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.
Updated: Netflix’s big-budget American adaption of the popular Japanese manga Death Note is filming in metro Vancouver this summer. Anime series Death Note, written by… Read More »BIG BUDGET: American Adaption of Japanese Manga DEATH NOTE With Nat Wolff to Film in Vancouver This Summer
Revised and Updated: Fifty Shades lit up Vancouver’s Coal Harbour last night to film on a yacht that production brought in on Monday night. Can… Read More »SHOOT: FIFTY SHADES Films Christian Grey & Ana Steele on a Yacht — the Grace? — in Vancouver’s Coal Harbour
It’s not morphin time — yet. Rita Repulsa sucked the life out of the Power Rangers in Steveston as Angel Grove today but they didn’t… Read More »SHOOT: POWER RANGERS Movie Films Rita Repulsa (Elizabeth Banks) & the Rangers in Steveston as Angel Grove
Are you a fan of the Lemony Snicket books? Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events — with Neil Patrick Harris as the nefarious Count Olaf… Read More »SHOOT: Netflix’s A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS With Neil Patrick Harris at SFU Segal Graduate School of Business in Vancouver
Who is Krispy Kreme? — Rita Repulsa. Evil alien Rita Repulsa doesn’t realize that Krispy Kreme is the name of the dougnut shop she’s attacking,… Read More »SHOOT: Who is Krispy Kreme? POWER RANGER Movie’s Rita Repulsa (Elizabeth Banks) Attacks Doughnut Shop in Steveston
Rita Repulsa is terrorizing Angel Grove, California, aka Steveston today. Where are the Power Rangers to defend the town? Elizabeth Banks plays the evil alien.… Read More »SHOOT: Rita Repulsa (Elizabeth Banks) of the POWER RANGERS Movie Terrorizes Townsfolk in Steveston as Angel Grove
You wanted hearts and flowers,” he murmurs. I blink at him, not quite believing what I’m seeing. “You have my heart.” And he waves toward… Read More »SHOOT: FIFTY SHADES DARKER Films Christian Grey’s Proposal to Anastasia Steele at Vancouver’s Rio Vista Mansion Pool House
Wayward Pines Academy principal Megan Fisher and brainwasher of the First Generation scares me. International sci-fi hit Wayward Pines shot a season two flashback of… Read More »SHOOT: WAYWARD PINES Season 2 Films Megan Fisher (Hope Davis) in Vancouver’s Andy Livingstone Park
E! image. From the network that brings you The Royals, comes a Hollywood Cinderella story about a young actress who gets the part in a… Read More »NEW SERIES: E!’s THE ARRANGEMENT With Josh Henderson, Christine Evangelista & Michael Vartan To Film in Vancouver This Summer