posted 01-30-2016 04:32 AM               

Is it my imagination or is 'Grandpa' based heavily on a certain Apollo Flight Director?

Those of you who watch the trailer, you try telling me that even though this is a very American, very cheesy animated kids film, that it doesn't stir just a little something inside you. It did for me...

posted 01-30-2016 04:43 AM               

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Originally posted by Buel:
...even though this is a very American

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Spain's biggest animation play of 2015 – and one of its two-or-three biggest films of the year – Enrique Gato's "Capture the Flag" will be released by Paramount Pictures on Aug. 28...

"Capture the Flag" is Spain's big toon hope of 2015. That now means something. Telecinco Cinema, [director Enrique] Gato, screnwriter and producer Jordi] Gasull, [producer Edmond] Roch, Lightbox and Telefonica previously teamed on "Tad, the Lost Explorer," listed by a keystone European Audiovisual Observatory report ... as Europe's third highest-grossing independently-financed animation film over 2010-14, after "Paddington" and "Sammy's Adventures."

With Gasull, a self-confessed space-geek, Lightbox set out to replicate nearly bolt for bolt the 40-year-old rocket used by the U.S government to launch a moon-mission, for lack of any modern moon vehicle, the NASA control room, with its surprisingly humdrum all dun green control panels, even the walkway used by astronauts to get to rockets.