WEEK: August 19-25, 2013
Sunday, August 25th – Cedar Cove 1×07 Free Spirits airs on the W network. Olivia (Andie MacDowell)’ worries about her daughter Justine who’s gone to… Read More »WEEK: August 19-25, 2013
Sunday, August 25th – Cedar Cove 1×07 Free Spirits airs on the W network. Olivia (Andie MacDowell)’ worries about her daughter Justine who’s gone to… Read More »WEEK: August 19-25, 2013
Published August 22nd, 2013 on Vancouver is Awesome. Who painted those famous 1950s and ’60s portraits of doe-eyed children? Tim Burton’s indie biopic Big Eyes… Read More »BIG READ: Tim Burton’s BIG EYES With Amy Adams & Christoph Waltz Wraps in Vancouver
Sunday, August 4th – The Killing’s 2-hour season three finale From Up Here/The Road to Hamelin airs on AMC. Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman) meets with girlfriend… Read More »WEEK: July 29 – August 4, 2013
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
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
Supernatural looked a lot like a Godzilla shoot yesterday — with soldier backgrounders, army jeeps and the same bus we saw in downtown New Westminster… Read More »SHOOT: Jensen Ackles & Jared Padalecki Film SUPERNATURAL S9 in New Westminster
Published June 27, 2013 on Vancouver is Awesome After a three month-plus shoot here, the 3D Godzilla reboot wraps filming this week in Vancouver and moves on… Read More »BIG READ: U.S. Military Vs GODZILLA Moves On From Vancouver Area & Vancouver Island
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)