The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
According to Atari’s latest press release, all disputes with FUNimation have been settled and they will continue onwards as the exclusive US rights holder — all it did was cost them another $3.5 million: Atari, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATAR), an interactive entertainment company, announced today that it settled its previously reported dispute with FUNimation Productions Ltd. …
IESB.net is reporting that the upcoming live action Dragon Ball movie will begin filming on January 7th. However, as you read through the news, you will notice that the tip is just coming in via an e-mail from someone in the area. They may trust the person, but to me it is not quite as …
IGN has been showing some Dragon Ball minor bits of love lately. This time around, their “Anime” section (which I never knew existed) has a “DragonBall Z: Top 10 Plot Twists” feature. Thanks to The S for the heads-up on that list. It is extremely English-version-centric, but the author (David Smith) has a pretty good …
The cover art for the upcoming Bardock and Trunks “double feature” has come out (via AAA Anime Distribution): In case you have not been keeping up, this is a re-release of these two Dragon Ball Z TV specials (titled by FUNimation as “Bardock: The Father of Goku” and “The History of Trunks”). They were originally …
Anime News Network (via The Hollywood Reporter) has delivered the news that the role of Chi-Chi has been cast for the upcoming live-action Dragon Ball movie. Jamie Chung, who has apparently been involved with MTV’s “The Real World” in the past, will be taking on the role of Chi-Chi.
Live near Durango, Mexico? Want to be in the live action Dragon Ball movie? IESB.net has the dirt on what is on the up and up and who is who — something like that, anyway. Apparently the call is out there for extras of all types. Julio Toledo is handling the extras casting. If you …
SonGokuGT over on our forum pointed us to bluray.com which notes that Toei has gone (at least for now) with Blu-ray as their preferred high-definition home format: Toei International has announced that they are planning to release ‘Clannad’ for Blu-ray on March 7th in Japan. This will be the first Blu-ray release for the studio, …
A post over on Kotaku a few days ago notes that Mexican actress Camila Sodi has auditioned for the role of Bulma in the upcoming American live-action adaptation of Dragon Ball for the big screen.
The final two Dragon Ball individual disc covers have been revealed. Discs #25 and #26 contain five episodes each, covering episodes 144 thru 153, and are slated to be released 05 December 2007. You can still order any of the released Z discs or any of these discs from Amazon Japan.
Everyone’s favorite battle in the Dragon World — Atari vs. FUNimation — continued onwards today with Atari’s next quarterly report (also delayed, but quite as delayed as theirprevious quarterly report: We are a party to two license agreements with FUNimation Productions, Ltd. (“FUNimation”) pursuant to which we distribute the Dragonball Z software titles. On October …