Dragonball at Comic-Con?
According to TheHollywoodNews.com, Fox will be promoting Dragonball later this week at Comic-Con in San Diego.
I’ve got to admit, I know nothing about this movie, except the fact that Fox are taking it to Comic Con later this week, so expect some more promo stuff to pop up online later.
/Film also seems convinced that Fox will be promoting Dragonball later this week as well.
I’m sure Fox will launch some new marketing materials later this week at Comic Con.
If anyone is attending Comic-Con, feel free to send us anything you may find. Also, a new scan from V-Jump has been added to the gallery. All of the images were previously released.
UPDATE: Unfortunately it would seem Dragonball will not be at Comic-Con, however Wolverine will be.
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July 21st, 2008 at 3:26 pm
i hope they finally reveal some footage or SOMETHING from the movie instead of another poster
July 21st, 2008 at 3:27 pm
First comment thanks.Hopefully we’ll get some footage at comic-con.But I saw the dark knight too day I must say it was the best film of the year.Heath Ledger deserves an oscar and much more.Go see it.It was the best comic book film thus far
July 21st, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Who knows? I thought they wouldn’t be attending comic-con at all.
July 21st, 2008 at 3:27 pm
So is anyone here going to attend Comic-Con?
July 21st, 2008 at 3:31 pm
sweet maybe we will see a teaser soon, or even the grande unveiling on lord piccolo, it will be intresting to see.
i had a nightmare about the movie last night, piccolo was red and looked like satan and the make-up was so bad it looked like a halloween mask with red face paint and gokus transformation was a spiky green lego alien, the only good part was that i was playing vegeta in the next film, i would say it was triggerd from my mate telling me he could see my “vegeta style” receding hair line earlier that day
July 21st, 2008 at 3:34 pm
I hope to god the trailer will be one of the things they show.
July 21st, 2008 at 3:34 pm
What happend with the banner? and what s that white thing to the left of “Dragonball” O_O
I feel this movie is on the wrong way with its low-quality posters, and “artistic”pics. I can t imagine this poor campaign on a batman movie.
July 21st, 2008 at 3:37 pm
@DPA: Banner works fine for me….
July 21st, 2008 at 3:43 pm
@DPA: What browser are you running? It looks much better with Mozilla Firefox
July 21st, 2008 at 3:47 pm
I used to go to Comic-Con every year, but lately tickets have been harder to get and they sell out REALLY fast.
I didn’t bother going this year because I thought they weren’t going to promote Dragonball . . . I feel like kicking myself. 
July 21st, 2008 at 3:55 pm
WE need to do some espionage and tape the trailer….
i need a paperclip chewing gum and a 9v battery 
lol
July 21st, 2008 at 4:01 pm
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/comic-con/?p=7
Fox’s official line-up for Comic Con. If they’re not even promoting Wolverine, they’re obviously not going to promote DB which doesn’t come out until after Wolverine is released.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:02 pm
@J: Perhaps it’s a surprise?
July 21st, 2008 at 4:03 pm
@rotting_corpse: I had a nightmare about it too. The whole thing was about highschool. I’m surprised in my dream they didn’t break out in song-and-dance.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:04 pm
@Adam: I was just putting that out there. I know they do surprises for E3 but I don’t know much about surprises for Comic-Con. TBH I’ve only watched part of CC last year so I don’t know much about it, sorry.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Sweet, maybe they’ll even the show the trailer there.
Geez, look at all the comments on the /film article. I don’t think some of those people know what the word “adaption” means.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:17 pm
@That Dragonball Guy: Well now they’re saying ‘based on’ instead of adaptation since it’s pretty loosely related to the source. I guess that’s appropriate, I want to see a trailer first though but I’m willing to wait a long time for that.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:18 pm
This has me very confused, especially since, as J posted, neither DB nor Wolverine are in the line up for Fox. O_O It’s interesting that the Hollywood Reporter said that . . . but still doesn’t seem very likely. I dunno. I sure won’t be complaining if it turns out true. XD
July 21st, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Maybe James Marsters will show up in full make-up and gear and reveal piccolo’s look that way…….
……….. 
July 21st, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I’m sure if this is true then it’ll be on youtube within the week. I would just wait for that.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Does anyone know which day are they going to promote Dragonball in Comic-Con? Because I’m going only going this Thursday.
July 21st, 2008 at 5:00 pm
There better be something. What the hell is fox thinking by being so low-key on this major MAJOR adaptation of the MOST popular anime of all time. Let me reiterate. MOST POPULAR ANIME OF ALL TIME. We should have gotten a teaser a month ago but they’re being stupid. God, throw us a bone here. some of us have been waiting decades for this.
