• To create a lavish display in Henri Bendel's six-story atrium, as well as window decorations, production designer Kristi Zea and supervising art director Paul Kelly had to bring in a full complement of their department to pull an all-nighter with military precision, as they only had enough time between the store closing its doors to the public and reopening them again in the morning to pull off the impossible.  Mission was accomplished, with legions of New Yorkers admiring the results before the cameras began rolling later that day. 

• Filming in New York City gave the filmmakers access to the pool of local actors perhaps better known for their work in the theatre than on film, including Christine Ebersole (Tony Award winner as Best Actress in a Musical for Grey Gardens), LaChanze (Tony Award winner as Best Actress in a Musical for The Color Purple) and Kaitlin Hopkins (star of the upcoming touring company of Dirty Dancing: The Musical). 

• Ed Helms of The Office is seen only on videotape in the movie as self-help money management guru Garrett E. Barton. 

• A bank loan officer is portrayed by Jonathan Tisch, Loews Hotel Chairman and CEO; and in a publishing reception scene filmed in Chicago, another banker is played by Andy Serwer, managing editor of Fortune Magazine. 

• Robert Stanton, who plays ruthless debt collector Derek Smeath, drew upon the only other job he ever had besides actor: A skip tracer for a student loan company, finding people who had defaulted on their debts. Stanton admits that he wasn't good at harassing people, since he would always burst out in laughter instead. 

• Sophie Kinsella was on the Shopaholic set nearly every day as associate producer, consulting and watching her beloved creation of Rebecca Bloomwood come to life. Not so coincidentally considering the massive international sales of the Shopaholic novels, Kinsella was often approached by excited fans on New York, Connecticut and Miami locations as if she were more of a movie star than an author.

Confessions of a Shopaholic will be released on Blu-ray and DVD June 23^rd.

Read comingsoon.net's review of the film here.