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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Christopher Walken's best role is also one that came with a serious physical commitment.
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Ryan Gosling had to overcome a fear of heights to perform one of the stunts in The Fall Guy.
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Sherry Lansing, 20th Century Fox studio's first female president of production, sparked a police chase on the studio lot during her first day on the job.
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The script for one of the most notorious episodes of Seinfeld has leaked. Is it as bad as legends claim? You be the judge.
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Guy Ritchie's 'spectacular dyslexia' led to him writing Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels in an unconventional fashion.
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The Western genre would never be the same again after Clint Eastwood joined forces with Sergio Leone in the '60s for A Fistful of Dollars.
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Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptation of The Outsiders is considered a classic, but it wouldn't have happened without some help from real teenagers.
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John Sturges was a crisis-averting machine, which came in handy when he faced an impending actors' strike while making his 1960 classic The Magnificent Seven.
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Steven Spielberg wanted John Wayne in '1941,' but despite the legendary filmmaker directing, The Duke was uninterested in this 'un-American' film.
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Is director Quentin Tarantino's final film, The Movie Critic, really dead? Have we lost out on a QT cinematic universe?
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Danger, Will Robinson! Here are the only major actors still alive from Lost in Space and what they've been up to after all these years.
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The Oscar-winning documentary O.J. Simpson: Made in America is now available to stream on Netflix.
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Independence Day director Roland Emmerich's 1998 Godzilla did not impress critics or audiences. Here's the saga of how it came to be, and where it stands on RT.
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Kirstie Alley's Cheers audition was great, save for one small problem: nobody remembered to film it for NBC executives.
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Brad Dourif says he's pretty much retired from acting, with the notable exception of Chucky, of course.
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Huge film festival shake-up: the Sundance Film Festival is looking to leave Park City, Utah.
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General Veers, the character played by Julian Glover in The Empire Strikes Back, nearly appeared in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. Here's why he didn't make it.
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Even the infamously unruly Bill Murray stuck to the script for Groundhog Day most of the time, save for one interaction with Ned Ryerson (Stephen Tobolowsky).
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This infamous 1960s historical epic cost Fox Studios a lot of money.
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Steven Spielberg's story for the horror classic Poltergeist owes a lot to the work of Richard Matheson, especially his Twilight Zone episode 'Little Girl Lost.'
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Adam Sandler is the four-quadrant king of Netflix.
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Stop the planet of the apes, I want to get off! For now, though, here's what we saw of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes at CinemaCon 2024.
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We saw some bloody footage from Wolf Man at CinemaCon 2024!
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Warner Bros. showed footage from Bong Joon-ho's Parasite follow-up Mickey 17 at CinemaCon. There are no words to explain his new Robert Pattinson sci-fi flick.
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What a twist! We got to see footage from M. Night Shyamalan's new thriller Trap at CinemaCon 2024.
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Ishana Night Shyamalan, daughter of M. Night, tries her hand at directing a creepy thriller with The Watchers. Here's what we saw from the film at CinemaCon.
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Fatal Attraction gave Glenn Close her best role - but she almost didn't get the part.