WEEK: October 7-13, 2013.
Sunday, October 13th – Once Upon a Time 3×03 Quite a Common Fairy airs on ABC and CTV. In the Jolly Roger gang’s continuing quest… Read More »WEEK: October 7-13, 2013.
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WEEK: September 30 – October 6, 2013.
Sunday, October 6th – Once Upon a Time 3×02 Lost Girl airs on ABC and CTV. Peter Pan (Robbie Kay) offers Emma (Jennifer Morrison) a map… Read More »WEEK: September 30 – October 6, 2013.
SHOOT: Olivia Cooke & Max Thieriot Film BATES MOTEL on Steveston Pier for 2×07
Update: Emma (Olivia Cooke) came to find Dylan (Max Thieriot) to tell him that Norman (Freddie Highmore) was in police custody after the death of… Read More »SHOOT: Olivia Cooke & Max Thieriot Film BATES MOTEL on Steveston Pier for 2×07
WEEK: September 16-22, 2013
Sunday, September 22nd – Bates Motel‘s Vera Farmiga among Best Actress nominees at the Emmy awards. [Update: Claire Danes won for Homeland]. Sunday, September 22nd… Read More »WEEK: September 16-22, 2013
SHOOT: Emilie de Ravin & JoAnna Garcia Film ONCE UPON A TIME at Garry Point Park in Steveston
Once Upon a Time is back in Steveston as Storybrooke today. Yes, Once Upon a Time. It’s been a long hiatus for fans. And this… Read More »SHOOT: Emilie de Ravin & JoAnna Garcia Film ONCE UPON A TIME at Garry Point Park in Steveston
WEEK: August 5-11, 2013.
Sunday, August 11th – Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi thriller Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Jodi Foster, tops weekend box office with estimated US$30.5 million and Percy Jackson:… Read More »WEEK: August 5-11, 2013.
SHOOT: ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND’S Knave of Hearts in Storybrooke, aka Steveston
What is Once Upon a Time in Wonderland’s Knave of Hearts doing in Storybrooke? Speculation is that’s where he is when he hears that Alice… Read More »SHOOT: ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND’S Knave of Hearts in Storybrooke, aka Steveston
BIG READ: U.S. Military Vs GODZILLA Moves On From Vancouver Area & Vancouver Island
Published June 27, 2013 on Vancouver is Awesome After a three month-plus shoot here, the 3D Godzilla reboot wraps filming this week in Vancouver and moves on… Read More »BIG READ: U.S. Military Vs GODZILLA Moves On From Vancouver Area & Vancouver Island
SHOOT: GODZILLA’s Japanese Nuclear Power Plant & its Quarantine Zone (in New Westminster)
Does the 3D Godzilla movie reboot reflect the real world event of Japan’s 2011 earthquake/tsunami and the resulting nuclear crisis at some of the country’s older nuclear power plants? Is that the “contemporary issue” screenwriter Frank Darabont spoke of? It would seem so. “6.3 Earthquake Rocks Eastern Japan” said the news crawl on set screens at the Vancouver Convention Centre dressed as the Honolulu airport at the start of filming here in mid-March.
Janjira appears to be the fictional nuclear power plant in this modern-day re-imagining of the radioactive Japanese sea monster as a “terrifying force of nature”.
Godzilla used an abandoned Coquitlam paper recycling plant on the Fraser River to film a couple of weeks of scenes of the Janjira nuclear power station at risk of meltdown with radioactive leaks. Is this what wakes Godzilla (plural) from their slumber?
Related: Coquitlam paper recycling plant as Japanese nuclear power plant
Since Coquitlam, the Janjira plant has been played by an industrial building on Annacis Island and its offices by Nokia in Burnaby’s Glenlyon Business Park. Godzilla also used Steveston’s Japanese Cultural Centre to double as the Janjira International School Read More »SHOOT: GODZILLA’s Japanese Nuclear Power Plant & its Quarantine Zone (in New Westminster)