada, I disagree.
Austraila has more to worry about, haha.
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I don’t know if Omptimus Prime comes to Philly; I don’t know if Bumblebee loiters around Flint,Michigan. All I know is…Transformers 2 is coming to a theatre near you.
That’s all I need to know.
yeah- pretty much every single superheroe movie that takes place in NY was shot in LA
AjaxLou
the moral of the comic book, show and movie was always with humans and machines and the whole “more then meets the eye” so yeah there are humans dude- mostly the relationship with bumblebee and sam and uptimus so yah
and it would tank if there were no humans- and all autobots have liek a human personality if you really pay attention
i like the whole military army thing they did in the movie it shows lik what it would be if it really did happen so it makes the movie better/more watchable then if its just robots
Well, I live in Philly and work in Jersey, so if there is filming in either one, I’ll see what I can do about getting some pictures or anything like that for ya, John.
Just because there may be sets in Philly doesnt mean that it will take PLACE in Philly. They can say its Jersey and still just use a part of a city street.
They made a street in Hamilton look like Queens for the Hulk, and every movie in Toronto is not set in Toronto.
they did alot of film in philly like invincible annapolis and national treasure fallen, and sixth sense come on no hate … on our city i did extras bring the real stars here for more philly films will smith and all …were on the map…
Are there people in this movie?!?!? I thought the Transformers was about robots?
ok i just hope barricades back cuz hes my fav transformer (im still 99% sure he didnt die in the 1st movie)
i dont care were its filmed
and hopefully they wont make them unrecognizable like megatron- who the designers just slaped metal all over his body cuz they were too lazy to make him right (or at least thats what it looked like)i know we all agree on the whole “change the characters from the comic book to the big screen” but not THAT much
he looked like a bionicle threw up and the robo-puke ended up loking like 2 legs arms and a head
I am stupid to post on this, but I know people on the production and haven’t heard one word about Philly. Shia’s character is going to school in Jersey, there will be some scenes in Egypt, but as for Philly, sounds like they are boasting before anything real is a done deal. As far as the most Film friendly city, that is still L.A. Like it or not, though expensive, it is still the place for film and television. Next on the list as far as breaks would be New Mexico. They are stealing alot of business. Then maybe Canada, maybe. Even though also quite expensive, New York is still getting plenty of business. Austin, Texas is doing pretty well too. But really no one is doing more film and television than L.A. and New York. So far.
Well, I live in Philly and can see the bridge to Jersey from my window. Philly and NJ are only seperated by a lil river, and are literally just a few miles apart, so I don’t think filming in Philly would be such a stretch. The UPenn campus would make for a very nice school setting. It’s better than filming in Camden (bleh!).
John tell me some more comic book or fanboy driven movies that were entirely shot in Canada in the past 3-4 years that got good reviews and fanboys were satisfied with.
x-men & x2 definitely were shot their and and were good movies but lately every fanboy driven movies shot there somehow end up sucking which is unfortunate.
Hopefully hulk 2 breaks that curse.
Jamie
That’s a great point. I didn’t think of that. The transformations are why we’re there. You are correct, sir.
I don’t think the whole movie takes place there. It probably starts with Sam away at college in Philly(though why he’d go to school in that shithole, God only knows why), but then the action moves back out west for plenty of lens flares, slo-mo sunsets, and loud stereotypical minorities.
Why go to school in Philly??? Lets see – University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University, Temple University, LaSalle University, Saint Joe’s University, Philadelphia University, Villanova…. I could go on for days with the list of world renowned schools located in the city of Philadelphia and it’s surrounding suburbs. It is THE place to go for a quality education
Right on, Megan! The Illadelph is a fantastic city
with great schools. Also, Go Phillies!
Monty…
i wonder if that small leftover allspark optimus held in his hand will have anything to do in the 2nd movie- still if not there still is starscream leading the decepticons to earth to seek revenge and kiling humans for fun cuz- thats how they roll…
GODFATHER
i dont think that going to cybertron is a good idea cuz the awsome thing about transformers was the whole
f-22/robot chevy/robot helicopter/robot transformations and in cybertron there is no point in disguising cuz there are no humans- and when they do transform its into the futuristic vehicles (like megatron)
im from Philly. it doesn’t have the highest murder rate. wrong.
I cant imagine the transformer movie taking place here though… if it did i know a couple of guys who would have a geekgasm.
Without the Allspark, the only thing the Autobots and Decepticons have left to fight over are Philly Cheesesteaks.
@ scott
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Its also the most dangerous city in America with the highest murder rate.
Hey Don,
Actually, the one of the MANY reasons studios love filming in Canada is because of how accomodating the locals always are and how much the communities welcome them.
The list of great movies filmed in Canada is too long to mention… but if you want to talk Comic book movies… X-Men anyone?
Well this is great news I go to film school in Philly and this news is amazing. Now I just have to get working on these movies
Most big budget movies shot in canada have gotten bad reviews and got a lot of shit from fanboys.
fantastic four 1 and 2, x3, resident evil, avp2 movies and bunch more.
The thing is that canadians get pissed when something is shooting in their city as lives become a bit hectic, roads close down and stuff.
People aren’t cooperative at all.
So it is good that a lot studios are trying to avoid it.
if JLA sucks big time then you know canada is the best choice for filmmakers to make mediocre fanboy driven movies.
It says “possibly Transformers 2” which indicates potential, not actuality. Sure there’s time before an actual decision is made, but personally, I’m hoping TF2 doesn’t hop around in locations as much as the first one did. Let’s just have them duke it out on Cybertron!
hey- better then LA right? it never maters were the movies are filmed i mean a lot of movies that take place in new york are filmed in LA and stuff so w.e.
as long as their filming it…
i wanna know whos in it though- like what transformers cuz- if their shooting- they already know the line up and i WANT to know which decepticons and autobots are in it