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.
Yeah female directors! Yeah Vancouver! Canadian Michelle MacLaren will direct the next big comic adaption Cowboy Ninja Viking with Chris Pratt in Vancouver. Michelle MacLaren… Read More »BIG MOVIE: Canadian Michelle MacLaren Will Direct COWBOY NINJA VIKING With Chris Pratt in Vancouver
Rob Lowe will do double duty on a reimagining of the cult horror film The Bad Seed. Lowe will direct and star as the father… Read More »TV MOVIE: Rob Lowe Coming to Vancouver to Direct & Star in Lifetime’s THE BAD SEED Later This Month
The Riverdale family expands with a new series. Look for a dark take on teenage witch Sabrina to start filming in Vancouver in mid-March. Kiernan… Read More »NEW SERIES: RIVERDALE Spinoff SABRINA With Kiernan Shipka as Teen Witch Confirmed for March Start in Vancouver
Sterling K. Brown, Trevante Rhodes, Boyd Holbrook, Jacob Tremblay, director Shane Black, Olivia Munn, Keegan-Michael Key. The Predator is returning to metro Vancouver in March… Read More »RESHOOTS: THE PREDATOR With Boyd Holbrook, Jacob Tremblay, Sterling K. Brown, Olivia Munn Returns to Vancouver For Reshoots in March
You’ve built the tallest, most advanced building in the world but you’ve brought with it every single safety and security challenge I can think of.… Read More »BIG MOVIE: SKYSCRAPER Teaser with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to Debut During Superbowl
Dana Scully finally met William, the son she gave up for adoption so many years ago, on tonight’s episode. The 17-year-old, whose adoptive name is… Read More »IT HAPPENED: THE X-FILES Fox Mulder & Dana Scully (David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson) Met William
In the next big comic book adaption Cowboy Ninja Viking, Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy/Jurassic Park) is Duncan, a soldier who becomes a “Triplet”… Read More »BIG MOVIE: Is Chris Pratt Coming to Vancouver to Film COWBOY NINJA VIKING in Early June?
It’s Veronica’s communion tonight. Which explains why all the boys were in suits at set last Fall. Archie (KJ Apa), Kevin (Casey Cott) and even… Read More »TONIGHT: Veronica Lodge’s Communion on RIVERDALE Filmed at Saint Francis of Assisi & Reception at The Permanent
Fake snow. Fake bills. Fake guns. And a real Jeff Bridges as a 1950s armoured car robber in a heist gone wrong at Christmas. Drew… Read More »BIG MOVIE: Jeff Bridges As a Bank Robber in BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE in Agassiz