Jeremy Smith
Location
Salt Lake City, UT
Expertise
New Hollywood Cinema, Westerns, Soundtracks
- In 2005, Jeremy created the website Collider with Steve Weintraub and "American Pie" producer Warren Zide.
- His first book, "George Clooney: Anatomy of an Actor", was published by Phaidon Press and is available wherever fine books are sold. His second book, "When It Was Cool", a memoir about his experiences as a pioneering online journalist, is due later this year.
- He was the co-host of the popular "Twin Peaks" podcast "Fire Talk with Me" with Allie Goertz.
Experience
Jeremy Smith is an entertainment writer with over two decades of experience that stretches back to the infancy of online journalism. He found his love for film criticism on Usenet forums in the mid-1990s, and quarreled his way into a staff position at Ain't It Cool News under the nom de plume "Mr. Beaks." Jeremy has previously written for film and pop culture websites like Collider, Yardbarker and Ain't It Cool News, and legacy media publications like Variety, New York and Cahiers du Cinéma. Additional credits include Vice, Fangoria, Thrillist, Polygon, Backstory Magazine, Birth.Movies.Death, CHUD, Creative Screenwriting, Endcrawl and DVD Journal.
Education
Jeremy earned a BFA in Theatre Arts & Drama from Ohio University. His scholastic achievements earned him an internship at the legendary Circle Repertory Theatre, where he continued his theatrical education under the supervision of Austin Pendleton and Milan Stitt.
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Stories By Jeremy Smith
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire will reclaim what all of the sequels lost, according to star Kumail Nanjiani, and that is legitimate scares.
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Joel Edgerton was inspired by one of the great coaches in film history for his The Boys in the Boat character, one played by Gene Hackman.
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When Disney picked up Marvel Studios, it was a big deal, but without the help of the late Apple boss Steve Jobs, it might not have ever happened.
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Melrose Place was the covert playground for the GALA Committee, an upstart artist collective that hid protest art throughout the soap opera's sets.
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Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson, and George Wendt all threw up together while filming Cheers, because that's what friends do, folks.
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M*A*S*H creator Larry Gelbart learned how to strike the show's tonal balance in an episode featuring Andy Griffith's television son himself, Ron Howard.
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The Mask of Zorro writer Terry Rossio told /Film that a pivotal scene between Anthony Hopkins and Catherine Zeta Jones was Hopkins' idea.
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The M*A*S*H writers had to adapt to a sudden fire that swept across their set, but if you've seen the finale, you'll know nothing feels forced.
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A prank gone wrong on the set of Tony Scott's 1996 sports thriller The Fan led to Sony implementing an edict for all of its future film productions.
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Lawrence Montaigne, the actor hired to replace Leonard Nimoy on an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, ended up staying affiliated with Trek for years.
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Sam Rockwell is one of the best parts of Iron Man 2, and voicing a guinea pig in a silly children's movie helped get him the job.
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True Detective: Night Country director Issa Lopez sees Jodie Foster's character in direct relationship to her iconic Silence of the Lambs character Clarice.
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There was a Nick Fury movie in the works at DreamWorks, but due to the splintered nature of rights in the early Marvel era, we never saw it.
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She may have only been a teenager at the time, but Natalie Portman channeled an ancient form of performance for her role in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
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Love Story was the top box office grosser of 1970 and one of the jewels in the late Ryan O'Neal's crown. Here's what the ending means.
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A cut line from Saavik in Star Trek VI: The Voyage Home would have changed Spock's story forever.
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Competing streaming platforms are planning to offer bundled services to customers. The sticker tag price will be lower, but there is still a cost.
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MASH star Gary Burghoff endeared audiences as Radar, but he almost had the chance to write an episode of his very own.
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Kevin Costner's father told him he was taking a big risk playing the ruthless rancher John Dutton on a 'naughty show' like Yellowstone.
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The upcoming Blumhouse movie Imaginary gives us a teddy bear neamed Chauncey and so much more. Here's what we know so far about the film.
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The cast and crew of M*A*S*H just couldn't keep it together during this hilarious scene during a third season episode, and you can see why.
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A24 and Bodies Bodies Bodies director Halina Reijn are taking a stab at the erotic thriller with the upcoming Babygirl. Here's what we know about the film.
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George Lucas specifically courted Irvin Kershner for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, so why didn't he return for future films?
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/Film spoke with famed director Rob Reiner about his new podcast Who Killed JFK?, and the throughline it shares with his work as a filmmaker.
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/Film spoke with Jackass star Steve-O about Steve-O's Bucket List, his new stand-up special that includes footage of him performing bonkers stunts.
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Eddie Murphy is coming back as Axel Foley in the fourth Beverly Hills Cop movie, Here's everything we know about the upcomong film.
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William Shatner's notorious off-screen reputation in Star Trek got a heavy workout in season 2.