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except that BG is a TV show, not a film. TV shows would be too numerous to enumerate.

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~ B.C. Ferries - Bird on a Wire
~ The former B.C. Pavillion now Something’er’other Casino - X-Men II
~ St. Andrews Church - also X-Men II
~ St Paul’s Hospital - Unforgettable (an ironically titled film, took me ten minutes to recall the name)

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Parts of Jumanji were shot in the Maple Ridge Water Park. Actually, from what I remember, most of that movie was shot in BC. The “Sir Save-a-lot” ( or whatever the name of the generic supermarket was ) was actually a supermarket in Kelowna, if I remember correctly.

And parts of X-Men III were recently shot near my house near the boundaries of the UBC Research Forest.

Many of the hovercraft sequences near the end of “Rumble in the Bronx”, a Jackie Chan movie, were shot in Vancouver.

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Derek - Good point. I’ll update that once we’re done here.

Though, I’m troubled by the lack of title-style capitalization there. I wouldn’t have complained, except I can’t edit the title to change the case.

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UBC - Hackers, Butterfly Effect

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Thank you so much!!

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Mr. Magoo was also shot in the VPL Downtown Branch Atrium (they made it into a museum).

I’m sure Stakeout and Another Stakeout have to have something recognizable in them (pretty sure BC Ferries were featured in Another Stakeout).

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SFU:
Outer Limits,
Battlestar Galactica (market scenes)

UBC:
Battlestar Galactica (Caprica scenes, both around Koerner Library and in the Endowment Lands)

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Parts of Lynn Headwaters are visible in Jumanji, and many of the other scenes were filmed in Dunbar.

Almost all of “Rumble in the Bronx” was filmed in Vancouver, which became kind of a in-joke in the industry, as the North Shore “Mountains of the Bronx” were frequently visible in the background. And there’s a great stunt where the Jackie Chan character is supposed to jump between the Woodward’s parking lot and a fire escape across the alley, but was actually performed by the film’s directory because Chan broke his foot early in the filming when leaping onto a Coast Guard hovercraft.

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“The Butterfly Effect” — I recognized the Park theatre interior and a scene outside Koerner Library at UBC; I’m sure there were others as well.

“Paycheck” — many recognizable locations like the train yards in North Vancouver and a corner in downtown Van (where Ben Affleck gets off the bus).

“Carnal Knowledge” — I’ve never seen this film but I’ve heard there is a famous scene where Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel are talking on the steps of the SUB at UBC.

Currently IMDb lists 1421 titles with Vancouver filming locations, though that includes television series.

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“Rumble in the Bronx” also had scenes along Front Street, New Westminster; and there’s a scene in Mr Magoo aboard the New West paddlewheeler which used to (still does?)run day trips along the Fraser River to Fort Langley.The cruise company used to be called the Fraser River Connection, but was called “Paddlewheeler River Adventures” in the movie — the boat owners liked it so much,they took that as their new name!!
“Man of the House” starring Chevy Chase and Farrah Fawcett, is one of the best travelogues for Vancouver — though it’s supposed to be Seattle. Shot in 1994, the finale pans back from a West End apartment rooftop to a great view of the city, including the ex-Sears tower doubling for the space needle!!! These days though,film makers often pan in so tightly around the action that it’s hard to be sure of specific backgrounds, unless you’re really familiar with them. (Which most Vancouver residents would be.)
Cheers and good luck with your “locations collection”.

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The first RAMBO film FIRST BLOOD was shot near Vancouver… in HOPE, BC.

Also Rocky 4 shot some fight scenes at the Agradome at the PNE.

GET CARTER was also in Vancouver.

Not too menchion The 6th Day, Happy Gilmore, I-Robot, and all of the X-men films.

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[...] years ago (almost to the day), I wrote a blog post soliciting filming locations in and around Vancouver. Derek thought it would make a good Wikipedia [...]

There was a movie recently filmed in Vancouver that had some sort of a car chase or driving scene that showed GM Place and/or BC Place in plain view. Anyone know which movie this is?

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I saw bright purple flashing lights a while back near jericho and kits. There was a film crew with loads of equipment there. Was that War of The Worlds? It looked alot like the lights in that movie.

Also an old 80s orange camper van that is always parked on the lookout point at UBC closest to 49th and 41st street entrance was in Chaos Theory 2008.

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