Longtime mainstream media (MSM) journalist and author Susan Gittins began writing about and photographing Vancouver’s many film and TV location shoots in the summer of 2010 after the Winter Olympics put the city and its beauty on the world stage. Movies and TV series often showcase the Vancouver area in similar fashion. Vancouver is Awesome commissioned her YVRShoots series in the fall of 2010 and it ran regularly for three years. She launched her own daily YVRShoots blog in the spring of 2012.
Six weeks of talks between the writers union (Writers Guild of America) and eight studios (Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney-ABC, NBC Universal, Paramount-CBS, Warner Bros Discovery, Sony) ended last night and the writers voted unanimously to call a strike as their three-year contract expired.
Shaun’s a Dad. In tonight’s The Good Doctor season 6 finale, Lea (Paige Spara) and Shaun (Freddie Highmore) welcome their son Steven Aaron Murphy.
Pedro Pascal may film the sequel to 2001 Oscar-winner Gladiator during his hiatus from HBO’s smash hit The Last of Us, which doesn’t begin production of season 2 in B.C. until next year.
Rob Delaney’s Peter, an endearing X-Force everyman with no special skills or superpowers, will return for Deadpool 3, joining Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman and others filming the Marvel movie in London this spring and summer.
Mr. Monk’s Last Case, a Peacock reunion movie for the hit USA mystery series starring Tony Shalhoub, starts filming in Toronto.
Time to Float. Max’s IT prequel series Welcome to Derry has now started their filming in Toronto starring Jason Fuchs and Brad Caleb Kane.
The Joy Ride quartet — Sherry Cola, Ashley Park, Stephanie Hsu and Sabrina Wu – was named Comedy Ensemble of the Year at CinemaCon on Thursday.
The latest horror movie in the Final Destination franchise is filming in Vancouver this summer. And apparently, it doesn’t open with a cruise ship disaster.
Return to Neverland — played by British Columbia and Newfoundland — in the new Peter Pan & Wendy movie now streaming on Disney+.