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.
Sandra Oh is back in Canada shooting a sci-fi feature in Powell River, B.C. Written and directed by fellow Canadian Ann Marie Fleming, Can I Get a Witness is about humanity’s collective decision to die at age 50 so that future generations can survive on the planet.
Family Law season 2, starring Jewel Staite and Victor Garber, premieres on The CW. Season One of the drama about flawed half-siblings who reluctantly work together at their father’s Vancouver law firm, aired on The CW last Fall.
Macabre series The Horror of Dolores Roach, starring Justina Machado as Dolores “Magic Hands” Roach, is streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
Maika Monroe and Oscar-winning actor Troy Kotsur (CODA) are filming crime thriller In Cold Light in Alberta and Quebec this summer, helmed by French Canadian director Maxime Giroux.
Raunchy BC-fimed Asian road trip comedy Joy Ride, starring Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu and Sabrina Wu, is in theatres this Friday, July 7th.
BC-filmed V.C. Andrews’ Dawn movie series, starring Stargirl’s Brec Bassinger and Donna Mills, premieres July 8th on Lifetime.
Welcome to the Grid: Jared Leto, Evan Peters, Greta Lee and Jodie Turner-Smith. Tron: Ares is filming in Vancouver this summer and Fall.
In this week’s time-twisting episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, chief of security La’an Noonien-Singh travels back in time to 21st-Century Earth to prevent an attack which will alter humanity’s future history.
In a bait-and-switch Bizarro becomes Doomsday for an epic Superman & Lois season 3 finale battle — which starts on the Kent Farm and ends up on the Moon.