The weak Canadian dollar already has Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal busy with Hollywood movies and TV series shooting locally this summer. But the loonie, as Canada’s dollar coin is known, on Wednesday tumbling in value against the American greenback appears set to lure even more Los Angeles producers across the border in 2016, say local industry players. X-Men: Apocalypse, directed by Bryan Singer and starring Jennifer Lawrence and James McAvoy, and the Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner-starring sci-fi pic Story of Your Life, directed by Denis Villeneuve, are shooting in Montreal this summer. And Toronto has been busy with local shoots for Warner Bros.’ Suicide Squad and Ricky Gervais’ directorial debut Special Correspondents, while Vancouver has hosted movie shoots for the Ryan Reynolds-starrer Deadpool and Steven Spielberg’s The BFG. U.S. network TV series have also been thick on the ground shooting in Canada.
