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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If you listen closely during Good Burger 2, you'll catch Sinbad's cameo. But as we learned from the creative team, it was originally a bigger role.
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Will an E.T. sequel ever happen? The OG film stars have talked about it along with director Steven Spielberg, and there was once even a script floating around.
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Eons before Tony Stark was transformed into Ol' Shellhead in Iron Man, the Marvel Cinematic Universe saw the emergence of the Celestials and Infinity Stones.
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The Twilight Zone managed to pull off the effect of an actor acting with himself long before the invention of CGI by utilizing some well placed mirrors.
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It's hard to imagine Star Trek II without Leonard Nimoy's Spock, but there was a moment when it looked like the Vulcan was going to sit the movie out.
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The Twilight Zone frequently pulled some wild tricks to get their surreal scenes just right on camera, but this elephant-sized stunt takes the cake.
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Despite the show's enormous success, series creator Larry Gelbart was in pretty lousy shape mentally and physically when he stepped away from M*A*S*H.
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Eli Roth is nothing if not a master of horror, and when he drew inspiration for Thanksgiving, he pulled from a little-seen masterpiece.
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Ridley Scott has offered up some details on Denzel Washington's character in the upcoming Gladiator 2.
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The Marvels star Iman Vellani has faith in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. If only the fans would 'let them cook.'
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Field of Dreams is about the power of faith, baseball, family, and well, dreams. It's an enduring classic for a reason, and the ending is largely why.
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When it came time to turn MASH into a TV series, only one movie cast member made the leap from the big to the small screen.
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There are officially five Dirty Harry movies (though one could argue there are six) starring Clint Eastwood. Here's how we rank them.
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Bill Cosby could have not only been on Cheers, but been its main character. Thanks to two rules, he was prevented from ever setting foot in Sam's bar.
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Nicolas Cage is one of the most recognizable, unique actors on the planet. While he couldn't relate to such a dull character, he could relate to something else.
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River's Edge is one of the most important independent films of the 1980s, and it wouldn't have come to be without a sad and brutal true crime story.
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Even though it was a ratings juggernaut after it premiered in 1983, NBC canceled The A-Team by 1985. How did it happen, and why?
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MASH movie director Robert Altman was no fan of the MASH TV series, and he wasn't shy about expressing his distaste.
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By the time Billy Dee Williams was approached to play Lando in the Star Wars franchise, he was concerned about being typecast as a 'romantic character.'
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The Will Smith and Charlize Theron superhero film, Hancock, was the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2008, so why haven't we seen Hancock 2?
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Matthew Perry and Bruce Willis made a bet on the set of The Whole Nine Yards and the result gave Willis his second Emmy.
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Adam Sandler might be open to a Happy Gilmore sequel, and Christopher McDonald has a pitch ready to go, but is it likely to happen?
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An early version of 2018's Halloween script featured a different version of Jamie Lee Curtis's Laurie Strode character – one whose life was a lot more stable.
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The bar in Cheers is synonymous with Boston but was almost a Southwest dive in the desert. Can you imagine Sam as a (possible) former ranch hand?
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MASH director Robert Altman believes his two leading men conspired to have him fired due to his unorthodox methods. But one of the actors disputes that claim.
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Edgar Wright has dabbled with comic book movies and superheroes before, but he turned down the chance to direct Channing Tatum in a Gambit film.
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The original plan for Frasier Crane was thankfully abandoned after Cheers, giving us the beloved series we have today.