| Princess Protection Program | |
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The DVD cover for the film.
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| Directed by | Allison Liddi-Brown |
| Written by | Annie DeYoung (Written by) David Morgasen (Book) |
| Produced by | Douglas Sloan |
| Starring | Selena Gomez Demi Lovato Nicholas Braun Samantha Droke Robert Adamson |
| Cinematography | David A. Makin |
| Edited by | Mark Conte |
| Music by | John Van Tongeren |
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| Distributed by | Disney Channel Family |
Release dates |  May 29, 2009  June 8, 2009 June 13, 2009 June 19, 2009  June 20, 2009  June 26, 2009  June 26, 2009 July 12, 2009  July 25, 2009  September 19, 2009  June 20, 2009  July 26, 2009  October 4, 2009 Dutch Language October 9, 2009 Original Language |
Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | 10 million dollars |
Princess Protection Program (with the last word spelled as Programme within the United Kingdom) is a Disney Channel Original Movie and winner of the Teen Choice Awards 2009 for Choice Summer TV Show, that premiered on Friday, June 26, 2009. The film is directed by Allison Liddi-Brown, filmed in Puerto Rico[1] written by Annie DeYoung[2] and stars Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato. Princess Protection Program was watched by 8.5 million viewers, the fourth highest premiere for a Disney Channel Original Movie, behind Camp Rock, Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie and High School Musical 2. [3]
Princess Rosalinda (Demi Lovato) of the small Spanish-speaking nation of Costa Luna is about to be crowned queen upon reaching maturity. Inexplicably, General Kane, the dictator of a neighboring country (Costa Estrella), is able to massively infiltrate her palace with his agents during her coronation rehearsal, and attempts to assassinate her while effecting a coup d'etat against her regime. Luckily, Joe Mason, an agent of the Princess Protection Program, a secret organization funded by royal families that looks after endangered princesses, is able to whisk her away to safety via helicopter because Gen. Kane’s agents failed to secure her rooftop helipad. They succeeded in capturing her mother, the Queen Sophia, but unfortunately for the general, his coup severely alienated him from the international authorities.
To keep Princess Rosalinda hidden, the Princess Protection Program places her in Mr. Mason’s home in rural Louisiana because she refuses to trust anyone else. There she meets his daughter Carter (Selena Gomez), an insecure girl who works at the local bait shop and dreams of going to the school dance with her crush, Donny. In becoming a normal teenager, Rosalinda takes up the name Rosie and soon becomes popular at school, which Carter must learn to handle. The two become close friends. Carter teaches Rosie to act like a normal American girl, and Rosie shows Carter how to disarm those that scorn them and put them in their place by behaving as a princess.
Meanwhile, General Kane plots to marry Rosalinda’s mother, ostensibly in order to legitimize his rule, but also to draw Rosalinda, the late King’s legitimate heiress, out of hiding so that he can ambiguously marry her, place her on the throne as a puppet, kill her, or kill both her and her mother to wipe out the royal family.
Joe Mason understands that if Rosie knows General Kane is forcing her mother into marriage, then she will want to give herself up in order to placate his need to secure his rule. He also knows that Gen. Kane is likely to simply kill Rosie if he can get his hands on her. Unfortunately, Mr. Mason fails to recognize the threat posed by the popular girls at school, who want Rosie to drop out of the election for Homecoming Queen. After discovering that Rosie is actually a princess, they tell Rosie about Gen. Kane’s plan to marry her mother and try to “encourage” her to leave by destroying her and Carter’s homecoming dresses.
Rosalinda is distraught but agrees to wait to return to Costa Luna until after the dance. To acquire new dresses, Carter calls Rosalinda’s dressmaker, Mr. Eligante, and asks him to send some as part of a plan to save Rosie, the Queen, and Costa Luna. To carry out their plan, Mr. Eligante sends the dresses and pretends to betray Rosalinda’s whereabouts to Gen. Kane in order to lure him to Louisiana (Carter's plan is to use herself as bait to get Gen. Kane to expose himself, knowing that her father "will always be there for [her]," and probably also that there is no way a rogue foreign dictator can enter U.S. airspace and land unnoticed by the authorities).
