TRON: ARES Shuts Down in Vancouver Before it Starts – Laying Off 150
Disney’s big-budget movie Tron: Ares with Jared Leto had expected to start filming in metro Vancouver on Monday but production is shut down, with over 150 people laid off.
Susan Gittins
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.
Hollywood Studios/Streamers Offered Striking Writers Counter-Proposal
The 8 studios/streamers, which make up the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), brought a new counter-proposal to the Writers Guild of America last Friday, after more than 100 days of strike action.
RIVERDALE Final Wardrobe Sale This Week at its Langley Studios
Looking for some classic 1950s-style clothing inspired by the OG Archie Comics? Langley Studios is having a Riverdale Final Wardrobe Sale
BC-Filmed Horror Comedy TOTALLY KILLER With Kiernan Shipka Drops October 6th on Prime
BC-filmed time-travelling horror comedy Totally Killer, with Kiernan Shipka and Olivia Holt, streams October 6th on Amazon’s Prime Video.
ARROW Reunion Picket in LA + Stephen Amell Picket in NYC
Arrow writers and cast reunited on the picket line at Warner Bros Studios, located in Burbank. Stephen Amell showed support from NYC.
A24’s THE HERETIC With Hugh Grant Filming in Vancouver This Fall
A24’s The Heretic with Hugh Grant is filming in Vancouver this Fall.
CBC Series ALLEGIANCE About Sikh Rookie Cop Filming in Vancouver This Fall
New CBC series Allegiance, about a Sikh rookie cop, is filming in Vancouver and Surrey this Fall.
BC-Filmed THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER Drops October 12th on Netflix
Mike Flanagan’s latest BC-filmed horror series The Fall of the House of Usher streams October 12th on Netflix.
Return of the Gorn in STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS Season 2 Finale
The Gorn attack a colony outside of Federation jurisdiction in the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 finale Hegemony. Anson Mount’s Captain Christopher Pike of the USS Enterprise is warned not to aggravate the situation.