until July 20<\/a>, according to Creative BC.\u00a0James Clayton directs the feature film.<\/p>\nDuhamel has starred in several films and TV shows, including\u00a0playing Captain\/Lieutenant Colonel William Lennox in the\u00a0Transformers franchise. Notably, he’s also the ex-husband\u00a0of pop superstar and former Black Eyed Peas member\u00a0Fergie.<\/p>\n
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Metro Vancouver filming locations: Maple Ridge experiencing\u00a0film\u00a0boom<\/p>\n
Hollywood North\u00a0doesn’t neatly fit into one portion of the Lower Mainland. Sure, many big productions film scenes in big cities, utilizing our elegant hotels, cool caf\u00e9s, eclectic bars, swanky restaurants,\u00a0and stunning waterfront backdrop, but they also like to venture into the wild. Luckily, B.C. doesn’t have a shortage of awe-inspiring forests to shoot in.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Maple Ridge is reaping the benefits of the outdoorsy shoot call, “experiencing a record-breaking year for film production,\u00a0with more than double the number of shoot days compared to the same time last year,” according to a news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In total, the city has recorded 260 shoot days, up from 116 during the same period in 2025. Additionally, it has recorded 506 total film activity days, including prep and wrap days, compared to 188 last year.<\/p>\n
What does that mean money-wise?\u00a0<\/p>\n
The city reports an\u00a0“estimated $7.62 million in local economic impact, nearly triple the $2.68 million generated during the same period last year.”<\/p>\n
Another 10 to 12 productions are underway in Maple Ridge in July, which is “largely by a significant increase in episodic television production,” according to the city.<\/p>\n
The city shouted out Duhamel for praising it to his sizable Instagram following of 2.5 million, noting that he was in Allco Park<\/a> for filming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We live in a pretty place. “British Columbia, baby!” A popular American actor has been roaming around B.C.\u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-806325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}