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.
Whistler. A regular haunt of mine before a knee injury ended my skiing days. Last weekend: the Whistler Film Festival with Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Carlyle,… Read More »ROAD TRIP: SUPERNATURAL’s Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki at Whistler
Kung fu fight in Vancouver Chinatown alley overnight tonight. Bruce Lee origin story Birth of the Dragon is filming a fight sequence choreographed by Corey… Read More »SHOOT: Bruce Lee Origin Story BIRTH OF THE DRAGON Films Kung Fu Fight With Philip Ng & Billy Magnussen in Vancouver’s Chinatown Tonight
How I’ve missed you, Darling! No one wear faux fur better than @VictoriaSmurfit #QueensOfDarkness reunited! @OnceABC pic.twitter.com/uZl1bGPHc5 — Lana Parrilla (@LanaParrilla) December 10, 2015 Remember… Read More »NEXT SPRING: Cruella de Vil (Victoria Smurfit) Returns to ONCE UPON A TIME
Are you a fan of the Lemony Snicket books? Or of the film adaption that starred Jim Carrey as Count Olaf? They tell the story… Read More »NEW SERIES: Netflix’s A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS to Film in Vancouver Next Spring & Summer
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFuumoV8f4o” /] On Arrow’s mid-season finale, Damien Darhk attacked Star City Bay causing havoc at the Oliver Queen Mayoral Campaign’s Clean Up the Bay… Read More »LOCATION: ARROW’s Mid-Season Finale with Stephen Amell & Emily Bett Rickards at Vancouver’s Crab Park
Caitlin Snow versus Barry Allen on Earth 2.0? Are they not friends? Bow-tie and glasses-wearing Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) ran back and forth tonight dodging… Read More »SHOOT: THE FLASH’s Grant Gustin & Danielle Panabaker in Vancouver’s Cathedral Park
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoRI8eKB6bY” /] Did I miss seeing the Darkness filming tonight’s Supernatural mid-season finale twice? Amara (Emily Swallow) terrorized God’s The-End-is-Near locals, filmed in Stanley… Read More »TONIGHT: Lucifer Returns to SUPERNATURAL. And the Darkness Messes With God’s End-is-Near People.
Where are we? Earth 2? Is there a Barry Allen on Earth 2? Is he this glasses, bow-tie, sweater-and-vest-wearing forensic investigator? That’s not the Barry… Read More »SHOOT: THE FLASH’s Grant Gustin, Tom Cavanagh & Carlos Valdes Film at Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre as Earth 2
Are we on Earth 2? Jay Garrick (Teddy Sears) seems to have his speed as he rescues hospital staff from [Geomancer (Adam Stafford), a meta-human who… Read More »SHOOT: THE FLASH’s Jay Garrick (Teddy Sears) & Geomancer (Adam Stafford) Film in Downtown Vancouver