Updated: Supernatural’s Jensen Ackles directs Jared Padalecki, Ruth Connell and himself/stunt double this afternoon in a downtown Vancouver alley for the third episode of season… Read More »SHOOT: SUPERNATURAL’s Jensen Ackles Directs Jared Padalecki & Ruth Connell in Downtown Vancouver Alley
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M_GN_VQano” /] Update: Castiel (Misha Collins) and Sam & Dean Winchester (Jared Padalecki & Jensen Ackles) retrace Claire Novak (Kathryn Love Newton)’s steps for… Read More »SHOOT: SUPERNATURAL’s Misha Collins in Main Street’s Brickhouse Late Nite Bistro as Susie’s Bar for 10×20
Supernatural had a night shoot in an alley last night. How many have there been over going-on ten seasons? But this one was special: a quadfecta with… Read More »SHOOT: SUPERNATURAL’s Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins & Impala in East Vancouver Alley
Rainn Wilson (The Office/Six Feet Under) is Backstrom in Bones showrunner Hart Hanson’s CBS pilot, based on the books of a real-life Swedish criminologist. Here are… Read More »SHOOT: Rainn Wilson & Dennis Haysbert Film Pilot BACKSTROM in Downtown Vancouver Alley
While the two Js — Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles — provided eye candy for the People’s Choice Awards cameras last Wednesday night, Supernatural crew set up a shoot in the alley next to Century House downtown. Is the young lady with the fishnet stockings and pink platform-heeled shoes, Supernatural’s Kill of the Week? The man she chats with does walk away after their encounter, leaving her still standing, so we will have to wait and see. When the Winchester brothers did return to Vancouver, happy with the show’s two PCA wins — for Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV show and Favorite TV Fan Following — Supernatural crew had moved out of the alley and into Century House for Thursday and Friday afternoon and night shoots. Nothing was visible from the outside of this heritage granite building so there are no clues as to what went down under its Victorian chandeliers.
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Another day of filming of Arrow. Another day of stunts. It’s non-stop action for this kick-ass show. Today started with the Oliver Queen stunt double climbing up a wall in a downtown alley, soon to be replaced by Oliver Queen himself, Stephen Amell.
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Is the cast of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters always running? It seems that way but that’s based only on a handful of scenes I’ve seen… Read More »PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS: What are they doing to Grover in a Downtown Vancouver Alley?
Arrow, based on DC Comics The Green Arrow, is one hot TV pilot. And by all accounts, Stephen Amell is one hot Arrow in this more Jason Bourne-like and less Smallville-ish production. Like The Dark Knight’s re-imagined Batman, Arrow’s vigilante superhero fights crime with martial arts and technology plus the special skill of archery. “Working theory: The most expedient way to shoot a show where I’m an expert at archery is to become an expert an archery,” Amell tweeted in late February. And he must have hit the gym too. “You should see what’s under that hood……you’ve never seen ripped until you’ve seen this guy,” tweeted Arrow fight coordinator James Bamford.
None of my photographs do justice to how much Stephen Amell resembles a Jason Bourne-type action star. This is the closest I came with Amell in character as his secret identity Oliver Queen, crouched in Gastown before filming a take with Katie Cassidy as his former love Dinah “Laurel” Lance.
Pre-production set up on the same lot near a Burnaby Skytrain station that served as a Smallville permanent set for years. Filming on the Arrow pilot started on March 10th inside the Terminal City Ironworks complex in east Vancouver. The next morning, I missed an exterior scene of Oliver Queen jumping over the gate at the TCI entrance on Victoria Drive, but did spot the Oliver green arrow production sign on a walkby.
The next day, March 12th, Arrow set up at the foot of Gore Avenue in the Downtown Eastside during a wild west coast windstorm. Background performers dressed as homeless street peoople huddled around a fake fire and tried to keep their costumes intact in the wind. Stephen Amell and Colin Donnell, as his best friend and trustafarian Tommy Merlyn, were more sheltered, filming scenes inside Merlyn’s ride, a Mercedes 2012 SLS AMG ,with two wings and cockpit, as the ad says. Tents almost went airborne and Amell and Donnell looked like they were finally feeling the cold while waiting for their ride back to circus.
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