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 and 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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Tom Selleck has starred on the hit CBS series, Blue Bloods, for 14 seasons ... so why is the network canceling a show that consistently performs well?
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With The Brave and the Bold set to introduce Ben Affleck's replacement as Batman in the DC Universe, here are our picks for the next Caped Crusader.
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Walter Koenig's original Star Trek VI pitch concluded the adventures of the U.S.S. Enterprise and its crew on a much grislier note.
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Clint Eastwood has starred in several legendary Westerns, but he also appeared in one that he would later declare the worst movie ever made.
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Here's how a pair of locations from CBS' Western drama Gunsmoke wound up making their way into the network's slapstick comedy hit Gilligan's Island.
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The Big Bang Theory fans got a bonus bit of Howard's romantic bumbling in the pages of a beloved DC character's comic book adventures.
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Far from dialing back the extreme gore, Terrifier 3 features a disturbing scene that might just be the horror franchise's savage piece de resistance.
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Before they played the Professor and Skipper on Gilligan's Island, Russell Johnson and Alan Hale Jr. appeared in a '50s Western together.
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The runtime for Ridley Scott's highly anticipated Gladiator II has been revealed, so you can start making your plans for opening night.
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Pernell Roberts became famous for playing Adam Cartwright on Bonanza, only to leave the popular Western series well before its final season.
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Lady Gaga kissed a woman while filming Joker: Folie à Deux, only for director Todd Phillips to cut it out of the final movie. Here's why he did.
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There's an amusing (but accidental) link between Matt Damon's character in Steven Soderbergh's 2011 film Contagion and Kamala Harris.
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Spencer Treat Clark, who originated the role of Lucius in Gladiator, has weighed in on Paul Mescal playing the character all grown up in Gladiator II.
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Megalopolis and Joker: Folie à Deux are the biggest cinematic disasters of 2024, yet they're very different kinds of cautionary tales.
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Legendary actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood once revealed his all-time-favorite movie, and the answer might surprise you.
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Welcome Back, Kotter was one of the best comedies of the 1970s. Here's what all of the still alive major actors have been up to since the show ended.
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A Valentine's Day Instagram photo from Joker: Folie a Deux director Todd Phillips takes on a whole new context after seeing the scene it's taken from.
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If Russell Johnson had a do-over, he probably would have never set sail on the S.S. Minnow as The Professor on Gilligan's Island.
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Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld took an...unconventional approach to asking for the money needed to change the film's ending from its initial version.
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Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld had a nice and easy fix for making the film's plot easier to follow, and it came down to some alien subtitles.
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Natalie Schafer was a show business veteran who had a good idea of what Gilligan's Island would do for her career, and she reacted appropriately.
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James Remar (you may remember him as the guy who played Dexter's dad on Dexter) was originally cast as Hicks in Aliens. Here's why he wasn't in the movie.
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If The Big Bang Theory had went with the original plan for Penny, we can't imagine Kaley Cuoco would have went out for the role.
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It's impossible to picture anyone other than Winona Ryder playing Lydia in Beetlejuice, but Tim Burton almost cast someone else in the role.
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Lady Gaga fans have been eager to see her role as Harley Quinn in Joker 2, but now that some have seen the movie, they're upset about deleted scenes.
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If you're a fan of this classic Simpsons bit, have no fear – the writers have no plans to stop writing it into the show.
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The Highlander and Police Academy movie series have surprisingly more in common than you may realize (including one unflattering distinction).