Longtime mainstream media (MSM) journalist and author Susan Gittins began writing about and photographing Vancouver’s many film and TV location shoots in the summer of 2010 after the Winter Olympics put the city and its beauty on the world stage. Movies and TV series often showcase the Vancouver area in similar fashion. Vancouver is Awesome commissioned her YVRShoots series in the fall of 2010 and it ran regularly for three years. She launched her own daily YVRShoots blog in the spring of 2012.
Here’s comedian Kevin James, director Luke Greenfield and Reacher’s Alan Ritchson filming their Dads action comedy Playdate in Vancouver. Two stay-at-home dads are at a… Read More »PLAYDATE in Vancouver: Kevin James, Director Luke Greenfield & Alan Ritchson
Vancouver crime drama Sight Unseen, about a blind, former homicide detective (Dolly Lewis) solving cases with the help of a visual assistance guide (Agam Darshi)… Read More »Vancouver Crime Series SIGHT UNSEEN With Blind Detective Debuts on CW
These two boys are cheating Death — Supernatural’s Ruth Connell as the demon Night Nurse. BC-filmed supernatural series Dead Boy Detectives, starring George Rexstrew, Jayden Revri… Read More »BC-Filmed DEAD BOY DETECTIVES Trailer: Meet Demon Night Nurse
The Last of Us’s Gabriel Luna, who plays Tommy Miller, and Rutina Wesley, who plays his wife Maria Miller, look alive and well so far… Read More »THE LAST OF US Season 2’s “Tommy & Maria Miller” in Vancouver
Director Joachim Rønning shared an image of Tron: Ares in downtown Vancouver last night for the first of five overnight shoots this week. The first… Read More »TRON: ARES – First of 5 Overnight Shoots in Downtown Vancouver This Week
The Dakota Fanning horror film Vicious reveals more cast. Kathryn Hunter, Mary McCormack, Rachel Blanchard, Devyn Nekoda, Klea Scott and Emily Mitchell join Fanning in… Read More »Dakota Fanning Horror Film VICIOUS Adds Cast in Ottawa
Jared Leto walked out arm-in-arm with Vanna White yesterday as a surprise replacement for Pat Sajak in Wheel of Fortune’s pre-taped April Fool’s prank. Leto… Read More »TRON 3’s Jared Leto Hosts WHEEL OF FORTUNE in Pre-Taped April Fool’s Prank
You can see why 6′ 5″ tall Jacob Elordi is well cast as Frankenstein’s monster in this photo taken at Toronto’s Pai restaurant. The Euphoria,… Read More »Jacob Elordi at Toronto’s Pai With FRANKENSTEIN Director Guillermo del Toro
Chance Perdomo died after a motorcycle accident in upstate New York on Friday night. Related: Chance Perdomo Dies in Accident. Gen V & Chilling Adventures… Read More »Remembering Chance Perdomo in Vancouver