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.
FOX summer TCA panel, August 1, 2013. Showrunner J.H. Wyman confirmed what was suspected in Vancouver. The pilot that people have seen in screeners and… Read More »TCA NEWS: ALMOST HUMAN Reshot Some of its Vancouver Pilot This Summer
The CW summer TCA panel. July 30, 2013. Showrunners Greg Berlanti (Arrow) and Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries) told the TCA they have been talking… Read More »TCA NEWS: THE TOMORROW PEOPLE is The CW’s Bid for Sci-fi Audience This Fall
Sunday, August 4th – The Killing’s 2-hour season three finale From Up Here/The Road to Hamelin airs on AMC. Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman) meets with girlfriend… Read More »WEEK: July 29 – August 4, 2013
Big Eyes began its 4-day shoot in Gastown dressed as the San Francisco Arts District this past week with scenes of Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz)… Read More »SHOOT: BIG EYES Turns Gastown Building into San Francisco’s Keane Gallery with Christoph Waltz
Big Eyes set up a block of Powell Street in Gastown as the San Francisco Arts District last Tuesday for scenes of Walter Keane (Christoph… Read More »SHOOT: BIG EYES Turns Gastown Store into San Francisco Art Gallery with Jason Schwartzman
It was the talk of San Diego Comic-Con: how will former angel Castiel cope with the filth of being human? It won’t be easy but… Read More »SHOOT: SUPERNATURAL’s Castiel (Misha Collins) Does Laundry in New Westminster
Published August 1, 2013 on Vancouver is Awesome. A local biopic of 19th-century-photographer, cinema pioneer and murderer Eadweard Muybridge wraps filming today in Vancouver. Muybridge got… Read More »BIG READ: Vancouver Indie EADWEARD Stars Michael Eklund as Photographer, Cinema Pioneer & Murderer
Already renewed for a third season on Showcase in Canada, Continuum was picked up for a third season on Syfy in the U.S. today. Some… Read More »RENEWED: Syfy Picks Up CONTINUUM For Third Season in the U.S.
How did Tim Burton keep a straight face directing this Big Eyes scene? Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz), owner of the now more-successful Keane Gallery, taunts… Read More »SHOOT: Tim Burton Directs Christoph Waltz & Jason Schwartzman as Rival Gallery Owners for BIG EYES in Gastown