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.
Season 13 of Hallmark’s long-running period drama about school teacher Elizabeth Thornton (Erin Krakow) and the town of Hope Vally now in the 1920s, goes… Read More »WHEN CALLS THE HEART Season 13 With Erin Krakow Goes into Production This July in Langley
Let’s make a Karate Kid. Two franchises converge as Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio team up to train newcomer Ben Wang in the Montreal-filmed feature… Read More »Montreal-Filmed KARATE KID LEGENDS With Jackie Chan, Ralph Macchio & Ben Wang in Theatres
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If I were out there somewhere, lost and in trouble you would set the world on fire to save me — Jesse. to Ellie. Bella… Read More »THE LAST OF US Finale: Ellie & Jesse in Vancouver’s Orpheum Theatre as Pinnacle Theater
As we head back to the Pinnacle Theater for The Last of Us season 2 finale, let’s look at how production turned Superman & Lois’s… Read More »THE LAST OF US Shot Pinnacle Theater Exteriors on SUPERMAN & LOIS’s Smallville Set
BC-shot Final Destination: Bloodlines is the #1 movie in the world this week with an opening weekend box office of US$100 million. How did Final… Read More »#1 Movie FINAL DESTINATION BLOODLINES: How SkyView Was Filmed In Vancouver
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