We don’t normally post fan made creations here, but I thought this could be an exception. A friend of mine (who happened to make the banner for the site), made an excellent fan made trailer for the film. I know there’s millions out there, but I thought this one was among the best. For future reference, we won’t be covering any other fan made stuff, but you’re free to post your work on the forums.

Just 8 months to go.

Just a quick post about a new board I’ve opened. Basically we’ve been meaning to switch to vBulletin for a long time, and we finally got around to doing so. Instead of simply uploading it to this server and keeping the generic dbthemovie.com/forum url, we decided to host it on a completely different server and domain, so its resources will not effect DBtheMovie or vice versa. Former forum members will be given special privileges, and we’ll be working on a new theme soon. At any rate, be one of the first to join the new forums at LegendaryForums.com.

One thing that has been bothering fans of Dragonball for some time now is that Fox is making the movie. Many fans are concerned that Fox has no faith in Dragonball and will not put the resources (namely marketing) into it. Well, according to Tim Rothman, co-chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment, Dragonball will be a “strongly targeted” film.

“Big studios need to be tentpole driven,” Rothman says. “And we already have our 2009 tentpoles in place.”

“As I look out from where we are, what we look forward to is that we have a consistent supply of all-audience films opening over the next 18 months, and in between those films, we have strongly targeted films like ‘Max Payne,” “Notorious,’ ‘Dragonball Z’ — films that will have a strong, defined avidity among the targeted audience,” he says.

Variety explains Fox’s reasoning for buying screenplays and film rights and then taking their good old time to greenlight them.

As for development, they’re proud that they can beat a screenplay into shape, no matter how long it takes. For example, the studio has already spent more than $5 million on a script for a bigscreen version of “The A-Team,” but has yet to give it the greenlight.

What do you think? Do you think Fox has faith in their property? You can read the full article on Variety.

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.

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.

As you probably know by now, our old host suspended the account because of a copyright infrigment claim by 20th Century Fox. We have since moved to a new, better, host and removed the photos in question.

I would like to say that I think it’s rather sad that a company that isn’t promoting their own film would threaten the people who would actually pay to do it for them. But, such is life.

Luckily all posts and comments remain intact, including all forum posts. We’ve also added a new gallery, though unfortunately we had to remove a large percentage of pictures previously released. Most parts of the site are fully functional now, and we will be continuing to improve the site over the next few days.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused, and we thank you for your patience.

This was a surprising bit of news I received from a Fox representative. Apparently, Fox is so sure the first movie will be successful that they’re already planning a Weaver (Luis Arretia) television spin-off.

“The anime was pretty good, but it wasn’t great. Weaver, a new character made by our marketing team, is a different kind of super hero. When we set out to create this new character, we made it our top priority to make a character that we felt everyone would be able to relate to, and we think we’ve been very successful in that regard.”

“He’s a nerd, but he also has super strength. He’s not good with the ladies, but that all changes when he’s bitten by a radioactive dragon. I don’t want to give anything away, but he plays a huge part in the first movie, and maybe in the sequels as well. The first movie ends with a huge cliffhanger, but it’s a surprise that the fans will have to wait for, and we don’t think they’ll be disappointed. Oh, hell, I’ll tell you: Weaver is Goku’s father.”

“Dragonball Origins: Weaver,” airs on the Fox television network May 4th, 2009. Fox also hinted at further projects with other movie-made characters.