Film Articles tend to use the date formats of the country in which the film was produced  of the  production companies are American and only WinNut is non American Yet WingNut was only a minor production company gaining production credit through its use of its Special Effects department    MOSTIES calls explicitly for strong ties A film based on a Belgian comic strip shot in New Zealand cannot make any claim for strong ties to the US The whole spirit of MOSTIES is to prevent contentious editors from writing about Winston Churchill in AmEng because more people speak American English  TIES is entirely inapplicable here and should never be brought up in cases like this