Film and TV productions keep rolling through Metro Vancouver this July
Amazon's Life is Strange, season 2 of Off Campus, and five other shows are shooting across the region.
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While the FIFA World Cup dominates headlines across Metro Vancouver, film and television production continues unabated across the region. Several major productions are scheduled to film this July, bringing Hollywood work to local crews and locations.
Amazon Prime's new series Life is Strange will begin filming June 29. The show stars Maisy Stella (My Old Ass, Nashville), Tatum Grace Hopkins (Life is Strange, Meek), Tom Cullen (Trespasses, The Gold), Leisha Hailey (The L Word), Raúl Castillo (The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, Looking: The Movie), and Owen Teague (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, IT). The story follows a photography student who discovers she can rewind time while saving her childhood best friend. As she struggles to understand the ability, the pair investigates a mysterious student disappearance, uncovering a dark side to their town. Filming runs under the working title "Fender" and is expected to wrap October 16.
Off Campus Season 2, a steamy college-set romance about a music student and a university hockey star, begins filming June 2 and continues through September 18. The production uses the working title "Skylight."
The Probability of Miracles, based on Wendy Wunder's young adult fiction, stars Henry Eikenberry (Euphoria, American Horror Stories), Melissa Collazo (One of Us Is Lying, Motorheads), and Ginnifer Goodwin (He's Just Not That Into You, Big Love). The series follows Campbell Cooper, a teenager with a cancer diagnosis who moves with her family to a town called Promise, where miracles are said to occur. Filming runs June 25 through October 7.
Animal Control Season 5, starring Joel McHale (Community, The Soup, Scream 7) as a former cop turned animal control officer, films June 15 through August 21.
Virgin River Season 8 is also shooting in the Lower Mainland during this period.
A prequel series for the 2001 comedy Legally Blonde wrapped filming in June, along with other productions that have concluded their Vancouver shoots.