There are 14 movies shooting in and around Vancouver this June including 6 feature films and 8 television movies of the week.
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May was an interesting month for big feature films in Vancouver. Production for the blockbuster installment of the Predator franchise brought an army of soldiers and armoured personnel carrier to New Westminster as well as a crashed-UFO set.
To continue the excitement in New Westminster, Big Star Sandwich lured Hollywood A-lister Liam Neeson who was filming Hard Powder nearby to stop in for a visit. On the other hand Fever Heart starring Alexander Skarsgard and Cara Delevingne was previously scheduled to start filming around town in May but has been updated to begin production in September.
Holy f**k, it worked! #LiamNeeson pic.twitter.com/CStddcrtYj
— Big Star Sandwich Co (@bigstarsandwich) May 3, 2017
Other productions continue into June while the uber popular Vancouver-Ryan-Reynold’s starring Deadpool 2 gears up. Later this summer, the China-set action flick Skyscraper starring the most electrifying man in entertainment, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is scheduled to film in Vancouver too.
Here are all the feature films scheduled to film in and around Vancouver this month.
Feature Films
Deadpool 2
Working title: Love Machine
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Zazie Beetz, Leslie Uggams, T.J. Miller, Morena Baccarin
Director: David Leitch
Writers: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick (screenplay)
Genre: Adult superhero/antihero
Filming schedule: June 26 – October 6, 2017
Release date: June 1, 2018
Related: Ryan Reynolds “Welcomes” Josh Brolin to Deadpool 2
Ryan Reynolds aka Vancity Reynolds is back as the Merc with a mouth in the highly-anticipated R-rated sequel Deadpool 2 aka Love Machine – as it’s known around town under its project name. Reynolds reprises his role as Wade Wilson / Deadpool from the first film which also filmed around Vancouver and went on to be the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. It pumped over $40 million into the provincial economy during production as the eight installment of the X-Men film series within the Marvel Universe.
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Overboard
Anna Faris & Eugenio Derbez Set To Star In ‘Overboard’ Remake https://t.co/jsIzzdxuOx pic.twitter.com/f6prVDAcGg
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) March 6, 2017
Starring: Anna Farris, Eugenio Derbez, Payton Lepinski,
Director: Robert Greenberg, Bob Fisher (screenplay)
Writer: Robert Greenberg, Bob Fisher
Genre: Romantic-Comedy
Filming schedule: May 23 – July 14, 2017
A remake of the 1987 comedy which starred Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell is currently underway. It’s about a wealthy yacht owner who is thrown overboard and gets a taste of their own medicine. The story was also adapted into a South Korean television drama series called Couple or Trouble in 2006.
Distorted
Starring: Christina Ricci, John Cusack, Brendan Fletcher
Director: Rob King
Writer: Arne Olsen
Genre: Drama
Filming schedule: Until June 26, 2017
Filming in Kelowna, Vernon and surrounding areas is scheduled to run through June 26th. Last year the Okanagan also served as backdrop for movies like Power Rangers and The Humanity Project starring Nicolas Cage.
#Distorted w/ Christina Ricci & John Cusack expected to film near Summerhill Period Winery in #Kelowna today. Image credit: Mark Smith. pic.twitter.com/AmjsBca6Zp
— Hollywood North Buzz (@yvrshoots) May 30, 2017
Game Over, Man!
Starring: Adam Devine, Anders Holm, Blake Anderson
Director: Kyle Newacheck
Writer: Anders Holm
Genre: Action-Comedy
Schedule: Until June 5, 2017
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Filming is wrapping up for the action-comedy from the guys behind the Mail Order Comedy group on YouTube and the Workaholics series on Comedy Central. The guys are finally all starring in their own movie together. The “Die Hard in a hotel” flick is being backed by writing and producing partners Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg who are both from Vancouver and attended Point Grey Secondary. They wrote the their 2007 hit comedy Superbad based on experiences from school.
See more pictures of the Game Over, Man! cast and crew around Vancouver.
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Stingray
Starring: Joel Edgerton, Jon Bernthal, Anthony Hayes
Director: Anthony Hayes
Writer: Anthony Hayes
Genre: Crime
Filming schedule: May 15 – June 27, 2017
Release date: 2018
If your brother accidently kills a gangster’s brother and you are tasked with killing off one of your own family members… what would you do? Production of this gritty crime drama is on hiatus according to CreativeBC, with a return date TBD.
Beautiful location scout pic for my movie #stingraymovie pic.twitter.com/dGxBlaVCGY
— Anthony Hayes (@theanthonyhayes) March 25, 2017
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TV Movies
Holiday movies, a Psych reunion and Katharine McPhee!? Television movies of the week aka MOW’s aka TV movies have something for everyone:
Psych: The Movie
Filming schedule: Until June 17, 2017
Calling all Psych-O’s! The fan base for the popular TV show Psych, which filmed in Vancouver, is finally getting a follow-up movie to the show’s eight seasons and 120+ episodes which came to an end in 2014. Filming for the two-hour holiday “reunion” special, which will air this December on USA Network, takes place in Vancouver and San Francisco.
This December brings a true holiday miracle.
Wait for iiit… https://t.co/4gruBY4ixG#PSYCHTheMovie pic.twitter.com/f480FScwYs
— Psych on Peacock (@PsychPeacock) May 8, 2017
Cocaine Godmother
Filming schedule: Until June 30
Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Griselda Blanco in Lifetime’s Cocaine Godmother – about the Miami based drug queen from the 70’s and 80’s. It premieres in 2018.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BURybQxg1Ie/
Countdown to Love
Filming schedule: Until June 8, 2017
Countdown to Love is being directed by Christie Will Wolf who splits her time between LA and Vancouver.
Signed, Sealed, Delivered (8 & 9)
Filming schedule: June 13 – July 21, 2017
Hallmark is stocking up on Signed, Sealed, Delivered movies for its Movies & Mysteries channel as production is green lit for the 8th and 9th installments this summer and a 10th is expected later this year too. The series began as a TV series which had one season and was then expanded by a two-hour “backdoor pilot” movie which cemented its rebranding as TV movies. it stars Eric Mabius, Kristin Booth, Geoff Gustafson and Vancouver’s Crystal Lowe.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BT8JzYDh3yQ/
Summer in the Vineyard
Filming schedule: May 31 – June 18, 2017
Last year’s Autumn in the Vineyard which starred Rachael Leigh Cook and Brendan Penny also filmed in Vancouver for Hallmark.
Engaging Father Christmas
Filming schedule: Until June 28, 2017
Hallmark’s sequel to Finding Father Christmas is shooting around town. Engaging Father Christmas starring Niall Matte and Erin Krakow premieres during this year’s Countdown to Christmas movie lineup.
The Lost Wife of Robert Durst
Filming schedule: Until June 21, 2017
American Idol alum (Season 5 runner-up) Katharine McPhee is set to star in Lifetime’s movie The Lost Wife of Robert Durst based on the book “A Deadly Secret” by Matt Birkbeck. Because production was moved up, McPhee had to forego a World Vision humanitarian trip obligation because of conflicting schedules, she took to Twitter to announce she would make a donation in her absence and make the trip at a later date. She plays the wife, Kathie Durst, in the chilling mystery about who killed her.
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All filming schedule dates are courtesy of Creative BC (CRBC) and What’sFilming (WF), subject to change.