WEEK: May 12-18, 2014
Sunday, May 18th – Godzilla is a monster hit with a sequel underway after US$103 million international opening weekend, the biggest opening of 2014 so far,… Read More »WEEK: May 12-18, 2014
Sunday, May 18th – Godzilla is a monster hit with a sequel underway after US$103 million international opening weekend, the biggest opening of 2014 so far,… Read More »WEEK: May 12-18, 2014
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj0l7iGKh8g” /] The Flash, starring Grant Gustin as the Speedster, will air Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. this Fall on The CW. And it’s… Read More »TRAILER: THE FLASH With Grant Gustin to Air Tuesdays at 8 on The CW
For TV pilots, the DC adaption The Flash was a sure thing from the get-go and so it’s not a huge surprise that The CW… Read More »NEW SERIES: The CW Orders The FLASH with Grant Gustin To Series
J2 (Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki) in the Impala. It’s a Supernatural fan’s dream. And it happened this morning under the Georgia and Dunsmuir Viaducts in… Read More »SHOOT: SUPERNATURAL’s Jensen Ackles & Jared Padalecki Back in the Impala Under Georgia Viaduct
Sunday, March 16th – Continuum season 3 premiere Minute by Minute airs on Showcase. Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols) jeopardizes everything to stop young Alec Sadler (Erik Knudsen) from… Read More »WEEK: March 10-16, 2014
Sunday, March 9th – Once Upon a Time 3×12 New York City Serenade airs on ABC and CTV. Hook (Colin O’ Donoghue) goes to New York… Read More »WEEK: March 3-9, 2014
Barry Allen (Gleek charming Grant Gustin) was such a smash hit on his two-episode arc on Arrow that The CW scrapped plans to film a… Read More »SHOOT: CW Pilot THE FLASH’s Grant Gustin in Simulated Car Wreck & SPFX Explosion Near Dunsmuir Viaduct
Published February 7, 2012 on Vancouver is Awesome
The return of Kate Beckinsale and her cat suit powered supernatural thriller Underworld Awakening to a weekend North American box office win of $25 million+ for its late January opening but critics blasted the fourth installment of the franchise for its weak storyline. U4 box office halved for its second weekend and then halved again last weekend. I saw the film last week in 3D and enjoyed watching Beckinsale and her stunt double playing kickass-cool vampire Selene and Simon Fraser University as its unmistakable self playing nefarious bio-tech company Antigen.
Vengeance Returns is the Underworld Awakening tagline. Here is a plot synopsis with spoilers: Not long after the events of Underworld Evolution, vampire Selene and her hybrid vampire/Lycan lover Michael Corvin are captured during The Purge, a crusade by humans to rid the world of vampires and Lycans (evolved werewolfs who can shift between wolf and human form). Twelve years later, Selene is freed from cryogenic suspension in Antigen headquarters by her and Corvin’s vampire/Lycan hybrid daughter Eve — a daughter Selene never knew she had with a lover who appears to be dead. Antigen claims to be developing an antidote for the virus that creates vampires and Lycans, but is really run by Lycans who are injecting Eve’s hybrid blood into themselves to create a race of super Lycans, impervious to silver and with enhanced abilities and size.
Unfortunately Scott Speedman declined to return as Selene’s lover Michael Corvin in the fourth film so we only see him in flashbacks or as a blurred figure in Underworld Awakening. New to this Vancouver-shot movie franchise about vampires and werewolves that predates the Twilight craze is human Detective Sebastian played by Michael Ealy of The Good Wife (see photo below).
After a brief recap of the Underworld saga so far, the new film opens with scenes of a genocide of not one but two species — vampires and Lycans — that was filmed mainly downtown. For example, crew set up a security checkpoint with police/SWAT extras on Hamilton Street outside Pappas Furs for filming on May 1st last year. Read More »BIG READ: Making of UNDERWORLD AWAKENING