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.
Saturday Night Live alum Kate McKinnon will star in epic sci-fi movie In the Blink of An Eye, filming in Vancouver this Spring and directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton.
CBS pilot Matlock with Kathy Bates starts filming in Toronto as New York City, in a new take on the classic legal series starring Andy Griffith.
Bob Odenkirk is a cranky academic whose life falls apart in a hilarious way in AMC’s Lucky Hank series, which premieres tonight and was filmed mainly at the University of British Columbia as “mediocre” Railton College.
TikTok star Addison Rae shared two videos from the set of Eli Roth’s cult Thanksgiving slasher movie filming at a local high school in Hamilton, Ontario last week.
Lance Reddick died much, much too soon on Friday at age 60. His wife Stephanie Reddick thanked all the fans, colleagues and friends for the outpouring of love for the actor.
Jane Widdop aka Laura Lee on Yellowjackets is starring in It’s a Wonderful Knife which starts filming next week in metro Vancouver.
Raunchy road trip comedy Joy Ride, starring Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu and Sabrina Wu, gets a Red Band trailer, a world premiere tonight at the SXSW Festival and a July 7th release date.
Zombie sequel Festival of the Living Dead — filming in Vancouver this Spring — takes place 55 years after the events of George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead.
Mr. Monk’s Last Case, a Peacock follow-up movie to the hit USA mystery series starring Tony Shalhoub, is expected to film in Toronto this May.