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.
Godzilla’s sea monster terrorizes San Francisco played by Steveston, New Westminster, downtown Vancouver and Vancouver Island. Related: US Military vs Godzilla in Vancouver area and… Read More »POSTER: GODZILLA in Theatres on May 16th
Update: Agent X shot its pilot in Vancouver and then production retooled and moved to Los Angeles. Agent X premiere November 8, 2015 on TNT.… Read More »SHOOT: AGENT X’s Sharon Stone Sworn in as U.S. Vice-President at Vancouver Art Gallery
How many suitors does Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison) need? That was my first thought when Once Upon a Time filmed her hugging a strange man (Christopher Gorham) outside… Read More »PROMOS: Is ONCE UPON A TIME’s Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison) Speed Dating?
So Night at the Museum’s Cecil (Dick Van Dyke) has retired to Yaletown House in Vancouver. The third installment in the billion-dollar franchise filmed scenes today… Read More »SHOOT: Ben Stiller’s NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB Starts Filming Here With 80-Something Legend Dick Van Dyke
The Tomorrow People’s John (Luke Mitchell) and Jedikiah (Mark Pellegrino) have a complicated relationship, to say the least. Jedikiah demonstrated a fatherly love for the young special-powered John but… Read More »SHOOT: THE TOMORROW PEOPLE’s Luke Mitchell & Mark Pellegrino Play Chess in Yaletown
Sunday, February 16th – Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy author E. L. James’s book-signing at Chapters-Indigo in downtown Vancouver. Friday, February 14th – Once Upon… Read More »WEEK: February 10-16, 2014
[sz-youtube url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBhSD1KBYm4″ /] More than a week later, Caity Lotz is still the biggest google search that leads to yvrshoots.com. Was it her on-screen liplock with… Read More »BY REQUEST: Black Canary (Caity Lotz)’s Salmon Ladder Sequence on ARROW
Students at the University of British Columbia are doing double takes on shortcuts to classes. Tucked behind the CHEM building is a Goods Reception Area to London’s British… Read More »SET: NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB Builds Goods Reception Area for London’s British Museum at UBC
