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.
The Dragons’ Den auditions tour comes to Vancouver today — Valentine’s Day, February 14th — with local entrepreneurs vying for a chance to pitch their… Read More »AUDITIONS: DRAGONS’ DEN Auditions in B.C. For Upcoming Season Without David Chilton
Will update continuously as new information becomes available. ABC From Sheldon Klein comes drama The Advocate about a powerful woman (Kim Raver/24) who is medically misdiagnosed… Read More »TV PILOTS: THE ADVOCATE with Kim Raver; MIX; ORIGINAL SIN with Joan Allen; HEART MATTERS with Melissa George; STRANGE CALLS with Danny Pudi; UNVEILED with Liam McIntyre; DARKSIDE; DEAD PEOPLE with Andrew West & BREED With Justin Chatwin
Update: This set was used for exteriors of a cabin where Charlie (Felicia Day) holed up with Sam and Dean Winchester (Jared Padalecki and Jensen… Read More »SET: SUPERNATURAL Builds Log Cabin Set in Burnaby’s Fraser Foreshore Park For 10×19 Book of the Damned
Stabbing Oliver Queen with a sword and pushing him over a cliff will be the least crazy thing Arrow does in season three, according to… Read More »SHOOT: ARROW’s Captain Lance (Paul Blackthorne) & Arrow-Roy (Colton Haynes) in Downtown Vancouver
From the folks who brought you WolfCop: CineCoup’s 2nd film accelerator program launches in downtown Vancouver tonight with $1 million in production financing available for… Read More »FILM ACCELERATOR: From the Folks Who Brought You WOLFCOP, CineCoup’s 2nd $1-Million Film Accelerator Launches Tonight
Three weeks. That’s how long we have to wait for the Spring premiere of Once Upon a Time on Sunday, March 1st. And several weeks… Read More »SHOOT: ONCE UPON A TIME’s Robin Hood Gallops on a Horse Through Downtown Vancouver as New York City
In honor of Birdman, we’re going to do the whole #Oscars broadcast in one continuous shot. — Neil Patrick Harris (@ActuallyNPH) February 8, 2015 Last… Read More »VFX: Rodeo FX at SPARK 2015 on Invisible VFX Behind BIRDMAN’s One Continuous Shot
Who knew a portal to Heaven existed in Ladner’s Harbour Park? Perhaps because it’s only there when Supernatural needs to film scenes of a sigil… Read More »SHOOT: Misha Collins Films at SUPERNATURAL’s Portal to Heaven in Ladner’s Harbour Park
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYaCdQHbL3s” /] Despite a two-year delay and a big write down, $100-million Seventh Son is not wholly dependent on its North American box office… Read More »RELEASE: SEVENTH SON With Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore & Ben Barnes Opens in North America Today