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Familiar cityscapes, streetscapes and landscapes that can fill in for most parts of the U.S.
Funnily, 1995 movie Rumble In The Bronx with Jackie Chan where action supposed to take place in NYC was filmed in Vancouver downtown and Spanish Banks beach, I believe, with freaking mountains in New York! That's familiar cityscape for sure!
Also funnily, I never noticed this major goof before though I've watched this movie several times.
Not saying one is better than the other, you can't substitute one for the other if you've lived in both cities and appreciate the difference. But moviegoers on the other side of the world won't really know it. Jackie once owned a house in Richmond but it was sold and is now a B&B. So I suspect there may be more scenes filmed here in the last 2 decades. In fact, there is one "Vancouver's winter" with international students as the theme.
Not saying one is better than the other, you can't substitute one for the other if you've lived in both cities and appreciate the difference. But moviegoers on the other side of the world won't really know it. Jackie once owned a house in Richmond but it was sold and is now a B&B. So I suspect there may be more scenes filmed here in the last 2 decades. In fact, there is one "Vancouver's winter" with international students as the theme.
I think it's also important to remember that there is a spring field quality to most movies these days.
Nobody wants to alienate any potential audience, so people typically avoid direct references to any one city.
The Hollywood liberal producers who contribute so heavily to the Democratic party don't extend that thinking to their own business.
Talk about outsourcing. They are only to happy to criticize other corporations and businesses for doing that but when it comes to them, they will take away money and working class jobs from southern California if it suits them so they can afford the $20 million payout to the star of the movie.
Canada’s federal government introduced the labour-based Production Services Tax Credit program in 1997.
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After the launch of Canada’s federal program, many provincial governments across Canada also introduced labour-based and spend-based tax incentive programs making Canada an even more attractive destination for foreign producers.
Are any TV shows or movies actually filmed in wintertime up there?
Thinking about this from the angle of fictional productions, and most Canadian productions made for Canada are set in the summertime. If I think of an English Canadian show like Flashpoint it seems it is always summer in Toronto and the cops are always in short sleeves. Quebec productions are the same - very predominantly shot and set in the summer.
Unless winter is part of the theme of the movie, like this classic from when I was a kid:
As for American stuff shot in Canada, well in some cases Hollywood actually comes to Canada for the snowy scenes, so you get some winter shooting.
I also noticed that Hollywood seems to have a lot more productions set in snowy landscapes, in New England and cities like Chicago and New York. More than made-for-Canada productions do.
For Americans, the snowy setting is often used to set up a contrast with warmer places like California or Florida at another point in the story.
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