Shooting at CMU

The Software Engineering Institute building at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania will be a shooting location in The Dark Knight Rises. Photos of it can be seen below.

The SEI will be portrayed as a prison, in a major scene that will feature an explosion, a prison break, precision stunt driving, gunfire, atmospheric smoke and controlled pyrotechnic explosions. Prep work for filming will begin on July 11. Filming will take place at the intersection of Dithridge and Henry streets from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, July 30-31, on the Fifth Ave. side from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday, July 31, and inside of the Mellon Institute's fourth-floor entrance lobby on Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 3-4.