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.
Update: Eddie Thawne (Rick Cosnett) is chasing a shape-shifting meta-human. The Flash dotted both sides of the 800 block of West Hastings Street in… Read More »SHOOT: THE FLASH Films Rick Cosnett Walk-And-Talk Outside Terminal City Club in Downtown Vancouver for 1×19
Upcoming medical mystery series Proof filmed Dr. Carolyn Tyler (Jennifer Beals) running again. This time on the east side of Victory Square. Spoiler alert: look… Read More »SHOOT: PROOF’s Jennifer Beals Runs After Someone at Victory Square Downtown
CW pilot Dead People filmed a scene of cabbie (Andrew J. West of The Walking Dead) arguing with ghosts in Gastown today. From Californication creator Tom… Read More »SHOOT: CW Pilot DEAD PEOPLE Films Andrew J. West in Gastown
Update: ABC picked up The Family to series and moved production from Vancouver to New York City. ABC pilot The Family (formerly Original Sin) is… Read More »SHOOT: ABC Pilot THE FAMILY Films Joan Allen, Rupert Graves, Zach Gilford, Alison Pill & Liam James on Vancouver Art Gallery Steps
@yvrshoots Further Adventures in Babysitting filming a kid being chased by someone on a bike down Granville tonight. pic.twitter.com/e1hXzOvlQu — Jen Eggleston (@Jen_Eggleston) March 20,… Read More »SHOOT: FURTHER ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING on Granville Street Downtown
Updated: Big-budget feature Deadpool wants to close the Georgia Viaduct to downtown Vancouver in April to film several stunt sequences. The Merc With a Mouth launchs… Read More »VIADUCT: DEADPOOL With Ryan Reynolds To Close Georgia Viaduct To Film Stunt Sequences
Sometimes the bad guy isn’t the villain. pic.twitter.com/Mk86LQXlPa — Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) March 19, 2015 Simulated gunfire and explosions are ringing out around the Terminal… Read More »SHOOT: DEADPOOL with Ryan Reynolds & Morena Baccarin Underway at Terminal City Ironworks Compound in East Vancouver
Update: ABC picked up The Family to series and moved production from Vancouver to New York City. ABC pilot The Family (formerly Original Sin) filmed… Read More »SHOOT: ABC Pilot THE FAMILY Films Joan Allen & Rupert Graves at Maine Political Meet-and-Greet in New Westminster’s Queens Park.
Kicking Ass And Taking Brains. Former medical resident-turned-zombie Olivia “Liv” Moore (Once Upon a Time’s Rose McIver) struggles to find a way to feed without killing people.… Read More »TONIGHT: THE FLASH Returns & iZOMBIE Premieres — He’s Fast. She’s Dead.