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.
Update: Fear the Walking Dead set a record as the highest-rated first season in American cable history, averaging 11.2 million viewers for its six episodes… Read More »TONIGHT: Filmed-in-Vancouver Zombie Herd on FEAR THE WALKING DEAD Season Finale
Resurrection is a Bitch Image: Film Divider. MIPCOM hasn’t started yet but there’s already news. A female Van Helsing series billboard is mounted outside the… Read More »MIPCOM: Resurrection is a Bitch. New Female VAN HELSING Series to Film in Vancouver?
BBC America image: Tatiana Maslany & Kristian Bruun. Helen Shaver could run #CloneClub for Orphan Black. Her favourite television episode of the many she’s directed in… Read More »VIFF INDUSTRY: Helen Shaver’s Favourite TV Episode She’s Ever Directed Is ORPHAN BLACK With Twerking
How did writer/director Patricia Rozema adapt the Jean Hegland novel Into the Forest about two sisters in a post-apocalyptic world into such a compelling feature… Read More »VIFF INDUSTRY: INTO THE FOREST Writer/Director Patricia Rozema Talks About the Art of The Arc This Afternoon
Shall We Watch a Game? 1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. today at VanCity Theatre. Writer/Producer Tim Carter and Director Zach Lipovsky turned a hit video game into… Read More »VIFF INDUSTRY: How DEAD RISING: WATCHTOWER’s Tim Carter & Zach Lipovsky Turned Video Game into Indiana Jones With Zombies
Small town. Big crime. Dead cold. Warren Littlefield tried to develop the 1996 Coen Brothers classic film Fargo into a TV series for more than… Read More »VIFF INDUSTRY: Executive Producer Warren Littlefield & Fargo Snowglobe Waited 15+ Years for FARGO TV Series
Emma Swan. Emma Swan. Emma Swan. A wired Colin O’Donoghue as Hook called her name for two hours tonight. In take after take after take.… Read More »SHOOT: ONCE UPON A TIME’s Hook (Colin O’Donoghue) on Storybrooke Library Roof in Steveston
Granny’s Diner starred in the opening credits of Once Upon a Time’s season five premiere. After Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison) absorbed the Darkness in the… Read More »SET: ONCE UPON A TIME’s Granny’s Diner in Camelot Forest Set in Burnaby’s Central Park
Update: Here’s the complete banner with the casts of Supernatural, Lucifer and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow at Canadian Motion Pictures Park. Welcoming some new faces… Read More »STUDIO: SUPERNATURAL Pranks Newcomers LUCIFER & DC’s LEGENDS OF TOMORROW at Burnaby’s Canadian Motion Picture Park