Movieland contacted Christina Inman, the manager of Fox in Mexico, and received a surprising response regarding the supposed teaser posters.

More controversy for the posters: Christina Inman said that they are not official

I’ve been in touch again with Christina Inman (manager of the Fox in Mexico) and I said: that posters are not official and they do not know where they have left.

But the question is why Fox has sent withdraw these posters? … or perhaps unwilling to have confusion about it?.

Regarding the alleged teaser trailer I am also with what they told me a few weeks ago Christina Inman, the start of the promotion of Dragonball could begin until June or July … but well, time will tell who is right.

We still think they’re real though due to the overwhelming evidence provided by Sour Mikan and Craigdbfan below.

I can’t believe it… at least in Japan, a lot of people say they saw this poster, and I don’t think they are lying.

example, this blogger took several poster photos at the theater and post on his blog.
http://ameblo.jp/yaszo83/entry-10092153896.html

Teaser poster

what do you think of this ?

And even more teaser poster photos have surfaced thanks to youkaisama:

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Slashfilm and Super Hero Hype were both told by Fox to remove the photos. So, there you have it, they were real after all. We have removed the photos from our website.

There is also a rumor floating around from Sour Mikan that a teaser trailer has already premiered in Japan. Keep in mind we have received dozens of fake rumors over the past few months about trailers, so take this with a grain of salt.

I heard from some people that the teaser trailer has already shown at a theater, One of them said it can be seen at the movie Lions for Lambs (Japanese title: Ooinaru Inbou) and unfortunately no characters in it, but only seven dragonballs appear against the space background and DRAGONBALL logo and March 2009 word appear. I expect FOX will publish it on the web soon.

Regardless, it looks like May will be a busy month for news.

Eriko Tamura (Mai) updated her blog today. The post was dated March 23rd, but she states she was unable to post it until today. Thanks to Sour Mikan from IMDB for the translation, which I have edited.

The filming [has] wrapped! Finally..finally !!! The last shoot was the scene [with] James [Marsters] and I, it took till night, and the moment we finished, Paul shouted ”Eriko’s wrapped!” [and] I was filled with emotion. Jim* said happily, ”We did it!!” staring at my eyes, we hugged one another and shared our joy. Rod stood by us, at the moment, I felt we could relate to one another without words. After talking [a few words with Tim], there [was] a photo session. Crew and Mexican workers took a lot of photos with us. [When it] ended, I came back to the trailer with my friends coming from LA. I signed my autograph to various [people], and we got into a bought car, [and] we left the set.

After we came back to the hotel, my friends and I went to Jim’s home, and there happened to be Rob, who is the cinematographer, and Paul and Jim. They partied with the [men], [and] we joined them and drank a little, and we talked genuinely about the past days [in] Durango and we had a very [good] time.

[When we] came back to the hotel again, I packed up in a hurry. Baggage for two months [is so] much but I didn’t [have] time to rest, soon I got into a bought car and we went to the Durango airport and came back with Jim and Rod [in] the same airplane.

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Not that I ever doubted it, but James Marsters recently confirmed that Ki (energy blasts) would be used in the movie.

“PS I Love You - thinks he was boring. He went along planning to be a good boy, and it ended up boring. Has decided now he’s actually hired to be an arsehole. To make his character interesting. So with this new attitude on, he got hired to do Dragonball Z.

They started off with this total age makeup for his character, really old and decrepit and stuff. Then they decided that wouldn’t be pretty enough to sell. But JM thought it was essential to his character. It was his character’s whole motivation. He got locked up for ages, he got old, when he got out and saw himself for the first time he decided to get even. So he went to the makeup artist with a picture of the original old guy test makeup and told him to make it like that. Makeup artist said the producers were pretty sure, but JM said if the producers cared they’d be there. They weren’t even in the same country. So.

He has a lot of stunt work in the new film. When asked what the difference was between TV and film he said for TV he had a stuntman. So for the film he’s getting thrown off things and blown up and kicked in the face. One time his character is getting shot at by another character, power blasts, and he ducks and it blows up the rock behind him. So they got set up to blow it up and JM asked, said the quicker he stands up the cooler it will be. So he ducks, they blow it up, he stands up right away when there’s still chunks flying. The camera people, taken somewhat by surprise, leap to do their jobs. One person gets hit by something, and JM still feels guilty about that. (Be asks who was running stunts and how is it possible an actor can mess up the timing/safety issues?) (… what country were they filming in?) But JM’s logic is his character isn’t bothered by some rock blowing up. He only has to dodge his enemies’ blasts. Rock isn’t a problem for the supervillain.”

