High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Air Bud: Golden Receiver is the 1998 sequel to Air Bud. This family film was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is also the last of the Air Bud films to be released theatrically. Outside the United States the film was often titled `Air Bud 2.` This is also the last Air Bud film to star the original Air Bud (Air Buddy), who died of lung cancer in 1998. This film is in memory of him.