Budget Revealed? And More Sequel Talk
A newspaper in Chile ran an article on Dragonball: Evolution, and in it the budget of the movie was unveiled. According to the paper, the production budget was only 45 million, much less than the previous $100 million estimates. What this means is the film has already made about half its budget back in Asia alone.
There’s really no doubt now that the film will be profitable, and so sequels are a definite possibility. IGN spoke with Justin Chatwin (Goku) and James Marsters (Piccolo) who were incredibly enthusiastic about the idea… Marsters even wants 6 more films!
He went on: “All I know is I’ve been signed to three movies, but I would like to make five — seven of them. You could just pretty much paint by numbers using the wealth of source material to easily get the seven films. There’s that much there.”
Meanwhile, Chatwin is also obviously thinking about Dragonball as a series of movies, with the actor seeing Evolution as an introduction piece to the wider universe.
He said: “There’s a whole generation of kids waiting to be introduced to Dragonball, so this first movie is really important for that. I mean the main plot is the battle between Piccolo and Goku, but this first film still serves to introduce the characters and where they’re from and what they’re deals are. And so to cover that ground really takes up most of the first movie.”He goes on: “I know what they have in store for the second one and it’s really cool! It’s more in the vein of the Dragonball saga… it goes into other places, there’s other characters, other fighters and there’s a lot of action that is just really awesome.
“It actually goes more into Dragon Ball Z land and it’s just really exciting. It goes into the whole legend of Dragonball. I cant really say more than that, but it made me think this is a cool franchise to be a part off because there’s so much we haven’t shown yet.”
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the only thing it has from diferent movies is the high school thing, and that’s with transformers, spiderman, and about a billion more, soo if you wanna complain about one, you gotta complain about them all an what do you mean rotten body?
wo battle angel too? cool they’e doing cowboy bebop robotech umm and more <.< can’t think of tehm right now
everybody go see Dragon Ball Kai at DBLatino.com in HQ, first episode subtitle,
suscribe to dbkai2009 in youtube
I have looked at numerous theaters in my home town and saw that the running time is at 100 minutes. Wasn’t it at 85 before or is it longer in the U.S.?
@b-: Oh, I get it. Hmm… It IS weird how they made such a huge mistake.
wo guys check this out ._. http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd128/wave122479/p-dbzsdxdbc03-001_4.jpg
@b-: WHAT, A LIVE ACTION COWBOY BEBOP MOVIE!!, were the hell did you hear that.
heres my oppinion they should have gone all little longer and use a little more money
sequals should be
db2-vegeta
db3-frieza
db4-mecha frieza (trunks) they could end it with trunks giving the prophecy about the adroids
db5-androids n cell
db6-babidi (his ship) they could unleash buu at the very end
db7-buu
that would b awsome
:lol:
yh carl135, there is gonna be 1, with keanu reaves as spike apparently, google it
yh carl135, there is gonna be 1, with keanu reaves as spike apparently, google it, yep
woohoooo. I get to see the movie a day early, April 7th
. My friend works in the cinema and he is getting me into the pre-screening the day before it releases… 
I think a sequel is very do-able. Lets not forget. Dragonball is just the tip of the iceberg that is dragonballz. The stories and characters can only get better. That is unless FOX or the director decide to butcher all that. I guees what Im trying to say is that we’ll just have to be patient to see how this all turns out. If its a great movie. tell your friends how good it was, and get them to go see it, find a way to get word to Fox and tell them what we liked and didnt like about the movie and make constructive critocisms. The only way we’ll see sequels of DBZ is by taking action. But if the movie sucks hardcore, do the exact opposite and castrate the director.
6 days, and stil no news
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You would think as the movie gets closer to hiting theatres, there would be more news, but I gues not
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5 days baby!!! woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
:mrgreen:
@contrazoom: then what company is doing ,I REALLY HOPE FOX ISNT DOING IT, i have already bitched enough about dbe, i do not need to be torchered with a cowboy bebop movie.
7 movies like this? yea right
@F I sent it to you don’t know if you recived if u did plz tell me how like out of 5 stars.
