Trivia / Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return

• Box Office Bomb: Budget: 70 Million. Earnings: 20.1 Million.
• Content Leak: A high-quality rip of the film sourced from the in-flight entertainment library of United Airlines ^note  This is common practice for aircraft and hotels, as they usually get theatrical releases a month or two before they get released to home media. was illegally leaked onto the Internet a month before the home media release.
• Dear Negative Reader: After the film's financial failure, producer/investor David Yancey released a now infamous rant on Facebook, where he claimed that the poor word of mouth was an act of conspiracy by rival studios to sabotage the film's success.
  The big Hollywood studios do not want this effort to succeed because they don’t want any serious new competition. Maybe we got their attention because they amassed their army of top paid critics who wielded their poison pens in a smear campaign against this wonderful family picture. These seemingly aren’t just reviews of an average film not liked by critics, they are propaganda written expressly to dissuade everyone from seeing the film.
• Development Hell: The release date kept getting pushed back. Possibly so as to capitalize on Oz the Great and Powerful.
• Dueling Movies: Was supposed to be this with Oz the Great and Powerful, but wound up on... The Shelf of Movie Languishment.
• International Coproduction: The film is a co-production between America and India.
• One-Book Author: This movie is the only one that has been produced by Summertime Entertainment, who went under shortly after the film bombed.
• Reality Subtext: In the epilogue, the appraiser that oversees the damage to the Gale home is exposed as a con artist with an extensive list of fake ID's and illegal business practices, who is trying to scam the townsfolk out of their houses and money. After its release, it was revealed that the film's own producers (namely Ryan and Roland Carroll, also known as the Carroll Brothers) had a long history of illegal behaviour, and had convinced hundreds of investors to put their life savings into the project without informing them of the risks.
• Stillborn Franchise: This was planned to be the start of a new Oz franchise, including sequels and a TV show. But none of these plans have been fulfilled, due to factors like the box office earnings falling way short of the budget and the leaks of how the film was funded by scamming investors out of their life savings
• Working Title: The film was originally called Dorothy of Oz during pre-production.

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