Scott Renshaw
Scott Renshaw is Arts & Entertainment Editor at Salt Lake City Weekly, and author of the book Happy Place: Living the Disney Parks Life, available from Theme Park Press.
From the start, Disney+’s Andor series occupied a weird place as not just a prequel, but a prequel to a prequel. As a result,...
The thing about dreams is that there are almost always multiple ways to interpret them—which makes it somehow appropriate that there’s a variety of...
Nostalgia, as the saying goes, is a hell of a drug—and the Disney company has certainly seemed like it’s addicted to it. From live-action...
As a Disneyland fan who is also a non-California resident without unlimited income or a YouTube channel, I have to be somewhat selective about...
Without rehashing the entire laundry list of stumbles, it’s fair to say that 2023 was not a good year for Marvel Studios. One of...
There’s a line that Disney+ has been showing in its trailers and promotions for season 2 of Loki, in which our anti-hero (Tom Hiddleston)...
In the beginning of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there was Robert Downey, Jr.’s Iron Man—but in a more accurate sense, in the beginning of...
If the past decade has taught us anything about the leadership of the Walt Disney Company, it is this: They’re leaning into recognizable intellectual...
For most visitors, the idea of a day at a Disney Park is inextricably linked to rides: planning your schedule, standing in lines, navigating...
Approximately 2-1/2 years into the life of Disney+, the streaming service’s record for content that focuses on the Disney Parks is … a bit...
Exactly what is The Mandalorian at this point? I don’t mean that question to sound super-
philosophical, like “what is the sound of one hand...
Fall 2022 turned into kind of a peak moment for franchise high-fantasy on streaming services, with the coinciding runs of House of the Dragon...
Let’s face it: The legacy of attaching the words “holiday special” to an established pop-culture property isn’t exactly a new idea. A lot of...
Maybe it’s a lot to ask in the world of franchise brand extensions and an eternal sequel/reboot/re-sequel cycle, but I’m going to ask it...
There are plenty of different ways to get extra mileage out of a successful property, from sequels and prequels to spinoffs of supporting characters....
“It’s all the same.” That’s been the complaint leveled at Marvel Studios products for some time now, to the extent that it always feels...
How do you justify a prequel to a prequel? The Star Wars universe, like many pop-culture properties, has been immersed in recent years in...
Considering the phenomenal artistic and financial success of Pixar over nearly 30 years, the Cars franchise remains a weird outlier. It has unquestionably been...
Just in case you haven’t been paying attention to the promotional comments made by Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige and series creator Jessica Gao...
There’s room for a lot more eccentric weirdness in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, stuff that doesn’t feel like it was polished to a mass-market...