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#001

When Andi (Emma Roberts) is looking for a dress for the party, she tells her brother Bruce (Jake T. Austin) if he could create her a dress, "then you'd really be a wizard". Jake plays a wizard in the Disney TV series "Wizards of Waverly Place" (2007).
#002

At the nearly end of the movie when the "twin dogs" appear, Andi tells the people that they're names are Sebastian and Viola, after characters in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
#003

The novel upon which this movie is based was first published in 1971.
#004

Nearly 70 dogs were used for the making of this motion picture, many of which were actually rescued from the pound. Several of them were adopted by crew members after filming wrapped.
#005

Many different types of dogs can be seen in the film: Lenny is a Bullmastiff, Georgia is a Boston Terrier, Cooper is a English Bulldog, Shep is a Border Collie, Romeo is a Chinese Crested Dog, Juliet is a Poodle and Henry is a Beauceron.
#006

Most dogs were trained for two to three months, while the main dogs' training lasted nearly sixteen weeks.
#007

The actors found the film particularly challenging to shoot due to the dog trainers constantly jumping, whistling and shouting instructions to the dogs just outside the frame.
#008

Special effects coordinator Michael Lantieri found the making of the ball-throwing machine particularly challenging due to the many settings that had to be calculated and adjusted, such as the ball's weight, the synchronization between the hand's movement and the moment when the ball is thrown, etc...
#009

It took a long time to teach the dogs to use the feeding machine. Indeed, the first dog in line had to learn not to throw himself onto the fifty bowls of food passing in front of him, and so on.
#010

Thor Freudenthal's feature directing debut. He was previously a frequent collaborator of Rob Minkoff.
#011

Nearly eighty boys auditioned for the role of Bruce before Jake T. Austin was chosen.
#012

The first Nickelodeon film to not be co-produced with Paramount Pictures or one of its divisions. The film is instead co-produced with Paramount's partner DreamWorks.
#013

Several dog pairs are named after characters from other sources: Sebastian and Viola from Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", Georgia (George) and Lenny from Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men", and Romeo and Juliet from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet".