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: Ben Affleck back in & Mark Wahlberg out. And Triple Frontier is back to splitting production between Hawaii and Colombia. No Vancouver shoot. Big-budget… Read More »BIG MOVIE: TRIPLE FRONTIER With Ben Affleck, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund Expected to Film in Hawaii/Vancouver This Spring?
Kevin Smith is a vegetarian now! Hope The Flash and Supergirl film crews like kale as much as Buddy burgers. Home again, home again, jiggety-jig!… Read More »DC TV: New Vegetarian Kevin Smith Tweets Photo from Home Where He’s Recovering from Heart Attack
Once Upon a Time creators teased a return to Storybrooke in the Henry Mills episode filming now in metro Vancouver. It’s a flashback to young… Read More »FINAL SEASON: If You Want to Revisit Storybrooke This Might Be the ONCE UPON A TIME Episode to Find
Updated: ABC David Giuntoli, Grimm image. A Millon Little Things Writer/Producer: DJ Nash. Director: James Griffith. Did you ever see The Big Chill? ABC pilot… Read More »TV PILOTS: CHARMED Reboot, A MILLION LITTLE THINGS Among 6 Network Pilots Filming in Vancouver This March
Updated: Supernatural’s Sam vs Rowena in the Pink Alley. Supernatural filmed in the “Pink Alley” last night. This is a downtown Vancouver alley off Granville… Read More »SEASON 13: SUPERNATURAL’s Sam & Rowena (Jared Padalecki & Ruth Connell) in Vancouver’s Pink Alley
Sam & Dean Winchester (Jared Padalecki & Jensen Ackles) with Lucca Camilleri (Massi Furlan) in the back. Sam & Dean Winchester in a homage to… Read More »SEASON 13: Amanda Tapping-Directed SUPERNATURAL With Sam & Dean in a Homage to 1940s Noir Films To Air March 8th
Wish Hook and Alice are family. But what is Gothel? Wish Hook, Alice & Gothel in their Seattle identities. Once Upon a Time filmed in… Read More »FINAL SEASON: ONCE UPON A TIME’s Wish Hook & Alice (Colin O’Donoghue & Rose Reynolds) in Their Cursed Identities
Honourary Vancouverite Kevin Smith survived “a massive heart attack” tonight. And in true Kevin Smith style shared the shocking news from his hospital bed. After… Read More »DC TV: Beloved THE FLASH/SUPERGIRL Director Kevin Smith Survived A Massive Heart Attack Tonight
Robert Hack illustration.The Riverdale family expands with a new series this year. Look for a dark take on teenage witch Sabrina to start filming in… Read More »NEW SERIES: Netflix’s SABRINA Casts the Teen Witch’s Family & Foes – Aunt Zelda, Aunt Hilda & Madam Satan.