What TV shows and movies are filming in the Vancouver area this winter

The air may be cooling but the Vancouver-area TV and film business is heating up with a bunch of new productions.

Here’s a look at some of the Hollywood North productions that are filming in-and-around Vancouver this winter:

NOTE: This is not an exhaustive list of everything shooting around the province, as it includes only productions registered with Creative B.C., the Director’s Guild of Canada B.C., and the ACFC (the Association of Canadian Film Crafts technical union) West.

The feature-length horror project is directed by Alexandra Magistro and produced by Mike Flanagan, whose Vancouver-shot series Carrie is a hit on Amazon Prime Video. Starring Cooper Koch, Rot focuses on an anti-social man with obsessive-compulsive habits who is haunted by the death of his hoarder mother. To face his past, he takes a job as a trauma cleaner. The film also stars Amber Midthunder and Matthew Lillard, and is shooting from Nov. 14-Dec. 18.

This feature film, directed by Tom Berkeley and Ross White, stars Jack O’Connell and Odessa A’zion as a couple of kooky kids who go on a pilgrimage to prove that the Earth is flat. Filming begins Nov. 2 and continues through Dec. 14.

Nicolas Cage returns for the sequel to Longlegs, the Vancouver-shot 2024 indie hit that took in $175 million in box office receipts on a $10 million budget. Director Osgood Perkins is back at the helm for the film, which is produced in part by Chris Ferguson of Vancouver’s Oddfellows Entertainment. It has been reported that the project will have $20 million budget with major studio backing from Paramount. The production is expected to run Jan. 18-March 27, with the film hitting theatres in January 2028.

The horror film starring Vancouver-filmed Riverdale star KJ Appa and Nadia Parks from HBO’s Youth begins shooting Dec. 7 and will wrap Jan. 27. Info on this movie is thin, but a few internet sites have speculated that the plot revolves around a rich heir who meets a young woman on a dating app. And then the twist is the heir lives with a man who dresses up and acts like a dog. So, there’s that.

The FX comedy series, inspired by Mel Brooks’s classic 1974 film, is executive produced by Brooks, Stefani Robinson, Taika Waititi and Garrett Basch. Oscar winner Waititi directed the pilot, which stars Zach Galifianakis, Dolly Wells, Spencer House, Nikki Crawford, Kumail Nanjiani and Cary Elwes. The series is shooting through to Dec. 17.