Who owns the rights to dbz

By all accounts, it can. After buying Fox, Disney now owns the film rights to Dragon Ball , as well as the theatrical distribution rights to any anime film Toei puts out, as seen with Dragon Ball Super: Broly. But just because Disney can do it, doesn't mean it will. In fact, Disney would have little to no incentive to develop a Dragon Ball movie in the near future, especially considering the financial risks they'd face in doing so.

Obviously, the combination of Disney and Dragon Ball is a match made in heaven. Disney has proven it can produce tons of profitable, high-budget films, bringing imaginative worlds to vivid reality. Disney has done wonders with Star Wars and Marvel, so if any studio could bring Goku and friends to life, it's the Mouse House. Furthermore, Disney has recently been trying to appeal to a broader international market.

It's no secret that many of its films have proven insanely profitable in China and the Asian market. If Disney wanted to draw in an international audience, what better way than to make a Dragon Ball film, one of the most beloved Japanese properties ever produced? Plus, Disney in the past has tried making anime adaptations, such as with their attempted Sailor Moon adaptation from the 90s. So maybe they'd want to revisit this potential mine of properties? Dragon Ball has appeared on the big screen multiple times over the years, sometimes in animated films or live-action films -- and yes, films, as in there have been multiple live-action Dragon Ball films.

While the property is hotter than ever, the animated films have cost far less than their live-action counterparts and received far more money in return. Dragon Ball, throughout its four series, has had twenty animated films released.

While the first two films brought in less than a million each in their limited two-day runs, the latter three films proved to be among the most financially successful anime films ever released in American theaters. First of all, how dare you? Second of all, yes they had plans for multiple films that would include elements the Dragon Ball Z part of the franchise. But, if we know anything about Disney, it is that if they can monetize it, then they will use it.

The scariest part is that I have very little faith that they will actually harness primarily Japanese talent for these films. If we are going to get anime adaptations, especially big ones like this, can we just be better about this, please?

Hopefully, whatever happens, Akira Toriyama gets his money and that they never, ever try to make us think that Kamehameha Wave looks like whatever the Hells this was supposed to be.

Want more stories like this? Well, almost exactly 10 years after Dragon Ball: Evolution graced the big screen, The Walt Disney Company finalized the purchase and acquisition of 20th Century Fox, which produced and released Dragon Ball: Evolution and retained the rights to live-action Dragon Ball films up until its Disney acquisition. That means the House of Mouse now has the exclusive right to produce and distribute a cinematic universe based on one of the most important, influential and impactful pieces of pop culture ever made.

Will Disney ever cash in on weebs? Probably not. Yes, yes I am. In fact, it would probably be reimagined with much more of its roots integrated into the adaptation: more Journey to the West and a lot less gags, oddball characters and adventures, making for a more serious, serene martial arts tale with quippy MCU-esque humor thrown in and nary a sexual joke in sight.

Heck, all sexual humor seen throughout the series would, without a doubt, be cut out and Master Roshi would be turned into a serious, less satirical version of the great fictional martial arts masters that inspired his creation — in some sense a welcome change, but one that would both enrage many Dragon Ball fans and stand as emblematic of the corporate-created DBCU.

However, the much more noticeable mark of this would be the connections. While all this is going on, Disney would be gearing up for the Android and Cell sagas — which would be split into two, possibly three films — as well as developing one or more spinoff series. Starring who and about what? The cynical answer to both would be a. However, the most likely outcome is that all of these spinoffs will be announced… and then some will be delayed… and then reshot… and then cancelled, then changed to a TV miniseries that fails and is later retconned and so on and so forth.

In fact, it will go all-in on the Majin Buu film, and by all-in I mean it will attempt to fix what many have deemed the worst saga in all of Dragon Ball Z.