Dragon Ball Z : Battle of Gods Returns To Theatres - Countries and Release Dates

[sangofe]

The director of the Polish dubs of Super and Kai has just made a post on Facebook saying if he gets 2,000 likes within the next week he will make a dub of Battle of Gods for VOD and these screenings.

Dariusz Kosmowski wrote:

And in English:

Your quotation doesn't work.

Either way, what do you guys is an effective way of reaching out to Piece of magic entertainment? The Norwegian translator for the Dragon Ball Super manga would like to help out making better subs for the Battle of Gods. I did send them an e-mail a few days ago but it's been radio silence. I was thinking about MAYBE calling them or contacting either of these people: https://pieceofmagic.com/#about-us

[TheRed259]

Italy: March 16, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/nexostudiosit/ ... 6236443370

Subbed and dubbed in Italian.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

Your quotation doesn't work.

Sorry, I started writing that post on my phone but then realized I wasn't able to copy the text from Facebook, so I used my laptop to edit the message.

Anyway, for those who missed it, this is what the director of the Polish Super and Kai dubs said:

Dariusz Kosmowski wrote:

Jeśli do 7 lutego 2025 roku włącznie 2000 unikalnych osób polajkuje lub poserduszkuje tego posta, to sprawię, że film "Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods" będzie miał dubbing na VOD, a także na marcowych specjalnych pokazach kinowych.

And in English:

If only 2,000 unique people like or heart this post by February 7, 2025, I'll make Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods dubbing on VOD and also in March special theaters.

Either way, what do you guys is an effective way of reaching out to Piece of magic entertainment?

If you've emailed and haven't heard back for a few days I guess calling would be the next best thing, just be wary of the cost of international phone calls.

Italy: March 16, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/nexostudiosit/ ... 6236443370

Subbed and dubbed in Italian.

Great to see more dubbed screenings bring announced, always great for options to be available.

[TheRed259]

Latvia: March 1, 2025
https://cinamonkino.com/alfa/film/drago ... ded-cut/en

The site may say that it's in Japanese but the clip here is in English:
https://www.facebook.com/CinamonLatvija ... 7424999994

The same clip was also used for Poland:
https://www.facebook.com/HeliosPolska/v ... 9554400930

[TheRed259]

Austria: March 18, 2025
https://www.megaplex.at/film/gasometer/ ... le-of-gods

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

Hopefully Austria gets the German dub too, as there are probably a lot of Dragon Ball fans there that grew up with the original anime series in German on ORF1.

I've noticed a lot of territories are reusing the Fathom Events trailer from the US re-release of this movie, which is odd as Piece of Magic Entertainment has already made their own trailer. Granted it still uses Funimation dub clips but it at least gives the correct date this movie is being re-released in some of these territories, the Fathom Events trailer promotes dates from 2023.

[TheRed259]

For reference the movie was shown in these territories by date during its original release:

Spoiler:

• Argentina: September 26, 2013
• Australia: August 28, 2014
• Bolivia: November 14, 2014
• Brazil: October 11, 2013
• Canada: August 5, 2014
• Chile: October 3, 2013
• Colombia: October 4, 2013
• Ecuador: September 20, 2013
• Hong Kong: August 15, 2013
• Italy: January 30, 2014
• Japan: March 30, 2013
• Mexico: September 27, 2013
• New Zealand: August 28, 2014
• Peru: September 26, 2013
• Philippines: August 14, 2013
• South Korea: August 29, 2013
• Spain: May 30, 2014
• Thailand: October 23, 2013
• United States: August 5, 2014
• Uruguay: October 10, 2013
• Venezuela: October 11, 2013

Don't trust this site since they don't document everything. For example, they have only 23 countries for DBS: Super Hero while I have found at least 146. Same goes for IMDb.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

For reference the movie was shown in these territories by date during its original release:

Spoiler:

• Argentina: September 26, 2013
• Australia: August 28, 2014
• Bolivia: November 14, 2014
• Brazil: October 11, 2013
• Canada: August 5, 2014
• Chile: October 3, 2013
• Colombia: October 4, 2013
• Ecuador: September 20, 2013
• Hong Kong: August 15, 2013
• Italy: January 30, 2014
• Japan: March 30, 2013
• Mexico: September 27, 2013
• New Zealand: August 28, 2014
• Peru: September 26, 2013
• Philippines: August 14, 2013
• South Korea: August 29, 2013
• Spain: May 30, 2014
• Thailand: October 23, 2013
• United States: August 5, 2014
• Uruguay: October 10, 2013
• Venezuela: October 11, 2013

Don't trust this site since they don't document everything. For example, they have only 23 countries for DBS: Super Hero while I have found at least 146. Same goes for IMDb.

