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.
Tonight’s Vancouver whydunit Motive had this scene of murder suspect Eric Sharpe (Ryan Robbins) arrested and marched out of his photography studio on the west… Read More »SHOOT: Ryan Robbins & Kacey Rohl Film MOTIVE Season 3 at Former Pappas Furs Building in Vancouver
At Cineplex Odeon International Village in Vancouver: 12:20-3:00-5:35-8:05-10:45. Tweet from Continuum star Rachel Nichols. So excited to see @Preggoland and the amazing @sonjabennett123 tonight. Go… Read More »IN THEATRES: Fake Pregnancy Comedy PREGGOLAND with Sonja Bennett in Theatres Today
Will there be zombie herds on the streets of Vancouver this month? Not right away. Fear The Walking Dead — expected to film here from… Read More »START DATE: Zombie Herds in Vancouver? FEAR THE WALKING DEAD Expected to Start Filming May 10th
Everyone Will be Exposed. Marti Noxon’s dramedy UnReal is about a Bachelor-esqe dating show called Everlasting where producer Rachel Goldberg (Shiri Appleby)’s job is to… Read More »SEASON PREMIERE: Dating Show Dramedy UnREAL with Shiri Appleby Premieres June 1st on Lifetime
Update: The Flash won for Best Superhero TV series, Wentworth Miller for his guest performance on The Flash and The 100 for Best Youth-Oriented Series.… Read More »SATURN AWARDS: CONTINUUM, Carlton Cuse (BATES MOTEL & THE RETURNED), Grant Gustin (THE FLASH) & Noah Wyle (FALLING SKIES) are Special Awards Honourees
Mommy Ever since Xavier Dolan’s Mommy won a special Jury Prize at Cannes and swept the Canadian Screen Awards, I’ve looked for a way to… Read More »CANADIAN FILM DAY: Mommy, Songs She Wrote About People She Knows, The Valley Below, Ben’s At Home, Being Canadian & Violent at VanCity Theatre
The frantic but fun American TV pilot season in metro Vancouver is over for another year and now we wait until May for the networks to… Read More »TV PILOTS: The CW’s LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, NBC’s HEARTBREAKER, ABC’s THE FAMILY & 6 Other Pilots Vie For Network Slots at NYC Upfronts in May
Dead Rising: Watchtower — dubbed “Indiana Jones with Zombies” — gets a sequel expected to stream on Crackle in the Spring of 2016. Based on the hit… Read More »SEQUEL: Crackle’s DEAD RISING: WATCHTOWER With Jesse Metcalfe Gets Sequel Expected to Stream in 2016
Hello Mrs. Robinson. As part of a promotion for the upcoming Fifty Shades of Grey blu-ray release, Universal shared kinky Seattle billionaire Christian Grey (Jamie… Read More »PROMO: FIFTY SHADES DARKER with Jamie Dornan & Dakota Johnson In Theatres February 2017