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.
Based on a 70s show, The Tomorrow People is The X-Men without “silly costumes”, as someone put it, and tells the story of a group… Read More »SHOOT: Robbie Amell & Peyton List Film THE TOMORROW PEOPLE Downtown
When Crime is out of Control. The Only Solution isn’t Human. Who is in Control? Man or Machine? [sz-youtube url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INmtQXUXez8″ /] Joel Kinnaman is the… Read More »TRAILER: Joel Kinnaman in ROBOCOP Remake
Published September 5, 2013 on Vancouver is Awesome. What is Tomorrowland? A boy-genius inventor (Thomas Robinson) finds it at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.… Read More »BIG READ: Hugh Laurie’s TOMORROWLAND Mayor at 1964 New York World’s Fair Sets
Disney’s Tomorrowland had to wait two days for the sun to come back to film the Tomorrowland Mayor (Hugh Laurie), in a grey shiny suit,… Read More »SHOOT: Hugh Laurie As TOMORROWLAND Mayor At “it’s a small world” Set At H.R. MacMillan Space Centre
“This is the most expensive dance party you’re ever going to go to.” – Tomorrowland director. What to do with 300 extras dressed as if… Read More »SHOOT: TOMORROWLAND Dance Party at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre
Sunday, September 1st – Cedar Cove 1×08 Help Wanted airs on the W network. An ex-con Olivia (Andie MacDowell) sentenced comes to Cedar Cove to… Read More »WEEK: August 26 – September 1, 2013
Almost Human is set 35 years from now in 2048 Los Angeles when human police officers are paired with humanoid robot partners. Crew found a… Read More »SHOOT: ALMOST HUMAN’s Karl Urban & Michael Ealy Film With Sexbots at the Waterfall Building for 1×02 Skin
Photo by Julie Holden/@jholden23. It rained so hard at the Tomorrowland shoot today at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre/Museum of Vancouver that plans for an… Read More »YOUR SHOOT: Hugh Laurie Signs His Didn’t It Rain CD at TOMORROWLAND Set at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre
Cousins Stephen and Robbie Amell star in back-to-back Wednesday night shows on The CW this fall. Both action series film in Vancouver and share the same… Read More »PROMO: ARROW & THE TOMORROW PEOPLE on The CW’s Amell Wednesdays