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.
The X-Files shared the opening of the season finale on Twitter during halftime at the Super Bowl today. And it’s a mind-bender. Scully as an… Read More »TEASER: THE X-FILES Season Finale Opening Scene With Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) And An Alien Twist
Update: Ex Machina won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects. EX MACHINA Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett Update: Ex Machina director… Read More »VFX: Making of EX MACHINA Android Ava with Oscar VFX Nominee Paul Norris at SPARK FX
On set with the cast of @OnceABC #OnceUponATime — Had a great time directing the show. pic.twitter.com/wUSeYseiO8 — Eriq La Salle (@EriqLaSalle23) February 5, 2016… Read More »SHOOT: ONCE UPON A TIME Films Ruby Slippers in Vancouver’s Mountain View Cemetery with Meghan Ory
Update: Wayward Pines is building a new town set on the CMPP Studios back lot in south Burnaby. Someone from Group C is going to… Read More »CASTING: Jason Patric Cast as New Lead in WAYWARD PINES Season 2 Filming in Vancouver
Team Bear from The Revenant won’t be at tomorrow’s SPARK FX conference in Vancouver but Team Ava from Ex Machina will be represented, and there… Read More »VFX: STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS, EX-MACHINA & MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Panels at SPARK FX 2016 in Vancouver
Correction: Speculated that The BFG might be the Disney production filming additional photography here in March but it’s not them. Pirates of the Caribbean 5… Read More »TEASER: Steven Spielberg’s THE BFG With Mark Rylance & Ruby Burnhill
Updated with revised dates: Are you ready for more Fifty Shades in Vancouver? Look for Seattle-billionaire-with-singular-tastes Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) and the-girl-who-said-No Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson)… Read More »POLLING: FIFTY SHADES DARKER Expected to Film Ana Steele (Dakota Johnson) & Others in Gastown From Mid-February For 3 Weeks
Fargo show runner Noah Hawley knows how to cast. Dan Stevens will play Charles Xavier’s son David Haller and the multiple-personality mutant Legion — whose… Read More »CASTING: Noah Hawley’s LEGION Casts Dan Stevens as David Haller/Mutant Legion Filming in Vancouver
1st Due Media video. [sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7u8ZwRbWDY” /] It looks like War for the Planet of the Apes set off its huge SPFX explosion of a… Read More »SHOOT: WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES Big SPFX Explosions of A Train Oil Tanker at South Richmond Set