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Paramount Makes A Bet on Spanish Feature Animation

Spanish feature animation is having its moment. Late in 2014, Ilion studio’s “Mortadelo y Filemón contra Jimmy el Cachondo” opened head-to-head in Spain against DreamWorks’s “Penguins of Madagascar,” and ended up grossing more than its big-budget American competitor.