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: Fairmont Vancouver Hotel offers a Fifty Shades package to stay in the Lieutenant Governor’s Suite where the movie filmed. Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) and… Read More »SHOOT: FIFTY SHADES OF GREY Films in The Heathman, aka the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver
It’s Not Easy Being Green: What is the Wicked Witch (Rebecca Mader without her green face paint) doing in Storybrooke? And believe it or not, this… Read More »SHOOT: The Wicked Witch (Rebecca Mader) in ONCE UPON A TIME’s Storybrooke Filmed in Steveston
Gleek charming Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) was such a smash hit on his two-episode arc on Arrow that The CW scrapped plans to film a… Read More »START DATE: CW Pilot THE FLASH Starring Grant Gustin Expected to Start Filming March 2nd – Updated
Iconic Basic Instinct and Casino star Sharon Stone will be sashaying the streets of Vancouver next month as the first female vice-president of the United States… Read More »START DATE: TNT Pilot AGENT X Starring Sharon Stone Expected to Start Filming February 20th – Updated
#WhatUpLinden? We’ll get some clues to what happens to Seattle police detective Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) and her partner Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman) when the final adventures… Read More »START DATE: THE KILLING’s Final Season Expected to Start Filming February 24th
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uDhH6H-VEw” /] Reshoots? More like principal photography at the Vancouver Convention Centre. Joel Kinnaman is the critically-wounded cop Alex Murphy who returns to the… Read More »MOVIE CLIP: ROBOCOP With Joel Kinnaman at the Vancouver Convention Centre
What are Once Upon a Time’s Henry (Jared Gilmore) and Hook (Colin O’Donoghue) doing together on a beach with a campfire? Season three’s back half of… Read More »SHOOT: ONCE UPON A TIME Films Jared Gilmore & Colin O’Donoghue at Steveston’s Garry Point Park
Photos by @yvrsiren. Will we explore more of Diggle (David Ramsey)’s backstory in an upcoming episode of Arrow? Casting put out a call a few… Read More »YOUR SHOOT: ARROW’s David Ramsey at Queen Elizabeth Theatre for 2×16 Suicide Squad
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen Storybrooke since Peter Pan’s curse seemingly blinked it out of existence. Before Christmas, Once Upon a Time filmed… Read More »SHOOT: ONCE UPON A TIME Back in Steveston’s Storybrooke