Fair enough, I was putting the number of territories Battle of Gods originally opened in at 20+ because 20 are listed on BoxOfficeMojo, but of course they don't include France so there could very well be other countries where it was screened in 2013/2014.

It will be interesting when all is said and done to see how many countries get Battle of Gods this time, especially if any distributors get to put on screenings outside of Europe.

[TheRed259]

Kosovo: March 1, 2025
https://cinestarcinemas-ks.eu/cinestar- ... -gods/5889

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

Luxembourg: March 8, 2025

https://kinepolis.lu/en/movies/detail/1 ... tended-cut

Same date as France and Belgium, so hopefully all three will get French dubbed screenings.

[TheRed259]

Bosnia and Herzegovina: March 1, 2025
https://cinestarcinemas.ba/cinestar-bih ... -gods/5889

[sangofe]

According to the cinema showing battle of Gods in Norway it'll be showed with English subtitles.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

According to the cinema showing battle of Gods in Norway it'll be showed with English subtitles.

On the Irish Odeon Cinemas website this movie is categorised under "Subtitled Foreign Language", so I'm going to assume it will be the Japanese version with Funimation's subtitles.

Broly and Super Hero were both shown here with an Japanese with English subs option, so I see no reason it wouldn't be the same here.

I have my Blu-Ray, which includes the dub so its not like I won't be able to rewatch it whenever I like anyway.

[sangofe]

According to the cinema showing battle of Gods in Norway it'll be showed with English subtitles.

On the Irish Odeon Cinemas website this movie is categorised under "Subtitled Foreign Language", so I'm going to assume it will be the Japanese version with Funimation's subtitles.

Broly and Super Hero were both shown here with an Japanese with English subs option, so I see no reason it wouldn't be the same here.

I have my Blu-Ray, which includes the dub so its not like I won't be able to rewatch it whenever I like anyway.

Remember Norway doesn't has English as an official language. I don't think you can compare Ireland to Norway.Super Super hero had a viewing with Norwegian subtitles translated from English and English subtitles.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

According to the cinema showing battle of Gods in Norway it'll be showed with English subtitles.

On the Irish Odeon Cinemas website this movie is categorised under "Subtitled Foreign Language", so I'm going to assume it will be the Japanese version with Funimation's subtitles.

Broly and Super Hero were both shown here with an Japanese with English subs option, so I see no reason it wouldn't be the same here.

I have my Blu-Ray, which includes the dub so its not like I won't be able to rewatch it whenever I like anyway.

Remember Norway doesn't has English as an official language. I don't think you can compare Ireland to Norway.Super Super hero had a viewing with Norwegian subtitles translated from English and English subtitles.

Fair enough, and of course English is most Irish people's first language. I was more thinking that if Piece of Magic were willing to risk having sub-only screenings in Ireland then surely they would have the confidence to put on sub-only screenings elsewhere.

Remember the Funimation dubs of Dragon Ball Z, Kai and Super aired here so there is a greater chance of alienating English dub fans here.

[TheRed259]

Switzerland: March 1, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/pathech/videos ... 7989391943

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

Switzerland: March 1, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/pathech/videos ... 7989391943

That's great, hopefully it will be a wide enough release so that German and Italian-speaking parts of Switzerland get it too.

It could happen as Omniplex are bringing the movie to even more towns across Ireland, so now no matter what part of the country you live in there will be a screening relatively close.

[TheRed259]

Iceland: March 15, 2025
https://bio.smarabio.is/movie/dragon-ba ... -gods-2013

[TheRed259]

Finland: March 15, 2025
https://www.finnkino.fi/event/304948/ti ... tended_cut

Piece Of Magic Entertainment also confirmed that the movie will play in over 25 European countries this March.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/piece-of ... 27489-PztL

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

Piece Of Magic Entertainment also confirmed that the movie will play in over 25 European countries this March.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/piece-of ... 27489-PztL

Can confirm the number of territories now stands at 26.

For those curious the remaining European countries I'm aware of that haven't got a screening are:

• Russia (part-European)
• Spain
• Ukraine
• Romania
• Greece
• Hungary
• Belarus
• Bulgaria
• Moldova
• Albania
• Slovenia
• Montenegro
• Liechtenstein
• Andorra
• Malta
• San Marino
• Monaco
• Holy See

Spain, Greece and Hungary are probably the most likely to come next. The rest are probably long shots, although I've been surprised with some of the Nordic, Balkan and former Yugoslavian territories that have been announced, so who knows.

I thought this was only going to be a one-off in select European territories, but it's been a pleasant surprise that most of the continent will be getting some screenings.