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.
Tomorrowland wrapped filming on Wednesday, February 5th. The mega-movie began its almost six-month shoot last August on the Main Mall at the University of British Columbia… Read More »WRAP: TOMORROWLAND Wraps With 1964 New York World’s Fair Sequence at Disneyland
Took this photo of the just-lit Olympic Cauldron at the Vancouver Convention Centre and it went around the world in minutes. The Vancouver 2010 Winter… Read More »GENESIS: Four Years Since the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Cauldron Lit
[sz-youtube url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deXXi21tSAk” /] Showcase announced today that season three of Vancouver-cop-from-the-future series Continuum will premiere on Sunday, March 16th, in Canada. And the press release provided a… Read More »SHOOT: CONTINUUM S3’s Rachel Nichols & Victor Webster at Marine Building Downtown Turned Bregenzer Bank
Victoria had no trouble passing for northern California’s Gracepoint in Monday afternoon’s sunshine. The cameras won’t show the extreme cold at the turret at Clover Point… Read More »SHOOT: GRACEPOINT Films Murdered Solano Boy’s Sister & Boyfriend at Clover Point in Victoria – Updated
Welcome to Gracepoint, America’s Last Hometown. Main Street Since 1856. Broadchurch-inspired series Gracepoint stars David Tennant of timey-wimey Doctor Who fame, reprising his role as the lead… Read More »SETS: GRACEPOINT Police Station in Sidney & GRACEPOINT Journal in Oak Bay, Victoria
Almost Human’s “white tulip” tribute to Fringe in last night’s episode Unbound left me verklempt. Almost Human crew set up and filmed a young woman buying white… Read More »TRIBUTE: FRINGE’s White Tulips on ALMOST HUMAN
Saturday, February 1st – Season One of Bates Motel, starring uncomfortably-close-mother-and-son Norma (Vera Farmiga) & Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore), starts streaming on Netflix in the… Read More »WEEK: January 27 – February 2, 2014
The life of a background actor in Vancouver is busy but often anonymous. Not so for six lucky local extras on Disney’s Tomorrowland, handpicked by director… Read More »UPGRADED: Six Vancouver Extras To Film with Hugh Laurie at TOMORROWLAND’s Disneyland Shoot
[New Sheriff] Ethan Burke (Matt Dillon) is still bloodied five months after M. Night Shyamalan’s Wayward Pines filmed its pilot on the Pioneer Avenue set in… Read More »SHOOT: WAYWARD PINES’ Matt Dillon Runs & Tackles Guy in Agassiz