@Haters To all the haters guys atleast Wong had the gut’s to make one he is a wonderful director I saw the bootleg its freaking awsome cant wait for the full one p.s. DBE RULES
with the shitty marketing campaign fox has done and with only 2500 cinema release, i will be surprised that dragonball will make 30million plus on its opening wkd in the US
now u guys can find out the next episode of dragonball kai
http://dbkai.net/
[quote]
Dragonball Evolution gets a huge push in 27 markets next weekend when it should take major strides towards the $50m mark, This weekend the fantasy adventure grossed $2.4m from 2,400 in 12 for $25.3m and debuted in seventh place in France on $1.2m from 374. After four weekends it has amassed $8.4m and $8.3m in Japan and China, respectively.[/quote]
http://www.screendaily.com/ScreenDailyArticle.aspx?intStoryID=43918&Category=
Please, I want one last peiece of news!
BIG NEWS FROM DRAGONBALL MOVIE BLOG – ENJOY
Looks like Fox is getting ready for another Dragonball film. The studio, pleased with the films earnings in Asia, has decided to fast track the sequel for a 2010 release, at least according to Variety:
“20th Century Fox is fast tracking the sequel to it’s as yet seen hit “Dragonball Evolutionâ€. The film, which has earned a collective $21M in 8 Asian markets over the last three weeks; reportedly half its initial budget, opens worldwide on April 10th.
Reborn, the illusive subtitle to the sequel, is based on the popular manga turned animated series created by Akira Toriyama. James Wong is set to direct from a script he penned. Stephen Chow is once again set to produce and the entire cast, including Justin Chatwin as the films iconic hero, and Chow Yun-Fat as his mentor, are set to return.
The studio is also looking to expand that roster and are currently courting Twilight star Robert Pattinson to play the films villain. The film is expected to begin principle photography in Montreal this July, with a tentitive release date of Spring 2010.
OOOPS – SORRY, TURNS OUT TO BE AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE BY VARIETY. SORRY, DIDN’T SEE THAT EARLIER. PLEASE DISCARD.
@mike
not bad, now we need russias numbers and morroco and algeria and another country that I don’t remember
@Stevie B:
same hear man i dont care what haters or critics say ( I HATE CRITICS BTW) im going to like this movie and enjoy it
oh yeah the point about the oozaru toy(704) it looks alot like the oozaru in the movie.
Still going to see it this Friday in hopes that the sequel will be better. Also Anyone looking to watch the new Dragonball Kai with english subs you can do so here:
http://www.animetake.com/dragon-ball-kai-episode-1/
I have faith in the series, and I’m proud that they plan to expand and tell the story of Dragon Ball. Fans have to know, that we’re looking at a different DBZ. And I prefer something new, can’t wait to watch it this Friday when it releases.
what is dragonball kai?
Dragonball Kai is Dragonball Z redone in HD without the fillers. It started to air in Japan on Sat 4 Apr 09. New episodes every week. If you want more info check
http://www.dblegends.com
Correction aired 5 Apr 09. Sorry
Also if you wat more info you can visit :
http://dbkai.net/
imma go watch it saturday…
FAST AND FURIOUS MADE 100MILL IN THREE DAYS WOW
i am going to watch this movie on april 10th when it is first released on the us so they can make profit from me ftw!!! and i will be watching too
:D
That is late news they are doing Ghost in the shell movie which will be directed and written by steven spilbergh, Akira movie which will be played by Leonardo Dicaprio, Ninja Scroll Movie, Robotech which will be starred by Tobey Mcquire, and Cowboy Beebop starred by Keanu Reeves and I can smell fail from all of them except Ghost in the shell.
the movie is officially 1 hour and 40 min
@mrendy : is that right ??
I said they should let the guy from Twilight play Vegeta !! I was right !!
@stephen
Source or Link please ^^
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=54008
new interview
im posting news since adam isnt lol
That interview isn’t embeddable, so I can’t post it.
Dragonball 2:Reborn appears to be in developmente
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1385515/
MAN!!!!!!!!!!!! Looks like Slovenia wont get Dragonball Evolution
guess Ill have to wait for the DVDrip or spmething…….
Jamie Chung is HOT
Slovenia gets it June 11th…Like Germany
Strange that this movie will come in june in some places cause the DVD premiere comes april 30 in russia
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1098327/releaseinfo
Slovakia get it in july 30th…like no one…F**K!
French box office only 1.2 million since the first april
374 screen
http://www.elbakin.net/fantasy/news/9743-Dragon-Ball-Evolution-ne-decolle-pas
Hi, Guys Im, Finally Seeing Dragonball Evoulution on Friday, April 10th… Awesome!
5 DAYS BABY whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!