Shonen Jump to Feature Dragonball Posters

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Shonen Jump to Feature Dragonball Posters

Source:VIZ Media, LLC

March 14, 2009

VIZ Media has announced that Shonen Jump magazine will feature Dragonball Evolution fold-out posters and photos in its next issue, hitting stands and online on March 31st:

VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, has announced the upcoming release of a special SHONEN JUMP DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION posterzine, based on the upcoming live-action film from 20th Century Fox starring Justin Chatwin as Goku, Emmy Rossum as Bulma, Jamie Chung as Chi Chi, and Chow Yun-Fat as Master Roshi. Dragonball: Evolution opens nationwide on April 8th and is inspired by Akira Toriyama's smash hit DRAGON BALL manga (graphic novel) series, also published domestically by VIZ Media and featured in SHONEN JUMP magazine.

The new SHONEN JUMP DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION posterzine celebrates the upcoming live-action adventure feature film Dragonball: Evolution. Both the movie, directed by James Wong, and the DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION posterzine, published by VIZ Media, bring to life the action and the characters from the eagerly awaited film. Look for the posterzine on newsstands wherever SHONEN JUMP magazine is sold and online at Store.Viz.com beginning March 31st. The SHONEN JUMP DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION posterzine carries an MSRP of $9.99 and is rated T for Teens. The posterzine features 11 full-color posters that fold out to 16" x 22" and depict a variety of vivid action shots and all the film's main characters.

"We're very excited to announce our first live-action Hollywood posterzine product to support the highly anticipated release of the Dragonball: Evolution movie," says Christopher Boily, VIZ Media Sr. Director, Newsstand. "It's great to see our hugely popular DRAGON BALL manga get the full Hollywood treatment for the big screen – and the high quality glossy images will help bring everyone's favorite characters to life and offer a fun way for fans to pay homage to this incredible new movie."

Dragonball: Evolution, the live-action feature film (rated PG) centers on a team of warriors, each of whom possess special abilities. Together, they protect Earth from a force bent on dominating the universe by controlling the mystical objects from which the film takes its name. Dragonball: Evolution features Justin Chatwin as Goku, Emmy Rossum as Bulma, Jamie Chung as Chi Chi, and Chow Yun-Fat as Master Roshi. Dragonball: Evolution the movie is based on the popular Japanese manga series created by Akira Toriyama (also published in North America by VIZ Media).

DRAGON BALL has become a global pop culture and entertainment phenomenon that has generated more than $3 billion in worldwide sales of a vast array of products including manga, DVDs, video games, toys, apparel and other collectibles. Over 1.6 million copies of the manga series have been sold in North America to date, while the animated counterpart remains the most successful domestic anime series ever with over 500 episodes and 17 animated movies broadcast or released on DVD to date. Over 30 DRAGON BALL video game titles are also available for the PS2, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 platforms, and have sold a total of more than 11 million units worldwide.

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Posted by: Boti on March 15, 2009 at 00:33:03

shut up Edmund dragonball looks pretty good

Posted by: Captainhulk on March 15, 2009 at 00:33:31

this will fail, like speed racer, the spirit and Max Payne.

Posted by: SpiderJiba on March 15, 2009 at 00:36:04

blah!

Posted by: God on March 15, 2009 at 00:39:24

Maybe one day, in like 50 years someone will make a proper Dragon Ball movie.

Posted by: abod on March 15, 2009 at 00:49:26

well you cant blame jump
a comic from their magazine is gonna be on the big screen ofcourse they will hype it

Posted by: MagicPrime on March 15, 2009 at 01:10:09

Everyone has to jump on the "suck" bandwagon.

This movie is going to be awesome!

Posted by: yerark perret on March 15, 2009 at 01:30:56

Just so you know Speed racer was a good movie, but I do agree this is going to be afailure like Max Payne.

Posted by: superman on March 15, 2009 at 01:36:43

This movie is going to be just okay but I am not to excited for it. Eitherway, the cartoon will always rock.

Posted by: Eddie on March 15, 2009 at 01:37:00

CaptainHulk is right.....I belive great disaster for this film.

Posted by: Steyin on March 15, 2009 at 01:56:10

Someone please start a tally of people who say this film will rock, then express their disappointment/hate for it after they see it.

