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.
It was the talk of San Diego Comic-Con: how will former angel Castiel cope with the filth of being human? It won’t be easy but… Read More »SHOOT: SUPERNATURAL’s Castiel (Misha Collins) Does Laundry in New Westminster
Published August 1, 2013 on Vancouver is Awesome. A local biopic of 19th-century-photographer, cinema pioneer and murderer Eadweard Muybridge wraps filming today in Vancouver. Muybridge got… Read More »BIG READ: Vancouver Indie EADWEARD Stars Michael Eklund as Photographer, Cinema Pioneer & Murderer
Already renewed for a third season on Showcase in Canada, Continuum was picked up for a third season on Syfy in the U.S. today. Some… Read More »RENEWED: Syfy Picks Up CONTINUUM For Third Season in the U.S.
How did Tim Burton keep a straight face directing this Big Eyes scene? Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz), owner of the now more-successful Keane Gallery, taunts… Read More »SHOOT: Tim Burton Directs Christoph Waltz & Jason Schwartzman as Rival Gallery Owners for BIG EYES in Gastown
The Only Way to Survive is to Evolve. Is The Tomorrow People a bid by The CW for a sci-fi audience? The network has several… Read More »SHOOT: THE TOMORROW PEOPLE’s Robbie Amell Films on Bute Street Downtown – Revised
Tim Burton stood on the south sidewalk of Powell Street about three to six feet away from me tonight to talk crew through the tracking… Read More »SHOOT: Tim Burton Directs BIG EYES in Gastown Tonight
Almost Human set up in the Olympic Village Square yesterday to film scenes of human and android cops John Kennex (Star Trek’s Karl Urban) and… Read More »SHOOT: ALMOST HUMAN’s Karl Urban & Michael Ealy Film 1×08 in Olympic Village Square
Have you ever seen those 1960s and 70s paintings of children with over-sized eyes? Tim Burton’s biopic Big Eyes tells the story of the San… Read More »SHOOT: Amy Adams Films BIG EYES in Stanley Park
Psych creator/showrunner Steve Franks is in Vancouver to direct what is expected to be the season 8 finale (possibly series finale). From the photo he… Read More »FINALE: PSYCH Showrunner Steve Franks Shares Photo of Cast on Set