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.
A War is Coming. Between Apes and Humans. Do you have what it takes to stand with Caesar? War For the Planet of the Apes… Read More »CONTEST: Do You Have What it Takes to Stand With Caesar? Win A Role On WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES In Vancouver
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umLn6WqnUR8″ /] A scientific breakthrough will give him a second chance. Now their creation will come to life. Second Chance (formerly Lookinglass/The Frankenstein Code)… Read More »TRAILER: SECOND CHANCE (Formerly Lookinglass/Frankenstein Code) With Rob Kazinsky
The Revenant with even hairier humans? Ice Age survival tale The Solutrean is expected to film in British Columbia this spring. Set 20,000 years ago… Read More »BIG BUDGET: Ice Age Survival Tale THE SOLUTREAN To Shoot in B.C. Next Spring
Hello Dearies. The 15th annual Whistler Film Festival will honour Robert Carlyle — Once Upon a Time’s Rumplestiltskin — with the WFF 2015 Maverick Award… Read More »WFF: Whistler Film Festival Maverick Award to Robert Carlyle & Screening of The Legend of Barney Thomson on December 5th
That’s Greg Kinnear in Gastown today filming his directorial debut Phil: A Tale of Flossing and Plumbing. Kinnear (an Oscar nominee for As Good As… Read More »SHOOT: Phil – A Tale of Flossing and Plumbing With Greg Kinnear & Emily Mortimer Filming in Gastown
Supernatural filmed for the second day at Sheriff Jody Mills’s house played by a south Burnaby ranch house opposite David Gray Park. News that Sheriff… Read More »SHOOT: SUPERNATURAL’s Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki & Kim Rhodes in South Burnaby
Updated with new filming dates. It’s not The Hunger Games. But it’s still big. The third film in the $600-million The Maze Runner trilogy —… Read More »BIG BUDGET: MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE With Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Ki Hong Lee To Film in Vancouver Next Spring
How do you cast a legend like Bruce Lee? Upcoming film Birth of the Dragon is not a traditional biopic. It blends real-life events leading… Read More »BIG BUDGET: Bruce Lee Origin Story BIRTH OF THE DRAGON with Philip Ng Starts Filming Tomorrow in South Vancouver
What’s the latest tourist attraction in Steveston? Once Upon a Time’s fallen clock tower. Crew has set it up twice this November to film Spring… Read More »SET: ONCE UPON A TIME’s Fallen Clock Tower Set a Popular Attraction in Steveston