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Shonen Jump to Feature Dragonball Posters

Source:VIZ Media, LLC

March 14, 2009

VIZ Media has announced that Shonen Jump magazine will feature Dragonball Evolution fold-out posters and photos in its next issue, hitting stands and online on March 31st:

VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, has announced the upcoming release of a special SHONEN JUMP DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION posterzine, based on the upcoming live-action film from 20th Century Fox starring Justin Chatwin as Goku, Emmy Rossum as Bulma, Jamie Chung as Chi Chi, and Chow Yun-Fat as Master Roshi. Dragonball: Evolution opens nationwide on April 8th and is inspired by Akira Toriyama's smash hit DRAGON BALL manga (graphic novel) series, also published domestically by VIZ Media and featured in SHONEN JUMP magazine.

The new SHONEN JUMP DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION posterzine celebrates the upcoming live-action adventure feature film Dragonball: Evolution. Both the movie, directed by James Wong, and the DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION posterzine, published by VIZ Media, bring to life the action and the characters from the eagerly awaited film. Look for the posterzine on newsstands wherever SHONEN JUMP magazine is sold and online at Store.Viz.com beginning March 31st. The SHONEN JUMP DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION posterzine carries an MSRP of $9.99 and is rated T for Teens. The posterzine features 11 full-color posters that fold out to 16" x 22" and depict a variety of vivid action shots and all the film's main characters.

"We're very excited to announce our first live-action Hollywood posterzine product to support the highly anticipated release of the Dragonball: Evolution movie," says Christopher Boily, VIZ Media Sr. Director, Newsstand. "It's great to see our hugely popular DRAGON BALL manga get the full Hollywood treatment for the big screen – and the high quality glossy images will help bring everyone's favorite characters to life and offer a fun way for fans to pay homage to this incredible new movie."

Dragonball: Evolution, the live-action feature film (rated PG) centers on a team of warriors, each of whom possess special abilities. Together, they protect Earth from a force bent on dominating the universe by controlling the mystical objects from which the film takes its name. Dragonball: Evolution features Justin Chatwin as Goku, Emmy Rossum as Bulma, Jamie Chung as Chi Chi, and Chow Yun-Fat as Master Roshi. Dragonball: Evolution the movie is based on the popular Japanese manga series created by Akira Toriyama (also published in North America by VIZ Media).

DRAGON BALL has become a global pop culture and entertainment phenomenon that has generated more than $3 billion in worldwide sales of a vast array of products including manga, DVDs, video games, toys, apparel and other collectibles. Over 1.6 million copies of the manga series have been sold in North America to date, while the animated counterpart remains the most successful domestic anime series ever with over 500 episodes and 17 animated movies broadcast or released on DVD to date. Over 30 DRAGON BALL video game titles are also available for the PS2, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 platforms, and have sold a total of more than 11 million units worldwide.

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COMMENTS (25)

Posted by:

Sooners

March 15, 2009

Gosh.. this could be a guilty pleasure movie

Posted by:

crowsticky1234

March 15, 2009

Why it's not showing in the site.

Posted by:

2sday

March 15, 2009

No pleasure of any kind will ever come about from this film to anyone. EVER.

I can honestly say this is my most despised movie of all time, as well as one of the biggest dissapointments in my entire life...

Posted by:

whatsittoya

March 15, 2009

This movie's gonna bomb. not because it actually sucks(which it could) but because you people are to damn proud to admit you may be wrong! Go, see the movie first *******s! If it sucks it sucks. If not, It won't matter because everyone's going to say it will.

Posted by:

the dark star

March 15, 2009

i cant believe i waited so long for this, and its a f@#*ing ro-co

Posted by:

Mikey

March 15, 2009

John Campea i told you Dragon Ball was a $4 billion franchise you ignorent prick!!

Posted by:

Unknownman

March 15, 2009

quote : " .. DRAGON BALL has become a global pop culture and entertainment phenomenon that has generated more than $3 billion in worldwide sales of a vast array of products including manga, DVDs, video games, toys, apparel and other collectibles ... bla bla bla " ..

.. and Hollywood ruin it by making this movie .. :)

Posted by:

Mikey

March 15, 2009

@Unknownman

It was $3 billion but not to long ago it made $4 billion. This has been confirmed by various sites.

Posted by:

Sasami

March 15, 2009

When I saw the white Goku in that trailor, I wanted to cry.

Posted by:

spike

March 15, 2009

ok sasami put a picture of goku from the cartoon next to any asain on the face of god's green earth and they look nothing alike he is drawn like a white boy so a white boy plays him. Blame the artist. Personally I always saw Robin shou as Goku but then he got to old for the role so they gave it to this kid. Japan seems to like it lets see how we like it.