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.
In Once Upon a Time in Wonderland’s Fall Finale, the Knave of Hearts (Michael Socha) made a wish to end Alice (Sophie Lowe)’s suffering and… Read More »SHOOT: ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND’s Peter Gadiot & Sophie Lowe in Steveston
Sunday, January 19th – Tomorrowland director Brad Bird lands in Paris for quick location scout now that the $200-million-plus Disney movie has wrapped in Vancouver.… Read More »WEEK: January 13-19, 2014
ABC at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour on January 17, 2014. Once Upon a Time in Wonderland had “no business being on Thursday… Read More »TCA NEWS: ABC on ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND & ONCE UPON A TIME
The CW at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour on January 15, 2014. Sci-fi series The 100 is one of two CW shows launching… Read More »TCA NEWS: The CW on THE 100, ARROW, THE FLASH, SUPERNATURAL & THE TOMORROW PEOPLE
Disney’s $200-million-plus Tomorrowland wrapped five months of Vancouver area filming this week. The Brad Bird-directed sci-fi saga tells the story of how the technological promise… Read More »WRAP: TOMORROWLAND Filmed Zero Gravity Scenes at Kent Hangar Field
Outside Ana Steele (Dakota Johnson)’s new apartment in Seattle, her billionaire “boyfriend” Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) surprises her with a new car. He covers her eyes with… Read More »SHOOT: FIFTY SHADES OF GREY Films Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) Gifting Ana (Dakota Johnson) with an Audi in Gastown
Christian Grey’s Audi R8 Spyder had some big Fifty Shades of Grey scenes in Stanley Park this morning, driving through the park and then parking… Read More »SHOOT: FIFTY SHADES OF GREY in Stanley Park with Christian Grey’s Audi R8 Spyder
FOX at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour on January 13, 2014. FOX entertainment chairman Kevin Reilly laid waste to the traditional pilot season… Read More »TCA NEWS: FOX on ALMOST HUMAN, BACKSTROM, WAYWARD PINES & GRACEPOINT
Vancouver’s whydunit crime drama Motive, starring Kristen Lehman and Louis Ferreira, scored a big nomination in the Canadian Screen Awards for Best Drama Series. along with… Read More »Big CANADIAN SCREEN AWARD Nominations for MOTIVE & MR. YOUNG