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.
Meet 19-year-old Vancouver actor Dakota Daulby who’s having a very good year. Tonight he makes his debut in the Canadian premiere of the fourth season of alien invasion… Read More »INTERVIEW: Dakota Daulby on FALLING SKIES, BLACK FLY & SITTING ON THE EDGE OF MARLENE
Photo Credit: Carole Segal for Netflix. The Killing’s final season murder-mystery takes place in St. George’s boys military academy on the outskirts of Seattle where… Read More »PROMO: Joan Allen Inspects Cadets at University of British Columbia for THE KILLING’s Final Season
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE2u_N8g6cs#t=44″ /] Toronto-based visual effects company Intelligent Creatures shared a making-of video of the clonetastic four-clone dance in the Orphan Black season two finale. In Felix’s loft, dying seestra… Read More »VFX: ORPHAN BLACK’s Four-Clone Dance in Season 2 Finale
Big American network TV series return to Vancouver this summer, with most scheduled to start filming new seasons during the second week of July. Early scripts… Read More »START DATES: Filming of SUPERNATURAL, ONCE UPON A TIME, ARROW, THE 100 & THE FLASH in Vancouver
UPDATE: Behind The Hit: The Unauthorized, Untold Story of Saved By the Bell premieres Labour Day Monday, September 1st, on Lifetime in the U.S. and… Read More »SHOOT: BEHIND THE HIT – THE UNAUTHORIZED, UNTOLD STORY OF SAVED BY THE BELL Films at The Hollywood Theatre in Kitsilano
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCd-9TQKDjw” /] Sometimes to find yourself you need to get a little lost. Here’s a scene from Hector And The Search for Happiness with… Read More »TRAILER: HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS with Simon Pegg
Sunday, June 22nd – Continuum season 3 finale airs on Showcase in Canada. Has Kiera (Rachel Nichols) joined forces with Liber8 in order to stop Alec… Read More »WEEK: June 16-22, 2014
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbRbU5sMlH0″ /] The Intruders trailer features James Frain giving a young intruder a number nine, which was the production sign for the series that wrapped… Read More »TRAILER: INTRUDERS Trailer Features John Simm, Mira Sorvino & James Frain
[sz-youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpSaTrW4leg” /] Apes led by Caesar and Humans led by Malcolm cross paths for the first time since a Simian plague wiped out most… Read More »TRAILER: DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Final Trailer with Andy Serkis & Jason Clarke