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16 Movies Filming in Vancouver This July

By Amar Mirchandani ·
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The BC film industry continues its momentum from June into summer  with a number of Hollywood blockbusters, Chinese films, independent projects and television movies scheduled for production.

RELATED: 14 Movies Filming in Vancouver This June

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In total there are 11 feature films and 5 television movies filming in and around Vancouver this July:

FEATURE FILMS

Some of the movie stars to hit Vancouver this July include, Meagan Good, Dennis Quaid, Anna Faris, Eva Longoria, Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Sam Claflin, Jon Bernthal, Joel Edgerton, Chow Yun-Fat, Aaron Kwok, Johnny Depp and more.

Motivated Seller

Starring: Michael Ealy, Dennis Quaid, Meagan Good, Joseph Sikora
Director: Helm Deon Taylor
Genre: Psychological, Thriller
Schedule: June 19 – July 21, 2017

Meagan Good returns to Vancouver after filming FOX’s Miniority Report here which was cancelled after one season. In this psychological thriller, a young couple moves into their dream home but has to deal with the previous owner. The screenplay is from David Loughrey who is known for Lakeview Terrance and Obsessed.

Overboard

Starring: Anna Faris, Eugenio Derbez, Eva Longoria
Director: Robert Greenberg
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Schedule: May 23 – July 14, 2017

The 1987 comedy-classic starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russel gets a remake. Lots of filming has been taking place in the Steveston area of Richmond where ABC’s Once Upon a Time has used as a main setting over the years.

Deadpool 2

Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Zazie Beetz
Director: David Leitch
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Schedule: June 26 – October 6, 2017

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The sequel to the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time is underway in Vancouver and looks to make more of the city famous like it did the Georgia viaduct and Number 5 Orange. ‘Vancity Reynolds’ welcomes Josh Brolin to the cast as Cable.

Richard Says Goodbye

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Starring: Johnny Depp
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Schedule: from July 24, 2017

Johnny Depp returns to Vancouver after shooting additional scenes for the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie in North Vancouver last year. He also shot the 1980’s hit TV show 21 Jump Street here. He plays a college professor in Richard Says Goodbye who receives a “life-changing diagnosis” and dives into every vice possible.

Dragged Across Concrete

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Starring: Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn
Director: Craig Zahler
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Schedule: July 17 – September 16, 2017
Release: 2018

Vince Vaughn (Wedding Crashers, Dodgeball) laces up his dramatic boots for this crime movie as a young policeman alongside Mel Gibson (Braveheart, Lethal Weapon) as the veteran cop. The pair get caught in a media firestorm over their ‘serve & protect’ ways and get pulled deeper into the criminal underworld.

Semper Fi

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Starring: Sam Claflin, Nat Wolff
Director: Henry-Alex Rubin
Writers: Henry-Alex Rubin, Sean Mullin
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Schedule: from July 5, 2017

British actor Sam Claflin plays a cop and Marine Corps Reserve who gets deployed to Iraq. He comes home from deployment with a new mission; to break his brother out of prison. Claflin can currently be seen in theatres alongside Rachel Weiz in My Cousin Rachel.

Stingray

Starring: Jon Bernthal, Joel Edgerton
Director/Writer: Anthony Hayes
Genre: Crime
Schedule: from July 2017

Previously on hiatus, Anthony Hayes’ family-crime-drama Stingray is expected to commence production in Vancouver this summer.

Summer of ’84

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Directors:François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell
Genre: Horror
Schedule: July 10 – August 10, 2017

A group of teens think a neighbour is a serial killer, but he also happens to be a police officer.

Project Gutenberg

Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Aaron Kwok, Liu Kai-Chi, Zhang Jingchu
Chinese Title: Unparalleled
Working Title: One of a Kind
Director: Felix Chong
Schedule: July 13 – 31, 2017
Release: 2018

Hong Kong filmmaker Felix Chong, known for the Chinese film series Infernal Affairs which was adapted into Hollywood’s The Departed, shoots  in Vancouver this July. Project Gutenberg, known locally under its project title “One of a Kind” filmed in Hong Kong this spring with additional shooting scheduled for Canada and Thailand. It’s about a Hong Kong police case following currency counterfeiters through a gang.

13 Miles

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Starring: Jovanna Burke, Sadie Silcock, Naomi Levi, Jeff Gonek
Directors/Writers: Anthony Epp, Helena Thorn
Genre: Sports, Drama
Schedule: May 19 – August 20, 2017

From married filmmakers Anthony Epp and Helena Thorn comes 13 Miles which they wrote and direct together. It’s an independent Canadian sports drama about human identity and centers around a triathlon champion and the woman by his side.

Fatal Visit

Director: Yuen Leung Calvin Poon
Schedule: until July 31, 2017

Hong Kong filmmaker Yuen Leung Calvin Poon is shooting Fatal Visit around town throughout July. *The cast and film details were unknown at the time of publishing.

TV Movies

Last month was big for TV movies in town as Psych filmed its holiday special, Catherine Zeta-Jones played Cocaine Godmother and Katharine McPhee was in town.

A Bramble House Christmas

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Starring: Autumn Reeser
Schedule: July 10 – 28, 2017

The Christmas movies A Bramble House Christmas is based on the novel by CJ Carmichael. It stars The O.C. and Hawaii 5-0 alum Autumn Reeser who has starred in a number of other TV movies for Hallmark.

Gourmet Detective 4: Eat, Drink and Be Buried

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Starring: Dylan Neal, Brooke Burns
Schedule: from July 10, 2017

Canadian actor Dylan Neal reprises his role as Henry Ross in the 4th installment of Gourmet Detective for Hallmark.

Signed, Sealed, Delivered (Movie 8 & 9)

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Starring: Eric Mabius, Kristin Booth, Geoff Gustafson, Crystal Lowe
Schedule: June 13 – July 21, 2017

Hallmark is shooting back-to-back installments of Signed, Sealed, Delivered with a 10th one expected for later this year too.

To All The Boys I Loved Before
Schedule: July 5 – August 4, 2017

Inside Voice
Schedule: July 10 – July 28, 2017

AUGUST

August is going to be hot as well as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will be in town filming Skyscraper, a China-set action movie. Canadian actress Neve Campbell has just been added to the cast; she is known for series like House of Cards, Mad Men and Party of Five and the Scream film franchise.

All filming schedule dates are courtesy of Creative BC (CRBC)
and What’sFilming (WF), subject to change.

 

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