Posted by: The Black Ghost on March 15, 2009 at 03:35:58

If the aborted fetus that was 'Watchmen' hadn't already thoroughly ruined my life and caused everyone I know to doubt my advice (I told them it would be awesome...the comic changed my freakin' life), this 'Dragonball' movie would have been the first strike. Now, it's strike two. Let's hope the current bad news concerning 'Iron Man 2' (Scarlett BLOW-hansen and G*DDAMN WHIPLASH?!!) doesn't lead straight into strike 3...But seriously, 'Dragonball: Evolutions' is going to be awful. Who the **** is Tito?!

Posted by: DRAGONBALL WILL ROCK on March 15, 2009 at 04:05:08

This movie is going to be AWESOME!!!!

Posted by: blah on March 15, 2009 at 04:22:36

People are free to like what they want. If you like it great.

The majority of people don't like what they see. I was big into DB, but all I see here is a half assed attempt at taking a proven commodity and trying to milk it. At least they will make enough to recoup their costs, it doesn't look like they put much money into it.

Posted by: Mr. Artist on March 15, 2009 at 05:36:21

Honestly,

DragonBall Evolution doesn't look like a master piece, but it doesn't look horrible either. I usually watch a movie in theatures once every 2 weeks. I saw Pink Panther 2 & I liked it, but I'm not going to buy it on DVD. I saw Watchmen too, I liked it, but I won't be buying it on DVD either.

DragonBall is just like those films or The Spirit for me. Just something fun to do some afternoon or night. It'll probably be a film I go see & am entertained by, but probably won't buy it on DVD. But I won't know till I see it.

Street Fighter looks like a go see & DVD buy though.

Posted by: Frandy-youtube-persephonepictures on March 15, 2009 at 05:42:03

Well I've see the movie in Japan and its horrible I've already reviewed it on youtube and hyping it up is just to lure you to go there since the trailer sucked. don't be fooled.

Posted by: Frandy-youtube-persephonepictures on March 15, 2009 at 05:48:42

none of what the say above is true its not a team of anything its just goku the rest dont really matter to the story bulma is just a dragon radar with guns yamcha doesnt fightt at all roshi is ridiculous piccolo is the worst vilain ever with no backstory or motivations or dialogue.dont want to give spoilers but the trailer is a good sumary of the film oh and the fighting sucks as well

Posted by: Uchiro on March 15, 2009 at 09:45:26

The Black Ghost, you're an effing moron. The Watchmen movie was straight from the novel. The novel just had more conversation and a goofy ending. If you hate the movie its because you dont understand the book and you shouldnt be allowed to leave your watchmen comments on a dragonball thread.

Dragonball will be ok. They could have done better.

Posted by: jt on March 15, 2009 at 10:42:35

saw it this weekend (i live in japan). it was horrible. junior high school students would say it sucked. plot holes. OBVIOUS set up for a sequel. it was like....a big long toy commercial.

Posted by: Garange on March 15, 2009 at 12:16:55

@ jt Hmmmm. Sounds like Transformers. Did they at least leave out unnecessary sex jokes and toilet humor unlike TF?

Posted by: AFTazz06 on March 15, 2009 at 12:33:09

After what happened with Street Fighter's opening weekend (coming in at 8th place), maybe Dragonball should expect the same if not worse. Maybe they already are which is why theyre trying to hype it up this late. Poo folks, theyre fighting a loosing battle.

Posted by: DBZ123 on March 15, 2009 at 14:39:20

however i dont know if its reliable or not though

Posted by: Joshua on March 15, 2009 at 15:24:33

But will they have Tito? That's the only character we care about, eh guys! j/k

Posted by: Naruto on March 15, 2009 at 15:43:06

This movie is going to fail like "Street Fighter: Legend of Chun Li".

BELIEVE IT!!!

Posted by: i am a robot on March 15, 2009 at 16:45:58

im playing the worlds smallest violin for everyone on this message board.

Posted by: M. Bison on March 15, 2009 at 19:34:36

Dragonball: Evolution will probably be as bad or worse than Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. I hope that Ridley Scott or Zack Snyder will direct and re-do Street Fighter's live action film projects and John Woo or Ang Lee can direct Dragonball in a whole new way fitting the cartoon series. Dragonball Z was the original title and Twentieth Century Fox screwed it up pretty bad. The film, will be epic like Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li was but I am about average excited about this movie.

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