In the meantime, Rosie and Carter help a bunch of girls by making them look good for the dance, which includes wearing masks to help Carter stand in for Rosie. Gen. Kane flies to Louisiana with only a few men in order to try to abduct Rosie. As part of her plan, Carter poses as Rosie by wearing a dress of the same color that Gen. Kane was informed that Rosie would be wearing, and is taken away to the Gen. Kane's helicopter. But again, Gen. Kane’s agents fail to actually secure the helipad on top of the school. Mr. Mason and his Princess Protection Program agents bribe or sneak their way into Gen. Kane’s helicopter and arrest the General while his men offer no resistance (although the agents promise to turn him over to “the international authorities,” this would be the first time in history that a ruling head of state has been arrested on foreign soil, but it is also the first time a ruling head of state has personally traveled to another country to abduct someone).
At the end, Carter realizes what a jerk Donny is and goes to the dance with Ed, who is her best friend and has had a crush on her for a long time. In the ends, Rosie is crowned Queen of Costa Luna. Carter and Ed cheer, "Long Live Queen Rosie!" and Rosie walks down the aisle with Carter smiling proudly.
| Cast | |||
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| Selena Gomez | Carter Mason | ||
| Demi Lovato | Rosalinda Maria Montoya Fioré/Rosie Gonzalez | ||
| Tom Verica | Joe Mason | ||
| Sully Diaz | Sophia Fioré | ||
| Johnny Ray Rodriguez | General Magnus Kane | ||
| Jamie Chung | Chelsea Barnes | ||
| Nicholas Braun | Ed | ||
| Robert Adamson | Donny | ||
| Samantha Droke | Brooke | ||
| Kevin G. Schmidt | Bull | ||
| Molly Hagan | The Director | ||
| Dale Dickey | Helen | ||
| Ricardo Alvarez | Mr. Elegante | ||
The film introduced two new songs: a duet recorded by Gomez and Lovato called "One And The Same" and a song recorded by Mitchel Musso called "The Girl Can't Help It." Both songs are featured on the Disney compilation album, Disney Channel Playlist, which was released on June 9, 2009.[4] The film also includes Lovato's song "Two Worlds Collide" which was first featured on her debut album Don't Forget. Disney Channel promoted the movie's premiere weekend by offering never-before-seen episodes of their original series' Wizards of Waverly Place and Sonny With a Chance as an online reward if viewers can correctly count the number of times the words "princess," "princesses," and "princesa" are spoken during the movie and enter the correct number, 86, into a section on their website.[5]
The DVD was released on June 30, 2009 in the US.[6] It also features the music video for Gomez & Lovato's duet "One and the Same" and a behind-the-scenes look at the movie. The DVD was released on June 18, 2009 in Germany[7] and four days later in the UK. [8]
| Country | Network(s) | Premiere | Movie Title in Country |
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 France
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Disney Channel France | May 20, 2009 | Princess Protection Program: Mission Rosalinda |
| Germany
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Disney Channel Germany | May 29, 2009 | Prinzessinnen Schutzprogramm |
| Pro 7 | June 14, 2009 | ||
| Super RTL | November 6, 2009 | ||
| Italy
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Disney Channel Italy | June 8, 2009 | Programma Protezione Principesse |
| Italia 1 | September 26, 2009 | ||
| Spain
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Disney Channel Spain | June 13, 2009 | Programa de Protección de Princesas |
| United Kingdom
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June 19, 2009 | Princess Protection Programme | |
| United States
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June 26, 2009 | Princess Protection Program | |
| Portugal
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June 20, 2009 | ||
| Poland
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Program Ochrony Księżniczek | ||
 Middle East
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Disney Channel Latin America | July 26, 2009 | Programa de Protección para Princesas |
| Netherlands
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July 18, 2009 | ||
| Australia
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July 25, 2009 | ||
| Brazil
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July 26, 2009 | Programa de Proteção para Princesas | |
 Japan
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Disney Channel Japan | August 15, 2009 | プリンセス・プロテクション・プログラム |
 Estonia
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August 28, 2009 | ||
 Norway
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Disney Channel Scandinavia | August 28, 2009 | Prosjekt Prinsesse |
 Sweden
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Disney Channel Scandinavia | August 28, 2009 | Projekt Prinsessa |
 Brunei
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Disney Channel Asia | September 6, 2009 | |
 Cambodia
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 Hong Kong
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 Indonesia
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 Laos
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 Malaysia
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 Philippines
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 Singapore
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 South Korea
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 Thailand
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 Vietnam
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Kế hoạch bảo vệ công chúa | ||
 Taiwan
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Disney Channel Taiwan | September 12, 2009 | 公主保衛戰 |
| Romania
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Disney Channel Romania | September 19, 2009 | Programul de Protecţie al Prinţeselor |
 India
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Disney Channel India | November 20,2009 | Princess Protection Programme |
