Visiting Filming Locations of "Blade II" (2002) in Prague, Czech Republic

Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Produced by Peter Frankfurt, Wesley Snipes, Patrick Palmer
Screenplay by David S. Goyer
Based on Blade by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan
Starring Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman

Guillermo del Toro was hired to direct Blade II by New Line production president Michael De Luca after Stephen Norrington turned down the offer to direct the sequel.
Goyer and Frankfurt both admired director Guillermo del Toro and believed his dark sensibilities to be ideal for Blade II.
Frankfurt first met del Toro when Frankfurt's design company, Imaginary Forces, did the title sequences for Mimic. "I admired Mimic and got to know Guillermo through that film," says Frankfurt.
"Both David Goyer and I have been fans of his since Cronos and were enthusiastic about him coming on board.
Guillermo is such a visual director and has a very strong sense of how he wants a movie to look. When you sign on with someone like Guillermo you're not going to tell him what the movie should look like, you're going to let him run with it."
Like Goyer, del Toro has a passion for comic books. "Guillermo was weaned on comic books, as was I," says Goyer. "I was a huge comic book collector... my brother and I had about twelve thousand comic books that we assembled when we were kids, so I know my background."
Tippett Studio provided computer-generated visual effects, including digital doubles of some of the characters.
Filming took place in Prague, Czech Republic including the Barrandov Studios, as well as London from March 12, 2001 and concluded July 2, 2001. - Wikipedia.

 The opening shot. Night tram passing through Paris Street, where's the blood bank and drug dealers.

 Prvního pluku 23.

Blade's coming home (Deleted Scene).

Crossroads of Národní and Masarykovo nábř.

 

in the background you can see National Memorial on the Vítkov Hill.

It was featured in del Toro's next film Hellboy.

 

Chicago 1982 (Deleted Scene).

Malého 3.

Sunset time lapse.

Petrské náměstí 4.

The skeleton men eat a drug dealer.

  Ul. Prvního pluku, křižovatka Sokolovská.

Visiting Filming Locations of "Hellboy" (2004) in Prague, Czech Republic

Directed by Guillermo del Toro.
Produced by Lawrence Gordon, Mike Richardson & Lloyd Levin.
Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro.
Story by Guillermo del Toro & Peter Briggs Based on Hellboy by Mike Mignola.
Starring Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Jeffrey Tambor, Doug Jones, Rupert Evans, John Hurt.

Hellboy is a 2004 American supernatural superhero film, starring Ron Perlman and directed by Guillermo del Toro. The film is loosely based on the Dark Horse Comics graphic novel Hellboy: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola.
It was produced by Revolution Studios, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The film is about a demonic beast turned into superhero, known as Hellboy, who secretly works to keep the world safe from paranormal threats with his team, the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense. -Wikipedia.

The biggest challenge for the location scouting was finding an area to film the New Jersey rooftop scene as it was proven that Prague didn't have many locations that can serve as an American city.
After many false starts, Del Toro finally found the right street for the scene to be filmed in which had to be redressed to look more American. -iMDB.

John Thaddeus Myers (Rupert Evans), a young FBI agent arrives to the BPRD Agency.

(National Memorial on the Vítkov Hill)

Inside the Building.

 The first gig. (The Ministry of Transport /Ministerstvo Dopravy Ceské Republiky).

Hellboy meets Liv at Bellamie Psychiatric Hospital. (Karlínská invalidovna)
The same location has been used in Amadeus (1984).

Back at the Viktov Hill.

 That New Jersey rooftop scene.

In the background you can see Kostel sv. Gabriela and street is Grafická.

 While filming, it was a empty lot, now there's a building.

Pic from Google StreetView.

Trevor Bruttenholm's Funeral at Viktov Hill.