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. Alternate history? Keep a lookout for Nazis on the streets of Vancouver late next month when Amazon Prime’s The Man in the High Castle… Read More »NEW SERIES: Amazon Prime’s THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE With Alexa Davalos, Rupert Evans & Rufus Sewell Expected to Start Filming April 21st
Legendary director Steven Spielberg’s next project is a big-screen and big-budget live-action adaption of Roald Dahl’s children’s classic The BFG, with Mark Rylance as the… Read More »BIG BUDGET: Steven Spielberg’s THE BFG with Mark Rylance as Big Friendly Giant Expected to Start Filming March 23rd
Killer monsters thriller Breed took over Jules French Bistro in Gastown tonight to shoot a scene of Tacoma detective Cooper Wells (Justin Chatwin) dining inside… Read More »SHOOT: TNT Pilot BREED Films Justin Chatwin in Gastown Bistro
Still missing Intelligence? Chris Haddock, the creative mind behind Intelligence and DaVinci’s Inquest, returns to the CBC this Fall with a new filmed-in-Vancouver 10-episode spy… Read More »NEW SERIES: Chris Haddock’s THE ROMEO SECTION to Debut on CBC in The Fall
Has Rumplestiltskin locked out Belle from Mr. Gold Pawnbroker & Antiquities Dealer? It would seem so in the last shoot of the day as the… Read More »SHOOT: ONCE UPON A TIME’s Emilie De Ravin Films Outside Mr. Gold’s in Steveston
What role does Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison)’s old friend Lily (Agnes Bruckner) play in Once Upon a Time? This is something that we will find… Read More »SHOOT: ONCE UPON A TIME’s Jennifer Morrison, Agnes Bruckner, Kristin Bauer Van Straten, Jared Gilmore, Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh Dallas, Lana Parrilla, Colin O’Donoghue, Sean Maguire, Rebecca Mader in Steveston
Updated: Once Upon a Time is filming Storybrooke scenes in sunny Steveston today with Emma (Jennifer Morrison)’ driving her yellow VW bug and parking it… Read More »SHOOT: ONCE UPON A TIME’s Captain Swan (Emma & Hook) Charmings (Charming & Snow), Outlaw Queen (Regina & Robin Hood), Henry, Zelena, Maleficent & Lily in in Steveston
Century House in downtown Vancouver makes a good Seattle police station for TV movie Further Adventures in Babysitting, inspired by the 1980s film. Rival babysitters… Read More »SHOOT: FURTHER ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING With Sabrina Carpenter & Sofia Carson at Century House Downtown
Vancouver’s timey-wimey Continuum, starring Rachel Nichols, Victor Webster and Eric Knudsen, and whydunit crime drama Motive, starring Kristen Lehman and Louis Ferreira, are up for Best Dramatic… Read More »TONIGHT: CONTINUUM, MOTIVE, ARCTIC AIR’s Adam Beach & PACKAGE DEAL’s Julia Voth Are Contenders at CANADIAN SCREEN AWARDS