July 21st, 2008 at 5:17 pm
re: breasts are full
my sentiments exactly.
fox has really been effin’ this one up. then again, they might have been running into cgi issues with that company that did 300.
July 21st, 2008 at 5:21 pm
cool!!! hope will come something new!!
July 21st, 2008 at 6:06 pm
well seeing as they have not started to do advertising here they will probably be handing out posters and stuff… things we have already seen from Japan… *crosses fingers* but i hope they show a trailer… or bring something new to the table for us.
July 21st, 2008 at 6:09 pm
@J: umm actually Dragonball comes out before Wolverine go check the fox movie website…
July 21st, 2008 at 6:32 pm
hope this ends up being true, its about time they start promoting this movie over here
July 21st, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Nappa: Vegeta my scouter senses a high power reading.
Vegeta: Mine too, i think it’s coming from…..”Comic-Con”
Nappa: Could it b Goku???
Vegeta: YES, THE READING IS OVER NINE THOUSAAAAND!!
ROFL, anyway, yo man if this news is true. Then this is gonna be an exciting week!!!
July 21st, 2008 at 6:39 pm
lol i also had a nightmare about the DB movie 3 nights ago. The bad guys were just 2 normal humans who were just bad and goku “beat them” by teaching them a lesson to behave good and thats it, it was horrible. roflmao
July 21st, 2008 at 6:47 pm
wow wow, when this whole comic con thing is over with, and they might be giving out posters… u think the poster might be on for sale online in a while???
July 21st, 2008 at 7:01 pm
hey the only live televised coverige of everything happening at comic con is Attack of the show. If anything happens they will surely show it, most likely even before it pops up on the internet. I know some people here dont watch tv but I’m just putting that out there
July 21st, 2008 at 7:05 pm
It really does seem as though fox is underestimating the box office potential of Dragonball. Even if the movie it’s self isn’t great, if they do a good job at marketing this film ( which they haven’t so far ) then it could stand to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars. As someone else said, this is THE MOST POPULAR ANIME OF ALL FREAK”N TIME!!, without question. Even if you’re not a fan, if you disagree with the fact that dragonball is insanely popular, you obviously haven’t done your research. Fox needs to get off their ass, hire some of the top marketers in the industry ( like say- the people behind the dark knight web campaign? ) and start trying to make this movie look appealing. Even if the movie’s crap, with good marketing you have every chance of convincing people otherwise- just look at spiderman 3. It just makes me angry that it really seems like they are putting very little effort into what could potentiallly turn into a mammoth franchise.
July 21st, 2008 at 7:12 pm
I had a dream about a DB movie awhile ago. It was right after the very first Cloverfield trailer came out. The one where they didnt show anything, just people running and the city blowing up. I dreamed that the trailer went on to show an oazuro attacking a city and piccolo showing up to take him out. It was a great dream.
July 21st, 2008 at 7:23 pm
didnt i mechion this berore and someone told me it wasnt gonna happend?
July 21st, 2008 at 7:36 pm
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July 21st, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Killpoint, I think its pretty obvious that this movie is beeing (and now pretty much finsihed) made.
July 21st, 2008 at 8:03 pm
sorry kill piont I think I missread your comment:)
July 21st, 2008 at 8:15 pm
lol u ppl are dumm
this hole movees a hoax lol
July 21st, 2008 at 8:20 pm
@ pikkoro26 :
take ur negativity SOMEWHERE ELSE
adam! FAN ART section
July 21st, 2008 at 8:30 pm
@pikkoro26:
This is what we call a troll people.
July 21st, 2008 at 10:29 pm
@Michael Bay: thats exactly how i feel,.. this movie could be insanely popular with the right promotion, fox are missing out on something huge by not promoting it. hopefully they´ll start this week at comic con
i want to believe they didn´t already start promoting because they have so much faith in the movie, that they don´t think it needs promotion 9,10 months before hitting theaters.. i mean, how could they put 100 million and not have faith in it?
@pikkoro26: f**k off
sorry about that adam
July 21st, 2008 at 11:18 pm
@nanjirou:
Dude pikkoro26 is just being a troll, don’t give pay him any attention and he will stop
July 21st, 2008 at 11:58 pm
@nanjirou: They haven’t started promoting Wolverine yet, either (to my knowledge, at least; I admit I’m not really following that movie) . . . and that one is coming out before DB. I don’t doubt that DB will get hyped up (Fox is good at that) when the time is right. I still think it’s a bit too early, though . . . at least for anything major.
