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.
Update: Wayward Pines is building a new town set on the CMPP Studios back lot in south Burnaby. Someone from Group C is going to… Read More »CASTING: Jason Patric Cast as New Lead in WAYWARD PINES Season 2 Filming in Vancouver
Team Bear from The Revenant won’t be at tomorrow’s SPARK FX conference in Vancouver but Team Ava from Ex Machina will be represented, and there… Read More »VFX: STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS, EX-MACHINA & MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Panels at SPARK FX 2016 in Vancouver
Correction: Speculated that The BFG might be the Disney production filming additional photography here in March but it’s not them. Pirates of the Caribbean 5… Read More »TEASER: Steven Spielberg’s THE BFG With Mark Rylance & Ruby Burnhill
Updated with revised dates: Are you ready for more Fifty Shades in Vancouver? Look for Seattle-billionaire-with-singular-tastes Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) and the-girl-who-said-No Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson)… Read More »POLLING: FIFTY SHADES DARKER Expected to Film Ana Steele (Dakota Johnson) & Others in Gastown From Mid-February For 3 Weeks
Fargo show runner Noah Hawley knows how to cast. Dan Stevens will play Charles Xavier’s son David Haller and the multiple-personality mutant Legion — whose… Read More »CASTING: Noah Hawley’s LEGION Casts Dan Stevens as David Haller/Mutant Legion Filming in Vancouver
1st Due Media video. [sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7u8ZwRbWDY” /] It looks like War for the Planet of the Apes set off its huge SPFX explosion of a… Read More »SHOOT: WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES Big SPFX Explosions of A Train Oil Tanker at South Richmond Set
Dinner with the Wayward Daughters. Supernatural’s Sam and Dean (Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles) join Jody Mills (Kim Rhodes) and two teenage girls, Claire (Kathryn… Read More »TONIGHT: SUPERATURAL’s Wayward Daughters — Sheriff Mills (Kim Rhodes), Claire (Kathryn Newton) & Alex (Katherine Ramdeen)
The Revenant Bear is killing it, winning outstanding animated performance last night at the Visual Effects Society Awards over The Avengers’ Hulk, Chappie, and Star… Read More »VFX: THE REVENANT Bear Bests Chappie, the Hulk & Maz at the Visual Effects Society Awards
Lionsgate’s big-budget Power Rangers movie has cast Elizabeth Banks (actress and director of Pitch Perfect 2) as the villainous Rita Repulsa, joining Becky G as the… Read More »CASTING: POWER RANGERS Movie Casts Elizabeth Banks as Villain Rita Repulsa To Film in Vancouver