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SHOOT: Run Emma Run! ONCE UPON A TIME’s Jennifer Morrison Running in Gastown for 2×14

Run Emma Run! In Once Upon a Time 2×14 Manhattan, Emma (Jennifer Morrison) chases a man in a grey hoodie  — who she thinks could be Rumple’s son Bae —  through SoHo in New York City (Gastown in Vancouver). He jumps from an old wrought iron fire escape staircase down onto the street below (Powell Street), runs along the sidewalk and through a cobbled square (Maple Tree Square) dodging yellow NYC taxi-cabs, past SoParlo Boots (prop sign) into a corridor (Gaelor’s Mews) of stores and restaurants until she tackles him in an alley (east end of Trounce Alley in Blood Alley Square).

Once Upon a Time filmed this foot chase in mid-December in four legs with Jennifer Morrison doing all her own running stunts and some of the tackling. The day started  in reverse with the Emma stunt double tackling the Grey-Hoodie-Man stunt double in the east end of Trounce Alley, followed by a dialogue scene of Morrison getting up from the ground, seeing the actor (not stunt double) who she’d tackled and talking to him. Each time the two actors finished a take they dissolved into fits of laughter. The Trounce Alley part of the foot chase sequence was closed to the public but I could see  the two actors’ heads through  the glass windows of  a restaurant from the south end of  the Coffee Bar. I stayed at my Coffee Bar window seat  to watch the next leg of  Morrison running from prop SoParlo Boots on Carrall Street  right past me through Gaelor’s Mews.  Don’t listen to anyone who says Morrison is a diva. None of the Once Upon a Time cast are from what I’ve seen. Morrison did all of Emma’s running in take after take. Smiling and laughing from the exhilaration.

Next came the big public scene of Jennifer Morrison chasing  the Grey-Hoodie-Man stunt double  though Maple Tree Square dodging yellow NYC taxi cabs and other prop vehicles in front of spectators, fans and photographers. She did it once in rehearsal with the Emma stunt double leading the way. Read More »SHOOT: Run Emma Run! ONCE UPON A TIME’s Jennifer Morrison Running in Gastown for 2×14

WEEK: February 4-10, 2013

  • Sunday, February 10th – Once Upon a Time 2×13 Tiny airs with Jorge Garcia’s Anton the Giant held captive on Hook’s pirate ship and then rampaging through Storybrooke. Plus we learn Charming’s real name.
  • Sunday, February 10th – Motive 1×2 airs on CTV with scenes of Kristin Lehman filmed in the Olympic Village.
  • Sunday, February 10th – Battlestar Galactica prequel pilot Blood and Chrome starring Ben Cotton finally airs on Syfy. #ThereWillBeCylons.
  • Saturday, February 9th – New survey says 3 out of 4 British Columbians strongly support government tax incentives to help the BC film & TV production industry. Global TV report #SaveBCFilm
  • Saturday, February 9th – Vancouver-filmed hunting-accident-gone-wrong A Single Shot with Sam Rockwell debuts at Berlin International Film Festival
  • Friday, February 8th – New York Times paid a set visit to Continuum in Squamish last week and came away impressed with Vancouver’s cop from the future series.
  • Friday, February 8th – Deadline Hollywood confirms Chin Han (The Dark Knight) cast on Arrow as Frank Chen, an old friend of the Queen family and part of the nefarious group The Undertaking. This is the mysterious Asian man spotted at the Westin Bayshore Hotel shoot.
  • Friday, February 8th – CW pilot The Hundred–100 juvenile delinquents sent back to Earth after nuclear war–appears on BC Production List. To film from March 14th to April 4th.
  • Friday, February 8th – Once Upon a Time films in Lynn Canyon Park in North Vancouver.
  • Friday, February 8th – TV Line reports Max Fowler (The Hour) cast as Twitch on season 3 of The Killing
  • Thursday, February 7th – Once Upon a Time turns Gastown into Manhattan again to film scenes for 2×18 Selfless, Brave and True.
  • Thursday, February 7th – Mayor Gregor Robertson talks #SaveBCFilm on Breakfast Television.
  • Thursday, February 7th – Once Upon a Time films in Lynn Canyon Park in North Vancouver.
  • Wednesday, February 6th – Psycho prequel Bates Motel with Freddie Highmore & Vera Farmiga wraps filming of its first season in Vancouver.
  • Wednesday, February 6th – Arctic Air 2×5 has big fight scenes filmed in Langley Airport hangar with former amateur boxer Aleks Paunovic in the ring. Read More »WEEK: February 4-10, 2013

PROMOS: SUPERNATURAL 8×14 Trial and Error Promo Images

UPDATE: “If you try to follow me I’ll put a bullet in your damn leg,.” — Dean telling Sam that he loves him.

