The company ENTERBAY hinted on their blog that Dragonball: Evolution collectable figures will be coming in the second quarter of 2009.

ENTERBAY has done figures for Bruce Lee and Jet Li as well as for television shows like 24 and Mr. Bean.

Are you between the ages of 6-9? Well then you’ll love the Dragonball: Evolution chapter books! If not, then at least enjoy the cover art which consists of two new promo images!

Volume 1: The Discovery

Volume 2: The Search

Volume 3: The Battle

All 3 books release February 24th, 2009 for $4.99 each.

In the latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump, an advertisement was found for an upcoming video game based on the movie. Tentatively titled, “Dragonball The Movie,” the game has been revealed to be a fighter distributed by Bandai Namco Games for the Sony PSP. It’ll be released in Japan in March to coincide with the movie’s release.

Emmy Rossum (Bulma) updated her blog today from Tokyo, where she writes Justin Chatwin (Goku) was on the plane ride over there with her. Perhaps it’s for promotion?

Just a reminder that Jump Festa in Tokyo will be showing specially selected scenes from the movie on December 20th. If you pre-order tickets you’ll also be treated to a Goku or Piccolo bearbrick toy.

There were rumors that Justin Chatwin would be at the Dragonball movie panel at Jump Festa (where the movie clips will be shown), and this new blog post from Emmy could mean both of them will be attending.

A new photo from Licensing Asia 2008 in Tokyo has been posted on V-Jump’s staff blog. It is promoting contests and merchandise to be won at Sun Shopping Mall.

Sun Shopping Mall Dragonball Campaign

Clear the seven missions and get the great prizes during the campaign period !!

Lower right, the poster with Goku wearing a blue gi, is written “Tenkaichi Budokai” and below “special event.”

The Korean website Star News put up an interview with Joon Park (Yamcha) today, and we’ve got a translation.

I always wanted to be a Hollywood actor, because I’m not good at the Korean language for acting in a Korean movie.

Dragonball was my third audition in Hollywood. I went to the audition, and I was called up from the director to come audition again. When I went to audition again, there were actors who were well known in the U.S., so I had to fight them. I thought “Not a chance,” because I’m “God” in Korea, but a “shit” in the U.S. (laugh)

I entered the audition wearing a hat and shorts, and as soon as the director looked at me, he said “You are Yamcha.” I still can’t believe it. I won’t appear the first 25% of the movie, but I will later on.

I met Chow Yun-Fat for the first time when we traveled by helicopter. He was indeed a kind person. He was very friendly.

It isn’t easy to make a comic into a movie. It could have became too childish. So we were trying to maintain a middle ground. There will be a lot of CG in the movie. This is a family movie, so the shooting set was a very family-like atmosphere. “Speed Racer” was a very technical set, “Dragonball” set’s atmosphere was kind of like inviting staff to your home and having a barbecue.

Details of the movie are still a secret. It will be released on March 14th next year in South Korea and Japan for the first time in the world. Toys and video games will be released in the near future. My toys too. (laugh)

Promotion for Dragonball has been scarce so far, but luckily, according to Fox, promotion should start to take off soon. Thanks to DBLegends for the interview.

1. When will promotion for the film Dragonball officially begin and what can we expect?
Promotion will truly begin when we launch the official trailer. Expect to see plenty of TV spots and action closer to the release. This is typical with any campaign. The fans will really feel the promotion of the movie to begin by the end of the year and will be promoted at many targeted events in 2009.

2. A Junior Novel and Video Game have been confirmed. Any other possible merchandise? Maybe a TV spin off or new comic series?
Currently could not be answered, hopefully they will get back to me on this.

3. There has been a rumor going around that the sequel to this film will begin filming in the first quarter of 2009. Any truth to this?
There is no news on a sequel just yet. We tend to wait out and see how the initial film does and if sequels can be financed.

4. How reliant is this film on visual effects? Is the majority of the money going towards CGI (such as cities, fight scenes, etc.)?
There will be a lot of amazing effects and yes.

5. How would you compare the official trailer that releases later this year to the teaser that was shown during the licensing expo?
I am told the trailer will be different. That piece didn’t portray enough energy, so it wasn’t really reflective of the full feature. It was intended to show the look of some elements for L&M purposes, and to introduce some characters to those people. The L&M piece didn’t showcase the hard-core action that the film will offer, but the trailer will.

We’ve also gotten news on upcoming publicity shots. Hopefully they’ll be released soon, but for the moment here are some descriptions of the shots that I’m allowed to share.

Goku is sitting sideways on a (non-moving) type of bike/buggy. I’m not sure if it is a three or four wheeler, but there are two wheels at the front, it looks all mean and futuristic and most importantly, it’s dusty and needs a good wash.

Goku is chomping into what looks to be a turkey drumstick. Either that or it’s a gigantic chicken drumstick. He’s wearing his grey-black jacket and dark trousers and it’s in a street setting.

In a fight scene with Goku it appears that Piccolo’s ribbed armor is strapped on around his sides. He has strange black leather gloves on and a long sword with a square, not pointed end. Around his collar is quite a bit of black braid and brocade.

In all the photos of Piccolo I’ve seen so far, he isn’t green. But in the details ones he looks like he has moss forming in his crevices, so he does have a green tinge.

Over his ribbed armor, Piccolo wears a full length hooded cloak, which is the dark browny crimson color as seen in the trailer. It has a rich texture, it looks very exotic and has rows of Sequined circles up the front panels. Extremely nice and billowy.

When Piccolo does swirly things it is revealed that he has striped panels of dark velvety pink at the back of his cloak.

Overall, I’d say he looks like a modern, darker version of Piccolo from the show. But with a bad case of black ear wax and a much better cloak.

Playthings has confirmed that Fox is planning on releasing a Dragonball movie video game.

Twentieth Century Fox has appointed Gary Rosenfeld to the position of Senior Vice President of New Media Licensing, a role with oversight of the studio’s portfolio of video game projects and management responsibility for Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising’s (Fox L&M) games development staff.

Rosenfeld will explore opportunities in the growing PC online game space and investigate new business models and partnerships in the console publishing area. A handful of Fox properties will make it to the top of his list as he begins this new endeavor, starting with the studio’s major upcoming film releases and television brands, including Avatar, Night at the Museum - The Battle Of The Smithsonian, Ice Age 3, Dragonball, The Simpsons and Family Guy.

Prior to joining Fox L&M, Rosenfeld was a business development executive at video game publisher THQ Inc., where he managed the worldwide activity for product acquisitions and licensing. In total, Rosenfeld brings more than 15 years of interactive and licensing experience to the position.