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:05 am
@Moi: actually DB comes out first now they moved the Wolverine movie back to 5-1-09. but i see what your saying… we are all just hoping for a teaser though something to get us even more excited about the movie.
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:19 am
i think they might screen the teaser at comic-con
it makes sense them not releasing it yet, maybe waiting until comic-con
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:09 pm
@Michael Bay:
Spider-Man 3 was the third installment of a great franchise, while Dragonball is the first live-action movie in the series (Not counting that Magic Begins thing). Plus, Spider-Man has been around America for more then 50 years, and everyone has grown up with it.
Along with that, I also think the general public here is more open to the idea. When the average guy that doesn’t know what it is hears about it, he thinks “Well, that sounds alright. Guy gets bit by a biologically enhanced spider, then swings around and fights crime.” When it’s Dragonball, he thinks “WTF.” Who wouldn’t, especially once you hear about a pink fat thing that turns people into cookies.
The goal of most movies is to atleast make the budget back. Since Dragonball is so popular in Japan, they’d think the chance of a succesfull gross would be higher there. Obviously, there will be more promotion in Japan. I could be wrong, but so far, it’s been all in Japan. Nothing here.
I have a bad feeling that the marketing/promotion of this movie in the U.S. will be a giant blast of special beam shit. It’s dumb though, because with the right marketing, this movie could do well at this Box-Office.
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:18 pm
The poster looks cool but I’m worrying bout the trailer and da movie. But is the cool or does the movie is plain horrible? I red something in a website named dragonballmovieblog.net that da movie will be rated PG…nottttttt PG-13. Cmon, check it out……http://www.dragonballmovieblog.net/gallery/?pid=79. Just type website at da url or address, whatevr u call it. But 2 c it clearly u hav 2 click da it gives u n and dats it.
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
@DBZfan847: fox has not published the rating yet so i would not belive that rumor…. just wait till fox says the rating.
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:51 pm
I hope they show some footage..
And Adam,
The banner looks effing SICK!!!!
It totally butt-rapes the old one lol..
Awesome!
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Fox had better show the Dragonball trailer at Comic-Con ‘08, or else I gonna go homicidal.
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Actually, no. I’m just gonna be REALLY PISSED OFF! For me, this is the biggest news EVER! One of my favorite animes of all time is being turned live-action! And it looks promising! I’ve prayed quite a bit that this’ll be good, and so far, I’m not disappointed.
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:26 pm
@Novashinron: but it could still be shown in theaters, there have been other movies that have not been rated yet and they are shown.
July 24th, 2008 at 8:23 am
not at comin-con….nor with X-files…..fuck this shit I give up
July 24th, 2008 at 9:11 am
im going to it right now will look around
July 24th, 2008 at 9:12 am
YEH FUCK THIS SHIT AND FOXX
July 24th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Hey, what’s up with the fake piccolo in the first picture?
July 24th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
I knew it!
July 25th, 2008 at 9:44 am
hey who is vegeta? he’s very important person
July 25th, 2008 at 9:46 am
hey and vegeta? he’s very important in dragon ball
July 25th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
I have a feeling they’re not gonna show it, which sucks.
They should, since Wolverine comes out after it and they’ve already showed clips and stuff of it already to the press at least.
I hope that if they dont end up releasing a trailer to the public, at least show some clips to the press, and a site like IGN will cover it hopefully.
July 25th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
oh, great, didnt read the update, my bad.
so ya no dragonball at comic-con.
so what is another big event anybody else knows of where the dragonball stuff can be displayed, if there isn’t then i guess we’ll have to wait for a movie in theatres to show it’s trailer about 4 - 5 months before its release.
July 26th, 2008 at 11:25 am
So they choose to promote a stupid spin-off movie, instead of a new, big budget film with extreme franchise potential? What’s up Fox? At least promote both equally. DB is not getting it’s share of attention.
July 26th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Hey guys i hav read the ben ramsey script version of dragonball
it looks promising and good but it talks about lord piccolo all the way through the film and out of a 128 pages he only starts apears in
page 114. thats y i am glad that james wong has rewritten the script
because in the ben ramsey 1 the main villan is emperror pilaf
but in the james wong version the main villan is lord piccolo
July 29th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
man i had a dream about the high school scene goku kamehamaha the school bully i was there but the dream didnt feel right i geuss cause justin chatwin is not the right guy to goku i mean no muscles
August 8th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
WTF? They couldn’t have chosen worse matches to play the characters of dragonball. Did they not watch the series at all and pull the people out of a hat? I swear, I’ve watched DB, DBZ, and GT as a child. I’m kind of in shock. I’m suspecting this is going to be like the live action Street Fighter movie. These people have no clue what they’re screwing up.