Some Supernatural fans worried that the new Men of Letters mythology would negate the tablets storyline. Apparently not, as prophet Kevin Tran (Osric Chau) returns next Wednesday to tell Sam and Dean (Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles) that he has translated his tablet and found a way to close the gates of Hell. One person has to complete three tasks designed by God, including killing a hellhound. Sam and Dean argue about who should do them.

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SHOOT: Rachel Nichols and Victor Webster Film CONTINUUM 2×01 at the Vancouver Public Library – Updated

Updated April 21, 2013

Rachel Nichols will hijack Continuum’s official Twitter account @ContinuumSeries at 3 p.m. PT today to answer any questions you may have about her cop-from-the-corporate future show now airing its first season on Syfy in the U.S. Continuum is about CPS officer Kiera Cameron who travels back in time from Vancouver in the year 2077 to Vancouver present-day, caught up in an escape by a group of terrorists — Liber8 — who plan to change the future from the past by targeting the corporations which will come to rule the world.

Continuum began to film its second season here a couple of weeks ago on its police station set at the Plaza of Nations downtown. Often on location, the show was then spotted in Vanier Park filming near the Burrard Bridge and later shooting a stunt-fight in the CBC Vancouver parking garage with Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nicols) in her black hi-tech cat suit. [Update: The following week, the New York Times paid a set visit to Squamish where Continuum was filming scenes involving a helicopter and a wind tunnel.]

Related:  Rain Towers & Stunt for Rachel Nichols at CBC Vancouver

Related: Invisible Green Skin Suit Fighting at CBC Vancouver

On Monday, Kiera Cameron’s Vancouver police partner Carlos Fonnegra (Victor Webster) joined her at a crime scene in Robson Square at the iconic Vancouver Public Library (aka Fringe Division Headquarters for Fringe fans). Someone is shot at a press conference and the detective duo try to determine where the shot came from. I’m embarrassed to admit that three of us watching could end up as unfocused Lookyloos at the crime scene filmed by a steadi-cam crew circling  Nichols and Webster as they looked up at nearby rooftops. We wondered if we were in the camera shot but assumed we would have been asked to move. I like to think that I’m smarter about stuff like this on set, but apparently not.

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PROMOS: ARROW 1×14 The Odyssey Promo Images

In next Wednesday’s Arrow, Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell)’s life hangs in the balance. His mother (Susanna Thompson) shoots him after he confronts her dressed as The Hood at Queen Consolidated. And he turns to fan favourite  Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards)  for help. She brings him to  Diggle (David Ramsey) at the warehouse.

© 2013 The CW Television Network

Delirious in the warehouse, Oliver remembers back on the Island when he tried to escape with a new ally Slade Wilson (Manu Bennett), Read More »PROMOS: ARROW 1×14 The Odyssey Promo Images

SHOOT: Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki & the Impala Film SUPERNATURAL 8×17 Downtown

Goodbye Stranger, aired March 20th, 2013

A family visiting from Australia lucked out today when they stumbled on Supernatural filming  in downtown Vancouver to the joy of their 16-year-old son. They didn’t realize how rare it is to see the Winchester brothers (Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki) in the Impala  downtown. Ackles did the driving as usual, reversing  the Impala south down the 1100 block of Hornby Street and then roaring back north and pulling into a spot opposite the Murray Hotel, next to a bike lane. The two Js then ran across the street into the hotel in take after take.

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SHOOT: Josh Dallas, Ginnifer Goodwin & Colin O’Donoghue Filming on ONCE UPON A TIME Pirate Ship Set in Steveston for 2×13

While  Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold, Emma, and Henry leave Storybrooke to find Rumple’s long-lost son Bae in Manhattan, Anton the Giant  (Jorge Garcia) is held captive on Captain Hook (Colin O’Donoughue)’s pirate ship at the Storybrooke docks.

ABC shared some photos with TVLine last week of Charming and Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin)  in a confrontation with Anton, the Giant on the  ship. I arrived too late to see them filming these on the  floating priate ship set at the Britannia Heritage Shipyard set in Steveston last December (I’d been  downtown in Gastown watching OUAT’s first unit filming Manhattan scenes).  I  did get  there in time to  see Ginnifer Goodwin (wrapped in a red plaid blanket) come off the dock and pose for photos with waiting fans taken by Josh Dallas. Lucky fans. 

Bringing the floating set back to dock.

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WEEK: January 28 – February 3, 2013