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.
We can never be sure about the true nature of people sitting across from us or lying next to us in bed. — Chris Haddock. Still… Read More »UPFRONTS: Chris Haddock’s Vancouver Spy Serial THE ROMEO SECTION to Premiere October 14th on CBC
UP Network’s first scripted series Ties That Bind is about a married suburban Seattle cop (Kelli Williams) juggling the demands of the job and four… Read More »NEW SERIES: UP Network’s Police Procedural & Family Drama TIES THAT BIND With Kelli Williams & Luke Perry
Apart from the occasional putrid corpse has there ever been a TV series that showcased Vancouver’s beauty more than Motive? Known for its bold cinematic… Read More »LOCATION: Vancouver as Vancouver on MOTIVE Season 3
This year’s Leo Awards — honouring the best of BC-made film and television — boasts six nominees in the Best Dramatic Series category: CTV’s Vancouver… Read More »LEO AWARDS: Vancouver Whydunit MOTIVE & American Scarlet Speedster THE FLASH Lead Dramatic Series Nominations
Amazon Prime’s The Man in the High Castle is setting up to film on the Main Mall at the University of British Columbia [Monday through… Read More »SET: THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE Shows What North America Would Be Like if Japan & Germany Won WWII
#Deadpool has been a privilege to make. And we got to make this film because of you. Gonna eat a samich now. #wrapped pic.twitter.com/AMW68HD2BI —… Read More »WRAP: DEADPOOL Wraps After Filming at PNE in Vancouver Including Leeside Tunnel Skatepark
Here’s the CTV video of this moment. RT if you love @SeanASweeney’s loving support! You can do this @brentasweeney! #AmazingRaceCanada https://t.co/U9utBjOygo — Amazing Race Canada… Read More »SHOOT: CTV’s THE AMAZING RACE CANADA Films Season 3 Challenge Atop Vancouver’s BC Place
You’d think after Beverly’s public execution in the town square, secret service agent Ethan Burke (Matt Dillon) would stop snooping around Wayward Pines and follow the… Read More »TEASER: WAYWARD PINES with Matt Dillon, Terrence Howard and Melissa Leo This Thursday
Update: Ridley Scott’s Prometheus 2 has put Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 on hold — perhaps permanently. alien is kinda holding/ pending prometheus 2. So I… Read More »UPCOMING: Will Neill Blomkamp’s ALIEN 5 with Sigourney Weaver & Michael Biehn Film in Vancouver This Fall?