Thanks to craigdbfan for the source.

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Slashfilm has posted the American version of the Japanese poster we posted earlier.

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Dragonball Le Film found a teaser poster on a Japanese blog. It could be fake, but it seems very real. Please note the March release date printed on the poster is for Japan only, as previously reported.

According to a IMDB member, Sour Mikan, here what is written:
“Legend becomes reality
March 2009
Dragonball
www.dragonball-movie.jp
The link leads automatically to the official Fox Japan Website. Here we can see that the release in Japan is March 2009!

El Siglo de Durango posted a small article on the money Durango gained from Dragonball. They also stated that the production team was interested in two other movies to be filmed in Durango.

Spills

The last film that was made on an entity left a spilled over 15 million for the hotel industry, and the last three months has been the best period in history in the entity on hotel occupancy, he said.

For three months was maintained between 80 to 90 percent and nearly 30 days was a record of 100 percent in six hotels of between four and five stars, ie were 24 thousand quarts-night.

This was only in occupation, not counting the casting which was conducted for the recruitment of thousand people who participated as extras.

Expected

He said it must seize this kind of footage because Durango is a place in film history, at this point would be the best hook for the promotion coupled with the same directors who contemplate the possibility of returning to the entity.

He noted that they were very interested in continuing a second and third stages of filming.

Nothing too new, but interesting nonetheless.

The Hamilton Advertiser recently previewed the Dragonball movie, and despite all the negativity around the movie at the moment, they seem to be fairly optimistic about it.

Contrary to popular belief that Dragonball Z and everything that goes with it isn’t an important too anime is quite frankly rubbish.

Without it there would be no Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Full Metal Alchemist or Naruto. And it could be said that without it there may have been no Matrix or various other anime-influenced Hollywood blockbusters.

The Dragonball franchise was an enormous factor in popularising anime in the west and is now set to get its own movie, aptly named Dragonball.

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Goku’s actual origin is almost identical to Superman’s. Both are sent to Earth in a space pod as babies, both of their home planets are about to explode at this time and both have incredible, god-like powers. But other than that, both couldn’t be further apart.

Justin Chatwin stars as Goku and if anything is to be right about this movie, he’ll have to play him as Sean Schemmel played him in the animated series- funny, hungry, absent minded and underdog hero.

James Wong (Final Destination, The One, The X-Files) heads up the project as Director James Marsters, formerly of Buffy fame as Spike, is playing Piccolo and Chow Yun-Fat is playing Master Roshi, Goku’s teacher.

While the initial reception from fans has been one of dismay and disgust, if done right, Dragonball could well be the long awaited breath of fresh air the franchise is waiting for.

Read the full article here. Thanks to craigdbfan for informing me.

Also, as a reminder, James Marsters will be appearing at “The Rift” in London tomorrow. SFX may ask him your questions then.

Chow Yun-Fat’s dialect coach Gregory Charles talks about his work with Chow in the movie.

My work involved working with Chow Yun-Fat to help him get his pronunciation as clear and intelligible as possible. We did most of the ground work in Hong Kong and in Durango before filming began which was fortunate, because during filming, there was little time or energy left to do any extra work revision. During filming, my work required me to listen very carefully with my headphones to everything he said, making sure he did not drop any words and helping him to improve his pronunciation when necessary.

Mr. Chow is no slacker. By the time we began filming, his pronunciation was excellent dialog, not perfect but excellent none-the-less. Even so, work on my location was not easy. It required intense concentration to listen to every syllable of his dialog, note the areas that needed improvement, analyse areas which were within his immediate grasp or absolutely needed improvement and use the most efficient method possible to communicate the needed changes to him, all within seconds of completion of each shot. It was challenging and tiring but we did a pretty good job.

Mr. Chow’s work ethics are admirable. His dedication to his work is truly remarkable.

Within hours of confirmation of his role in the movie, he began examining and developing his character, and he spent considerable time working on his dialog. From confirmation of his role until weeks into filming, he barely slept as he considered all of the options for his character, an experience I shared last year when preparing for “They’re Playing Our Song.” He worked so hard and slept so little that he became ill just a couple of weeks into filming. But even sickness barely slowed him down. He rested for two days and went straight back to work, getting daily antibiotic injections until he was fully recovered, and regular vitamin supplement injections until filming was complete.

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At least we know James Marsters isn’t the only one giving 110%.