History Trivia / TurningRed

*** Her mother Ming is voiced by the movie actress Yoshino Kimura, who many non-Japanese viewers may recognize as the Japanese housewife in ''Film/{{Blindness}}''; she has also previously worked in Japanese dubs before, and some of her most well-known roles were Kida in ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' and Master Tigress in the first two ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' movies, being the latter smack-dab into the HilariousInHindsight territory, considering Tigress' mentor, Master Shifu, is a red panda. In this film, she voices a mother whose daughter transforms into a red panda [[spoiler:and who herself transforms into a red panda as well]].

** In the ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''/''Franchise/StarWars''/Creator/{{Disney}} crossover short, ''WesternAnimation/MayThe12thBeWithYou'', Mei and Ming can be seen alongside other Pixar characters.

** And just ''Red''.

*** Her mother Ming is voiced by the movie actress Yoshino Kimura, who many non-Japanese viewers may recognize as the Japanese housewife in ''Film/{{Blindness}}''; she has also previously worked in Japanese dubs before, and some of her most well-known roles were Kida in ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' and Master Tigress in the first two ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' movies, being the latter smack-dab into the HilariousInHindsight territory, considering Tigress' mentor, Master Shifu, is a red panda. In this film, she voices a mother whose daughter transforms into a red panda [[spoiler: and who herself transforms into a red panda as well]].

!{{Trivia}} tropes for ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed''

*** Her mother Ming is voiced by the movie actress Yoshino Kimura, who many non-Japanese viewers may recognize as the Japanese housewife in ''Film/{{Blindness}}''; she has also previously worked in Japanese dubs before, and some of her most well-known roles were Kida in ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' and Master Tigress in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', being the latter smack-dab into the HilariousInHindsight territory, considering Tigress' mentor, Master Shifu, is a red panda. In this film, she voices a mother whose daughter transforms into a red panda [[spoiler: and who herself transforms into a red panda as well]].

** There was originally a fully animated sequence of the photoshoot that produced the Happy New Year 1994 photo in the intro, revealing that Ming completely dismantled a mall photo studio's conventional New Year's backdrop and put up her own, as well as posed Mei. This was cut since having such rude and controlling behavior serve as Ming's EstablishingCharacterMoment would have turned audiences against her from the get-go.

** There was originally a fully animated sequence of the photoshoot that produced the Happy New Year 1994 photo in the intro.

** In Norwegian, the movie is simply just called "Rød" (Red).

* WorkingTitle: According to the "Making Of" video, the film had various [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNnjyqmUYAEm4R7?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 developmental names]], some of the PunBasedTitle variety. Such examples include:
** [[Music/TheNotoriousBig Notorious]] RPG[[note]]Red Panda Girl[[/note]]
** [[Anime/MyNeighborTotoro My Neighbor]] Toronto
** [[AllPeriodsArePMS PMS]][[note]]Panda Mayhem Story[[/note]]
** Girl In Red
** Panda Prime
** Anything But Red
** Big Deal
** Fei-Fei/Fei Li and A Panda
** [[Film/DumbAndDumber Red and Redder]]

* ChannelHop: As with ''WesternAnimation/{{Soul}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Luca}}'', it jumped from a planned theatrical release to an exclusive debut on Creator/DisneyPlus due to the rapidly increasing spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant (which had calmed down by the time it premiered). Part of the reason for this move is also suspected to be because of how well ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' did on Creator/DisneyPlus, putting up record streaming numbers, leading to the decision that it might have more of an audience on streaming. The film only received [[https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/03/11/will-turning-red-be-in-theaters/ limited theatrical runs]] in countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, in select theater markets, along with the United Arab Emirates and the Philippines[[note]]which, at the time of writing, don't have a Creator/DisneyPlus rollout[[/note]].

* AcclaimedFlop: Despite strong reviews and audience ratings (95/68 on Rotten Tomatoes), the movie barely cracked $20 million off a budget of 175 million [[note]] This is largely due to the fact the film was released straight to streaming (via Disney+) as opposed to getting a theatrical release, due to the covid-19 pandemic [[/note]]

* AcclaimedFlop: Despite strong reviews and audience ratings (95/68 on Rotten Tomatoes), the movie barely cracked $20 million off a budget of 175 million [note] This is largely due to the fact the film was released straight to streaming (via Disney+) as opposed to getting a theatrical release, due to the covid-19 pandemic [/note].

* AcclaimedFlop: Despite strong reviews and audience ratings (95/68 on Rotten Tomatoes), the movie barely cracked $20 million off a budget of 175 million.

** In Norwegian the movie is simply just called "Rød" (Red).

** In Greece the title is "Everything is in red". Like the Polish title, this is a PunBasedTitle: the Greek word for 'everything' and the word for 'panda' sound exactly the same.

** In Greece the title is "Evrything is in red" like the polish tittle it is a PunBasedTitle the Greek word for everything and the word for panda sound excaly the same.