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.
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson is cast as Thor in in.Prime Video’s live-action series of the popular ancient mythology God of War game franchise, filming in Vancouver… Read More »Ólafur Darri Ólafsson Cast as Thor in GOD OF WAR Filming in BC
Season 4 of horror hit FROM, starring Harold Perrineau as the protector of a town terrorized when the sun goes down, premieres April 19th on… Read More »FROM Season 4 With Harold Perrineau Premieres This April: Filmed in Halifax
Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh’s spy adventure Mayday, set 40 years into the Cold War in 1987, premieres September 4th on Apple TV. Filmed in… Read More »Ryan Reynolds & Kenneth Branagh’s 1980s Spy Adventure MAYDAY Filmed in Montreal & Budapest
Father-and-son Kurt and Wyatt Russell return as older-and-younger versions of Lee Shaw. Apple TV’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters moved production from Vancouver and Hawaii to… Read More »MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS Season 2 Moved Production From Vancouver to Australia – Trailer
Joining lead Kaitlyn Dever as Washington Liberation Front (WLF) leader Abby in season 3 of HBO’s The Last of Us are Jorge Lendeborg Jr. as… Read More »Jorge Lendeborg Jr. & Cleo DuVall Join Season 3 of THE LAST OF US Filming in BC
Updated: Crave’s new mystery thriller Yaga series is shooting in Victoria this Winter. The myth of the witch Baba Yaga is reinvigorated when Napp (Noah Reid).… Read More »Crave’s Mystery Thriller YAGA Series Shooting in Victoria This Winter
Netflix movie Time Out, starring Adam Sandler as a laid-off family man faking his professional life, is filming in Vancouver this Spring. Vincent (Adam Sandler)… Read More »Netflix Movie TIME OUT Starring Adam Sandler Filming in Vancouver This Spring
The Rookie North pilot with Jay Ellis, a potential Washington state spinoff of The Rookie, is shooting in Vancouver this Winter. The Rookie: North follows Alex… Read More »THE ROOKIE Spinoff THE ROOKIE NORTH With Jay Ellis Filming Pilot in Vancouver
Love Actually meets Groundhog Day Netflix’s next big-budget holiday rom-com In a Holidaze, starring Maddie Ziegler,, Rob Lowe, Graham Phillips and Elias Kacavas, is in… Read More »Netflix RomCom IN A HOLIDAZE Now Filming in Whistler & Vancouver