Toei Animation announced on Tuesday that its milestone 20th Dragon Ball anime movie will be tentatively titled Dragon Ball Super Movie, a sequel to the Dragon Ball Super television anime series which is scheduled to complete its nearly three-year broadcast run on March 25.

Dragon Ball Super Movie, directed by Tatsuya Nagamine (One Piece Film: Z) and written by Dragon Ball series mangaka Akira Toriyama, will open in theaters in Japan on December 14, 2018. In a prepared statement, Toriyama said the movie "will shed a little light on previously unexplored topics having to do with Frieza and the Saiyans."

This will the first Dragon Ball movie to be released by Toei Animation in more than three years. The previous title, Dragon Ball Z Movie 15: Fukkatsu no F earned 3.74 billion yen in the Japanese box office to become the sixth highest-grossing domestic film in 2015. It was also nominated for the Animation of the Year award of the Japan Academy Prize.

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Source: Moca News