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.
Lionsgate’s big-budget Power Rangers movie has cast Elizabeth Banks (actress and director of Pitch Perfect 2) as the villainous Rita Repulsa, joining Becky G as the… Read More »CASTING: POWER RANGERS Movie Casts Elizabeth Banks as Villain Rita Repulsa To Film in Vancouver
Update for 2×17 Flash Back: After the shocking revelation that Zoom is Jay Garrick, Barry is more determined than ever to get back to Earth-2… Read More »SHOOT: THE FLASH With Grant Gustin & Andy Mientus Back at Rathaway Industries Near Vancouver’s Olympic Cauldron
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYDvzGuVoIs” /] What if the Devil decided to quit …. and moved to the City of Angels. Tonight Lucifer helps investigate the death of… Read More »TONIGHT: LUCIFER (Tom Ellis) Compels L.A. Paparazzi To Confess Sins Filmed in Downtown Vancouver
The widow of a professor discovers one of his inventions is able to record and play a person’s memory. Mark Palansky’s indie film Rememory is… Read More »SHOOT: Mark Palansky’s REMEMORY Films Peter Dinklage & Henry Ian Cusick at Vancouver’s Sunrise Market
Legends on the Bordertown set. Screen cap. Updated. Ray Palmer (Brandon Routh) as Sheriff John Wayne and anti-hero Jonah Hex (Johnathon Schaech) rode through Ladner’s… Read More »SHOOT: Jonah Hex (Johnathon Schaech) at DC’s LEGENDS OF TOMORROW Western Set in Ladner’s North 40 Park
Perfect casting? Kim Basinger is set to play Seattle billionaire Christian Grey’s “Mrs. Robinson” in Fifty Shades Darker, which starts filming in Vancouver in mid-February.… Read More »CASTING: Kim Basinger Cast as “Mrs. Robinson” on FIFTY SHADES DARKER Filming in Vancouver Mid-February
Updated with Imaginary Mary title. A woman’s imaginary friend helps her transition to life with a man with three kids. That’s the pitch for The… Read More »TV PILOTS: THE GOLDBERGS Creator’s New ABC Comedy IMAGINARY MARY to Film Pilot in Vancouver This Winter
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzz_6dmv03I” /] Critically-acclaimed alternate WWII history series The Man in the High Castle returns to metro Vancouver this Spring and Summer to film its… Read More »SEASON 2: Amazon’s THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE To Film Second Season in Vancouver This Spring/Summer
Harvey Milk biopic director Gus Van Sant and scribe Dustin Lance Black are reuniting to produce an eight-hour ABC miniseries about the gay rights movement… Read More »NEW SERIES: Gay Rights Movement Miniseries WHEN WE RISE From MILK Team To Film in Vancouver This Spring