I use the term “new” loosely since so far we’ve had 3 of these, but enjoy another Chi-Chi (Jamie Chung) versus Mai (Eriko Tamura) tournament video, courtesy of Jenova Anime.
Jenova Anime has once again provided more photos from the set of Dragonball. This time, a closer look at the Fulum assassins. Click to enlarge.
Screen Daily reports footage of the Dragonball movie was shown at Cinema Expo 2008. Christina Inman of Fox said a trailer in the summer would be possible, and this only further supports that claim.
Delegates were also shown footage/trailers/teasers for thriller Mirrors (starring Kiefer Sutherland), French box-office hit Taken (starring Liam Neeson), Mark Wahlberg’s new film Max Payne, The X-Files: I Want To Believe, Dragonball, romantic comedy Bride Wars (starring Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway), Night At The Museum 2, and unseen footage of Tom Cruise Second World War drama Valkyrie.
UPDATE: Christina Inman told dragonballlive there would be no teaser trailer until November or December. Looks like she can’t make up her mind…
UPDATE 2: Film1 confirms the teaser trailer was shown at the expo.
It’s definitely true that they’ve shown a teaser of Dragonball, but it’s just a couple of short scenes. Because of the enormous amounts of trailers, teasers, clips and films shown at the Expo, I can’t remember exactly what I saw, but I remember that it was cool!
A new Dragonball poster has popped up online from Cinema Expo 2008 in Amsterdam. It features our first teasing glimpse of Piccolo at the top.
Dragonball Movie Blog reader Tallai sent in a set report from the Mexico City shoot which lasted from November to December before moving to Durango in January. Because there are a few contradictions in this report, we are classifying it as a rumor.
There were vaious scenes in the highschool during about the first half of the story. They had 4 groups of differnt extras. The 4 groups were, Outside the school, Inside the school, Goku’s class room, and the hall ways. There were about a good 20 people in each shot. The scene he was in was the outside of the school. This was the first shot they show of the school, Goku was walking in down the street to get to school. He crossed the road, and got to the school. The first few promotional pics were for that scene. How ever there was speculation going around that there was a car crash… there was no car crash in that scene. Either they added it in later I dont no but that was the scene.
Working with the crew was amazing, even though I was only there for 2 weeks I got to meet Justin Chatwin. He was soo comitted to getting Goku right. He, in my opinion, took this movie more seriously then anyone else. James wong was a great director, he just basiclly told us what to do and we all just went and did that scene. I was surprised that for 1 of the scenes there were quite a few blocking mistakes but he decided that the scene was all right. It felt a bit rushed through out those 2 days because we managed to cram in almost 20 scenes in 1 day. Everyone was in a constant rush. I didnt get too meet any other cast member personally other than Justin. I did see James Marsters but I didnt see Emmy any where. James Masters was another one of the guys who made sure he gave 100 %. I cant say much about the sets because it would be breaking my agreement. But I can say that the sets that I saw were astonishing. It felt like these sets took years to make, but in fact it only took a few months. Everything felt like it was in the right place at the right time. The extras were also used as extras in the tournament. We were the audience. They just basically told us that go crazy. Yell as loud as you can!
The promoting of the film wont start for a while. We were told that about late October to mid November we can see a teaser trailer, but hopefully it will come out before. This movie has alot of surprises that no one would ever expect. Working in James Wong’s adaptaion of Dragonball was amazing, and I cant wait to see this movie when it comes out next April.
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Jenova Anime has uploaded another video from the tournament in which Chi-Chi (Jamie Chung) fights Mai (Eriko Tamura). They were also kind enough to provide DBtheMovie with another leaked video.
Dragonball Movie Blog reader Nick sent in a scan from the American publication Shonen Jump. The images were all previously released and it doesn’t reveal much of anything, but hey! it’s promotion.
We have received more information regarding the manga-fied set visit released in the July issue of Jump Square magazine.
First, Anime News Network revealed the author of the manga.
Akiba ZaijÅ« is Jump Square’s monthly column drawn by manga artist Daisuke Kadokuni. Kadokuni usually profiles a different aspect of Tokyo’s Akihabara Otaku shopping district every month, but took a press tour of Dragonball movie’s production for his July issue installment.
And secondly, my source in Japan translated the magazine article that came along with the images.
The manga’s author and his company (magazine editor) went to the hotel Gobernador to stay, and there was a cowboy-like man who put on a cowboy hat and shouted “Dragonball ! ” like that. The author didn’t know who he was.
The next day, they went to the movie set (formerly a jeans factory) by bus. There were many crew constructing the set, making tiles for the floor using cement. Producer Tim Van Rellim greeted them and introduced the set. They found Bluma’s three-wheeler bike.
This was very excellent and [they actually saw it] driving. Then they went to the Dojo set. There were burn marks on the wall, and there were weapons (swords etc.) made of metal, and they were very heavy. They then went outside, and saw the dragonball sphere, dragon radar and the power pole. When the author pushed the button of the dragon radar it was almost broken by him.
Next they went to Piccolo’s room. [It was] a very futuristic feeling. Tim [Van Rellim] sat down in the chair, and he said that Piccolo would sit here and using his powers he would create monsters.
They left the set, went to the Durango governor’s house for the banquet party, and there was the cowboy man again. The author asked his company, “That cowboy man is the same man we met at the hotel, does he do an acrobatic show riding the horses?” (there were horses). His company said “What are you talking about? is that a Mexican joke? He is Justin Chatwin, he plays Goku.” He was surprised. He didn’t think he stayed at the same hotel. Then he remembered that he saw a man that resembled James Marsters, was it him? But he didn’t ask.
Next day he and his company wore Goku’s cosplay Gi brought from Japan and went to the set again. When they were walking in the set, suddenly a tall man appeared, he was Chow Yun-Fat. He said “How are you? Kawaii nee(You are pretty)” and shaked hands with him. He was very impressed. He was very happy to go to Mexico and see Chow Yun-fat. He also saw Emmy Rossum too. She said “Daisuki” (I love you) and he freezed with joy.
And finally, Justin Chatwin wearing Goku’s Gi appeared with the wind. It was a Hollywood version cosplay so to speak, but its perfection level was far more high than a normal cosplayers. He was the real Goku. The next issue they will interview him and reveal the outfit.
He also informed us that Eddie Yang (Ironman, Narnia 2, Batman) from Ironhead Studios (X-Men 2, Hellboy 2) was involved in the movie as a character designer.
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