Ya, that and the Canadian dollar being so weak. For a few years there it was on par with the US dollar and the BC film industry ('Hollywood North' as they call it) took a HUGE hit. It's booming again now though. I'd wager 75% of ads I see on TV that have cities in the background are in Vancouver, and a good chunk of TV too (especially the lower budget cable shows).
Right down the street from my house there's this weird old 2-story fully concrete building with no windows. It was some sort of bank-related building that now has no tenant and is slated to be re-developed someday, so there's filming there probably every other week. They have to give us film notices on our doors by law. They've filmed a few of those Marvel-based TV shows, Arrow, X-Files, a movie or two. They filmed a X-Files scene there a year or so ago where there was a big car crash on the round-about right outside my door. They rammed two cars into each-other right over the round-about at a pretty good speed which was cool to see. Another time they filmed a riot scene at night which was pretty crazy. There was even a paparazzi who stood on our patio (we're street level) to take shots of Gillian Anderson
Cool guy, told me there only about 2-3 pap in the city so it's good work (despite my feelings that they're scumbags).
Originally Posted by Godfather
Ya, that and the Canadian dollar being so weak. For a few years there it was on par with the US dollar and the BC film industry ('Hollywood North' as they call it) took a HUGE hit. It's booming again now though. I'd wager 75% of ads I see on TV that have cities in the background are in Vancouver, and a good chunk of TV too (especially the lower budget cable shows).
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