- 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: Sea of Monsters, starring Logan Lerman, ranks fourth with US$14.6 million.
- Sunday, August 11th – Cedar Cove 1×05 Suspicious Minds airs on the W network. Bob (Bruce Boxleitner) and Peggy Beldon deal with a suspicious death at their bed and breakfast; Jack (Dylan Neal) struggles with his relationship with his son Eric; Olivia (Andie MacDowell) tries to help Jack by giving Eric a job. And the beautiful backdrop for the Art Walk scenes is North Vancouver’s Deep Cove.
- Saturday, August 10th – Syfy marathon of six final episodes of Primeval: New World starring Niall Matter and Sara Canning.
- Saturday, August 10th – Cedar Cove 1×05 airs on the Hallmark Channel.
- Saturday, August 10th – Canadian Press reports how Elysium‘s Neill Blomkamp used BC Film cast and crew to make his sci-fi movie.
- Saturday, August 10th – Tomorrowland logo unveiled and director Brad Bird and screenwriter Damon Lindelof open mystery box at D23: Disney Fan Expo. EW report.
- Saturday, August 10th – Once Upon a Time showrunners Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz talk about season 3 at Disney Fan Expo and show clip of Rumplestiltskin talking to a Lost Boy named Felix. Apparently, Peter Pan will not be the stuff of children’s bedtime stories. “Neverland is the heart of darkness” where the main characters — Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin), Charming (Josh Dallas), Emma (Jennifer Morrison), Regina (Lana Parrilla), Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle) and Hook (Colin O’Donoghue) — will be stripped down to their true selves. Hollywood Reporter: The Live Feed Report.
- Saturday, August 10th – M. Night Shyamalan’s event series Wayward Pines has casting session for extras at Harrison Hot Springs Resort and Spa.
- Friday, August 9th – Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Jodi Foster, opens in theatres.
- Friday, August 9th – Continuum 2×10 Second Wave airs on Syfy. Kiera (Rachel Nichols) stumbles onto one of Julian (Richard Harmon)’s anti-corporate rallies filmed in Gastown’s Blood Alley Square with 250 police/protester background performers.
- Friday, August 9th – Tomorrowland films overnight in the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Chinatown.
- Friday, August 9th – Tomorrowland films inside and outside the Vancouver Art Gallery.
- Friday, August 9th – Once Upon a Time in Wonderland films a late night shoot at its thatched cottage set .
- Friday, August 9th – Supernatural films Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) in the Impala under the Granville Bridge on Fir Street.
- Friday, August 9th – Tim Burton’s Big Eyes films for fourth day ( August 6-9) at cul-de-sac off SW Marine Drive and Dunbar.
- Friday, August 9th – TVLine shares deleted Once Upon a Time scene of Baelfire (Michael Raymond-James) telling Henry (Jared Gilmore) what Neverland is really like, a deleted scene that will appear on the upcoming DVD/Blu-ray and was filmed on the floating Jolly Roger set at Britannia Heritage Shipyard Park.
- Friday, August 9th – The Wrap reports Juliette Lewis cast in Wayward Pines.
- Friday, August 9th – Bates Motel‘s Carlton Cuse and five other showrunners talk TV in a Twitter age with the NYT.
- Thursday, August 8th – Once Upon a Time in Wonderland films scenes of the Knave of Hearts (Michael Socha) in Steveston as Storybrooke.
- Thursday, August 8th – Tomorrowland films scenes of a boy, young Frank Walker, disembarking from a Greyhound bus and staring in wonder at the 1964 New York World’s Fair set on the Main Mall at the University of British Columbia.
- Thurscay, August 8th – Vancouver whydunnit Motive 1×08 Framed airs on ABC.
- Thursday, August 8th – Almost Human films at Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam.
- Thursday, August 8th – Psych films its Food Truck episode at Leg and Boot Square in south False Creek.
- Thursday, August 8th – EW shares clip of Kirstie Allie in Lifetime movie Baby Sellers.
- Thursday, August 8th – EW shares Once Upon a Time S2 blooper reel from upcoming DVD/Blu-ray.
- Wednesday, August 7th – Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters starring demi-god Logan Lerman (with a cameo from Nathan Fillion) opens in theatres.
- Wednesday, August 7th – Arrow films at the Vancouver Art Gallery with two exterior scenes: one of Quentin Lance (Paul Blackthorne) buying a hotdog and taking it to his squad car and a night shoot on the roof of Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) talking with Lance (Paul Blackthorne).
- Wednesday, August 7th – Tomorrowland films a scene of a boy, aka the young Frank Walker, at their 1964 Greyhound ticket booth set at the University of British Columbia.
- Wednesday, August 7th – Psych films its Food Truck episode with James Roday, Dule Hill and Timothy Omundson at Leg and Boot Square in south False Creek.
- Wednesday, August 7th – Supernatural films on Keefer Street in Chinatown with Misha Collins and then near Oppenheimer Park with Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki on set.
- Wednesday, August 7th – The Tomorrow People films at its regular location, the Burrard Ironworks building near the Main Street Overpass.
- Wednesday, August 7th – Almost Human scheduled for Fall Paley Fest on September 8th, almost 2 months before it debuts on FOX.
- Wednesday, August 7th – EW reports Judy Greer cast on Tomorrowland.
- Wednesday, August 7th – EW reports Jason Doring (Veronica Mars) cast on The Tomorrow People.
- Wednesday, August 7th – CBC’s northern adventure series Arctic Air starts filming its third season.
- Tuesday, August 6th – Supernatural films scenes of Castiel (Misha Collins) rummaging through garbage in a Downtown Eastside alley in the morning and then hiding behind garbage bins under rain towers at night. Other scenes take place inside the old police station on Main Street.
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Tuesday, August 6th – Almost Human with Karl Urban, Michael Ealy & Minka Kelly on set films in Arch Alley near Victory Square, Shanghai Alley in Chinatown and Ginger 62 on Granville Street.
- Tuesday, August 6th – Cedar Cove wraps filming of its first season.
- Tuesday, August 6th – Witches of East End films in Surrey.
- Tuesday, August 6th – EW reports Tahmoh Penikett cast as Fallen Angel on Supernatural.
- Monday, August 5th – King & Maxwell‘s penultimate episode of season one airs on TNT with Jon Tenney and Rebecca Romijn. 1×09 Locked In. The series will air on Showcase in Canada, starting August 27th.
- Monday, August 5th – The Killing season 3 finale ratings, with Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman, on par with season 2.