Team Michael Bay Officially Welcomes 'Rosie Huntington-Whitely' [SIC] to Transformers 3

Victoria's Secret model, Girlfriend of Statham and human product placement Rosie Huntington-Whiteley received an official introduction today by way of MichaelBay.com -- which left the second "E" out of her surname, but hey. With RHW's sultry, nude Russian Harper's Bazaar cover providing the accompaniment, no one's reading the words anyway. That said, there is some news about shooting that's currently underway in L.A. (and soon to follow elsewhere) if you're interested.

The LAT has the scoop on where to find Bay, RHW, Shia LaBeouf et. al. making what is arguably the biggest movie of 2011 -- and some folks outside L.A. can look forward to sightings of their own:

The DreamWorks/Paramount Pictures production has been shooting on a sound stage at the former Spruce Goose Howard Hughes hangar at Playa Vista and will film exterior shots throughout the L.A. area over the next several weeks, including Long Beach, West Hollywood, Century City and Malibu. [...] In all, six weeks of the 4 1/2 months of shooting will occur in the L.A. area, with the rest of the filming spread across Chicago, Detroit, Washington and Cape Canaveral, Fla., and a few foreign locales, including Russia and an undisclosed African country, [co-producer Ian] Bryce said.

Bryce said the science-fiction action movie starring Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Patrick Dempsey required more diverse locations than L.A. could offer, and also cited the advantages of "very attractive rebates" offered in Michigan and Illinois, which will also host the production for six weeks.

Yowza! Four and a half months of shooting? They're making two films, right?

· Rosie Huntington-Whitely and Filming in LA [MichaelBay.com]

· "Transformers" takes over L.A. streets [LAT]