WEEK: August 12-18, 2013
Sunday, August 18th – Cedar Cove 1×06 For the Sake of the Children airs on the W Network: Olivia (Andie MacDowell) hears both sides of a… Read More »WEEK: August 12-18, 2013
Sunday, August 18th – Cedar Cove 1×06 For the Sake of the Children airs on the W Network: Olivia (Andie MacDowell) hears both sides of a… Read More »WEEK: August 12-18, 2013
Supernatural’s Misha Collins brought his annual G.I.S.H.W.H.E.S. (Greatest International Scavenger Hunt The World Has Ever Seen) to Burnaby’s Central Park on Thursday: Sprung forth whole… Read More »EVENT: Greatest International Scavenger Hunt The World Has Ever Seen Hosted By Misha Collins in Burnaby’s Central Park
Photos by Larry/@BastardSonVan. Whose thatched cottage is this with the signature Wonderland mushrooms at the gate? Once Upon a Time in Wonderland filmed a very… Read More »YOUR SHOOT: Hatter’s House Set For ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND Premiere
Sunday, July 28th – Vancouver-cop-from-the-future-series Continuum 2×12 Second Last airs on Showcase. In the penultimate episode of season 2 directed by Amanda Tapping, Kiera (Rachel Nichols)… Read More »WEEK: July 22-28, 2013
Update: Godzilla director Gareth Edwards pre-taped a message for San Diego Comic-Con fans to preview the GodzillaEncounter.com viral campaign about “something very big heading to San Diego.” He must have done this standup in Vancouver late last month on the Main Street set in south Burnaby, dressed as San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Related: Godzilla turns Watchmen’s Main Street Set into San Francisco’s Chinatown.
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Read More »COMIC-CON PREP: GODZILLA Sets Up Its Viral Marketing Campaign
Does the 3D Godzilla movie reboot reflect the real world event of Japan’s 2011 earthquake/tsunami and the resulting nuclear crisis at some of the country’s older nuclear power plants? Is that the “contemporary issue” screenwriter Frank Darabont spoke of? It would seem so. “6.3 Earthquake Rocks Eastern Japan” said the news crawl on set screens at the Vancouver Convention Centre dressed as the Honolulu airport at the start of filming here in mid-March.
Janjira appears to be the fictional nuclear power plant in this modern-day re-imagining of the radioactive Japanese sea monster as a “terrifying force of nature”.
Godzilla used an abandoned Coquitlam paper recycling plant on the Fraser River to film a couple of weeks of scenes of the Janjira nuclear power station at risk of meltdown with radioactive leaks. Is this what wakes Godzilla (plural) from their slumber?
Related: Coquitlam paper recycling plant as Japanese nuclear power plant
Since Coquitlam, the Janjira plant has been played by an industrial building on Annacis Island and its offices by Nokia in Burnaby’s Glenlyon Business Park. Godzilla also used Steveston’s Japanese Cultural Centre to double as the Janjira International School Read More »SHOOT: GODZILLA’s Japanese Nuclear Power Plant & its Quarantine Zone (in New Westminster)
Update: Godzilla filmed four or five massive SPFX explosions on this set overnight Saturday (June 22-23). See photo of one blast.
Godzilla lit up the south Burnaby night sky at Marine Way and Byrne Road on Tuesday to shoot scenes on the Main Street set (built for the 2009 movie Watchmen) dressed as San Francisco’s Chinatown — a ravaged Chinatown in the wake of a Japanese sea monster. Not much can be seen from outside the private back lot except for glimpses of Chinatown’s iconic hanging red-and-gold lanterns, 1920s-era Dragon street lamps and a destroyed pagoda-topped building, so you’ll have to imagine it dark and filled with smoke for scenes of the movie’s hero Lieutenant Ford (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and soldiers running through it.
Related: Godzilla turns New Westminster into Streets of San Francisco – Chinatown
Read More »SET: GODZILLA Turns Watchmen’s Main Street Set in Burnaby into San Francisco’s Chinatown
Want to see a sneak peek of sitcom Package Deal’s pilot? It’s on City tonight after America’s Got Talent at 9 p.m. ET/PT. And the… Read More »SNEAK PEEK: Pilot of Sitcom PACKAGE DEAL on City Tonight