Follow the Leader: In the wake of this series' success, there have been a LOT of similar-themed series of children's novels with elementary-school-age girls as protagonists.
The film
Dawson Casting: 12-year-old (at the time of filming) Jordana Beatty as 8-year-old Judy Moody.
Fake American: Australian actress Jordana Beatty as American-accented Judy Moody.
The Production Curse: Two actors from the Not-Bummer Summer movie died very young: Jackson Odell (Zeke) died in 2018 at the age of 20 from a drug overdose, and Cameron Boyce (Hunter) died a year later, also at the age of 20, from complications due to epilepsy.
