History Trivia / NormOfTheNorth

* BoxOfficeBomb: Grossed only $9 million on its opening weekend against a $18 million budget. Its final gross was $17 million domestic and $27.4 million worldwide. Despite that, the film made enough money on video that a sequel is in the works.

* StillbornFranchise: Two DirectToVideo sequels were announced prior to this film hitting theaters, but after the movie got ruthlessly mauled by a [[FourIsDeath foursome]] of critics, audiences, the box office, and Creator/DreamWorksAnimation's ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'', it now has a great chance of sending those DTV sequels out on an ice float.
** Amusingly, a direct-to-video sequel which stitches together the two announced sequels wound up being leaked online ''by the film's producers.'' A pre-release screener Vimeo website which had the full movie albeit with watermarks wound up being accidentally accessible to the public for a good period of time, [[https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1588917 which many]] [[https://twitter.com/SebAnimation1/status/942246240485564416 took to]] [[http://boards.4chan.org/co/thread/97530778/norm-of-the-north-2-gets-leaked-on-the-studios notice]]. The website was later taken down, but not quickly enough to prevent mirrors of the video popping up on some torrent and cloud websites.
** Averted in January 2018, where [[http://variety.com/2018/film/asia/lionsgate-norm-of-the-north-headed-to-sequel-1202672170/ production on the first sequel had begun]].

** This was originally intended to be a DirectToDVD feature, and the low-quality animation shows it all!

* AllStarCast: The movie has a good mix of celebrities like Creator/RobSchneider, Creator/HeatherGraham, Creator/BillNighy, and Loretta Devine, and plenty of acclaimed voice actors like Creator/MikeyKelly, Creator/CandiMilo, Creator/KateHiggins, Creator/CharlieAdler (who's also one of the movie's voice directors), and more.

* AllStarCast: The movie has a good mix of celebrities like Creator/RobSchneider, Creator/HeatherGraham, Creator/BillNighy, and Creator/LorettaDevine, and plenty of acclaimed voice actors like Creator/MikeyKelly, Creator/CandiMilo, Creator/KateHiggins, Creator/CharlieAdler (who's also one of the movie's voice directors), and more.

* AllStarCast: The movie has a good mix of celebrities like Rob Schneider, Heather Graham, Bill Nighy, and Loretta Devine, and plenty of acclaimed voice actors like Mikey Kelly, Candi Milo, Kate Higgins, Charlie Adler (who's also one of the movie's voice directors), and more.
* BillingDisplacement: In the UK posters, James Corden is listed third, before Bill Nighy, despite playing a minor character who doesn't even have the same voice in the US dub.

** This was originally intended to be a direct-to-DVD feature, and the low-quality animation shows it all!

* TheWikiRule: [[http://norm-of-the-north.wikia.com/wiki/Norm_of_the_North_Wikia The Norm of the North Wiki]].

** Originally, the plot was originally meant to be more coherent in structure. Norm would have just ditched his community, when ice caps mysteriously begin to disappear, in order to live a comfy lifestyle in an abandoned research station. However, an unknown force would have cause Norm to wound up in New York City, rather than him deciding just to go there, where he would have been discovered by Mr. Greene, who pawns him into becoming their mascot. Norm would have discovered later that Mr. Greene is the one responsible for destroying the Arctic, which would have led to a decision whether he should save the Arctic, or remain the cozy lifestyle he had once demand for. However, script rewrites would allow for the story to drastically change into the bizarre film that it is today.

* TheDanza: Janet Varney as Janet.

* TheOtherDarrin: Thanks to the below-mentioned leak. The first sequel's credits confirms that the returning characters from the first film will be voiced by none other than actors from Creator/TheOceanGroup.

* TheOtherDarrin: Thanks to the below-mentioned leak. The first sequel's credits confirms that the returning cast from the first film will be replaced by none other than actors from Creator/TheOceanGroup.

* AllStarCast: The movie has a good mix of celebrities like Rob Schneider, Heather Graham, Bill Nighy, and Loretta Devine, and plenty of acclaimed voice actors like Mikey Kelly, Candi Milo, Kate Higgins, Charlie Adler (who's also the movie's voice director), and more.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Grossed only $9 million on its opening weekend against a $18 million budget. Its final gross was $17 million domestic and $27.4 million worldwide.

** Originally, the plot was originally meant to be more coherent in structure. Norm would have just ditched his community, when ice caps mysteriously begin to disappear, in order to live a comfy lifestyle in an abandoned research station. However, an unknown force would have cause Norm to wound up in New York City, rather than him deciding just to go there, where he would have been discovered by Mr. Greene, who pawns him into becoming their mascot. Norm would have discovered later that Mr. Greene is the one responsible for destroying the Arctic, which would have led to a decision whether he should save the Arctic, or remain the cozy lifestyle he had once demand for. However, script rewrites would allow for the story to drastically change into the bizarre film that it is today.

** Originally, the plot was originally meant to be more coherent in structure. Norm would have just ditched his community, when ice caps mysteriously begin to disappear, in order to live a comfy lifestyle in an abandoned research station. However, an unknown force would have cause Norm to wound up in New York City, rather than him deciding just to go there, where he would have been discovered by Mr. Greene, who pawns him into becoming their mascot. Norm would have discovered later that Mr. Greene is the one responsible for destroying the Arctic, which would have led to a decision whether he should save the Arctic, or remain the cozy lifestyle he had once demand for. However, script rewrites would allow for the story to drastically change into bizarre film that is today.

* StillbornFranchise: Two DirectToVideo sequels were announced prior to this film hitting theaters, but after the movie got ruthlessly mauled by a [[FourIsDeath foursome]] of critics, audiences, the box office, and Creator/DreamWorksAnimation's ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'', it now has a great chance of sending those DTV sequels out on an ice floe.

* MoneyDearBoy: If this film (along with ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheNutJob'') proves anything, it's that Creator/GabrielIglesias is willing to do anything to make a quick paycheck.

** Originally, the plot was originally meant to be more coherent in structure. Norm would have just ditched his community, when ice caps mysteriously begin to disappear, in order to live a comfy lifestyle in an abandoned research station. However, an unknown force would have cause Norm to wound up in New York City, rather than him deciding just to go there, where he would have been discovered by Mr. Greene, who pawns him into becoming their mascot. Norm would have discovered later that Mr. Greene is the one responsible for destroying the Arctic, which would have led to a decision whether he should save the Arctic, or remain the cozy lifestyle he had once demand for. However, script rewrites would allow for the story to drastically change into bizarre that is today.

** Back when it was first announced, it was going to be made by Creator/CrestAnimationProductions, the same studio as ''WesternAnimation/AlphaAndOmega''.

* NoBudget: The film was made on a pretty low budget of $18 million dollars.

** Back when it was first announced, it was going to be made by Crest Animation, the same studio as ''WesternAnimation/AlphaAndOmega''.

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* CreatorKiller: This is the first film Trevor Wall directed, and its [[JustForPun absolute zero icy reception]] has a strong chance of making it his only directing job outside of television.

* DuelingMovies: With Creator/DreamWorksAnimation's ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' (which has ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' alumni Creator/JKSimmons in it; ''Norm of the North'' actually has the voice of Korra herself, Janet Varney, in a cameo role). As far as quality and gross go, DWA '''[[CurbStompBattle stomped]]''' ''Norm of the North'' into a pancake... [[ForegoneConclusion then again, it was bound to happen]].

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The movie takes place in a modern New York City and has a '''LOT''' of references to current culture. One of the selling points was the fact that Norm is a polar bear that can twerk. Many critics and viewers have called it the worst case of WereStillRelevantDammit since ''Film/Annie2014''.

** This was originally intended to be a direct-to-DVD feature, and it ''shows'' through the low quality animation.
** Back when it was first announced, it was going to be made by Crest Animation, the same studio as ''WesternAnimation/AlphaAndOmega''.

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* BoxOfficeBomb: Grossed only $9 million on its opening weekend against a $18 million budget. Its final gross was $16.5 million domestic and $22.6 million worldwide.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The movie takes place in a modern New York City and has a '''LOT''' of references to current culture. One of the selling points was the fact that Norm is a polar bear that can twerk.

* MoneyDearBoy: If this film (along with WesternAnimation/{{Planes}} and WesternAnimation/TheNutJob) proves anything, it's that Creator/GabrielIglesias is willing to do anything to make a quick paycheck (seriously, the dude needs more WesternAnimation/BookOfLife's in his profile).