POSTER: THE X-FILES Poster with Vancouver’s Own Cigarette Smoking Man (William B. Davis)
Trust No One: The X-Files’ nefarious Cigarette Smoking Man (CSM or Cancer Man) played by Vancouver’s own William B. Davis.
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.
INDIE: Monster Mashup COLOSSAL With Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Dan Stevens & Austin Stowell Starts Filming in Metro Vancouver
Updated. Godzilla mashed with Being John Malkovich? That’s Colossal with Anne Hathaway as a woman named Gloria whose mental breakdown is strangely connected to a… Read More »INDIE: Monster Mashup COLOSSAL With Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Dan Stevens & Austin Stowell Starts Filming in Metro Vancouver
SHOOT: Matt Reeves’s WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES With Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson & Steve Zahn Films on Long Beach, Vancouver Island
On Long Beach, Vancouver Island. #It has begun. @ApesMovies pic.twitter.com/6AZVzWfJXW — Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) October 17, 2015 It has begun. War between Apes and Humans.… Read More »SHOOT: Matt Reeves’s WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES With Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson & Steve Zahn Films on Long Beach, Vancouver Island
TV PILOT: Tim Kring & Silka Luisa’s Haunted USA Network Pilot THE WILDING With Jordan Spiro & Nadia Alexander Films in Vancouver
Update: USA Network passed on this pilot. A suburban family in North Carolina is haunted by apparitions of the dead. Tim Kring and writer Silka… Read More »TV PILOT: Tim Kring & Silka Luisa’s Haunted USA Network Pilot THE WILDING With Jordan Spiro & Nadia Alexander Films in Vancouver
LOCATION: ARROW’s Stephen Amell Chase Sequence in Vancouver’s Orpheum Theatre
This week’s Arrow episode, The Candidate, showcased Vancouver’s Orpheum Theatre. Stephen Amell’s Oliver Queen stood among a crowd in the lobby and then chased a… Read More »LOCATION: ARROW’s Stephen Amell Chase Sequence in Vancouver’s Orpheum Theatre
SHOOT: SUPERNATURAL’s Jensen Ackles Films in Yaletown’s Emery Barnes Park
Where’s the Darkness? Emery Barnes Park in Vancouver’s Yaletown is filled with blinding light this afternoon. And Supernatural is filming a scene of Dean Winchester… Read More »SHOOT: SUPERNATURAL’s Jensen Ackles Films in Yaletown’s Emery Barnes Park
NEW SERIES: Cameron Crowe’s Showtime Pilot ROADIES With Carla Gugino & Luke Wilson Goes to Series
Showtime greenlit Cameron Crowe’s dramedy pilot Roadies — about the crew members working behind the scenes for a famous rock band — to series after re-casting Carla… Read More »NEW SERIES: Cameron Crowe’s Showtime Pilot ROADIES With Carla Gugino & Luke Wilson Goes to Series
TV PILOT: Jerry Bruckheimer’s TNT Pilot HOME With Bethany Joy Lenz & Andrew Buchan Films in Vancouver This October
Update: TNT passed on the pilot. Suburban thriller TNT pilot Home is about the secrets simmering beneath the surface of a seemingly perfect suburban family.… Read More »TV PILOT: Jerry Bruckheimer’s TNT Pilot HOME With Bethany Joy Lenz & Andrew Buchan Films in Vancouver This October
SHOOT: iZOMBIE’s Rose McIver & Rahul Kohli Film at Vancouver’s Olympic Village
On the morrow after iZombie’s funniest episode yet — Zombie Bro — it was fun to catch up with zombie Liv (Rose McIver) and her… Read More »SHOOT: iZOMBIE’s Rose McIver & Rahul Kohli Film at Vancouver’s Olympic Village