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Streamline Pictures

Foundation date: 1988
About:
Founded by former Harmony Gold employee Carl Macek, and cartoon historian Jerry Beck, Streamline Pictures was the first company in North America focussed exclusively on releasing anime and the first to release anime titles in their entirety. Their first two releases were AKIRA Production Report (1989) and Katsuhiro Otomo's 1988 masterpiece AKIRA (1990).
In the mid-1990s, as anime continued to grow a larger fan following in North America, Streamline inked a distribution deal with Orion Pictures to release their titles to more stores across the U.S. at lower prices.
Streamline Pictures went out of business in 1999. Majority of their anime catalog went to other distributors such as ADV Films, Geneon Entertainment and Urban Vision. Some titles wound up with Image Entertainment, which initially distributed them on laserdisc during Streamline's heyday.
News: Show:
Reported Issues With 4K Akira and Wicked City Home Releases (Dec 7, 2020)
Silent Möbius Paranormal Police Manga Gets Stage Play (Dec 17, 2016)
Discotek Delays Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro DVD by 2 Weeks (Dec 12, 2014)
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro Remaster's Trailer Compares Quality (May 2, 2014)
Sentai Filmworks Adds Gainax's Nadia - The Secret of Blue Water TV (Nov 9, 2013)
Silent Mobius QD Paranormal Police Sequel Manga to Launch (Jul 8, 2013)
Discotek Licenses Casshan: Robot Hunter Video Anime (Mar 12, 2012)
Mag: Live-Action Vampire Hunter D, More Anime Planned (Feb 21, 2010)
Lupin III: the Last Job TV Special to Air in February (Dec 21, 2009)
Funimation Adds Casshern Sins, Eden of the East (Update 2) (Jul 18, 2009)
Udon to Publish Silent Möbius: Complete Edition (Feb 16, 2009)
Discotek Licenses 1st Fist of the North Star Anime Film (Dec 31, 2008)
Lupin III Theme Attraction to Open in Tokyo in Spring (Oct 21, 2008)
NY Anime Fest to Debut Vampire Hunter D Short Story (Aug 18, 2008)
Casshern Sins Trailer Posted Online (Aug 8, 2008)
Devil's Due to Adapt Vampire Hunter D into U.S. Comics (Jun 30, 2008)
New Casshern Anime Tentatively Titled Casshern Sins (Jun 19, 2008)
Madhouse to Animate New Casshern TV Series for Fall (Mar 27, 2008)
Aura! Battler! Dunbine! (Apr 7, 2003)
New ADV Releases (Mar 6, 2003)
Update: Academy Anime Tribute (Nov 14, 2001)
Details on Academy of Motion Pictures tribute (Oct 24, 2001)
Fanime Guest List (Mar 9, 2001)
Unsold Anime Pilots Screening (Sep 6, 2000)
Anime Festival In Long Beach, CA (Apr 17, 2000)
New 3X3 Dub Coming (Feb 25, 2000)
MGM discontinues Streamline catalog after two months (Apr 16, 1999)
News Briefs (Apr 16, 1999)
Streamline titles to be re-released (Dec 12, 1998)
Other articles: Show:
ANNCast Classic: Macek Training (Jan 9, 2014)
The Mike Toole Show - A Tale of Two Dubs (Feb 12, 2012)
The Mike Toole Show - The Least Essential Anime (Sep 11, 2011)
Brain Diving - Colony of the Wild (Aug 23, 2011)
The Mike Toole Show - Anime At The Movies (Mar 27, 2011)
The Mike Toole Show - The Lost Decade (Jan 2, 2011)
The Mike Toole Show - Join The Club (Nov 21, 2010)
The Mike Toole Show: Saito's Impossible Hit (Jul 4, 2010)
Buried Treasure - Dirty Pair: Project Eden (Apr 29, 2010)
ANNCast - Kurt in Earnest (Mar 4, 2010)
ANNCast - Macek Training (Jan 15, 2010)
Buried Treasure - Barefoot Gen (Jul 30, 2009)
Anime! High Art - Pop Culture in Beverly Hills (May 15, 2009)
Buried Treasure - Megazone 23 Trilogy (Jan 22, 2009)
Hey, Answerman! (Jan 16, 2009)
Buried Treasure - Windaria (Jul 17, 2008)
Buried Treasure - Twilight of the Dark Master (Mar 13, 2008)
Buried Treasure - Robot Carnival (Oct 26, 2006)
Old School - Silent Mobius - Movie (Jul 16, 2003)
Old School - Robot Carnival (Mar 9, 2003)
Old School - Project Eden (Jan 8, 2003)
2001 - A Year in Review: Theatrical Anime (Jan 1, 2002)
Answerman: It's What's For Breakfast! (Mar 25, 2001)
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Anime which this company has licensed:
3x3 Eyes (OAV) (Expired)
Akira (movie) (expired) (1990)
Babel II (OAV) (Expired)
Barefoot Gen (movie) (Expired)
Casshan: Robot Hunter Casshern (OAV) (expired)
Crimson Wolf (OAV) (Expired)
Crying Freeman (OAV) (Expired)
Dirty Pair: Affair on Nolandia (OAV)
Dirty Pair: Project Eden (movie) (expired)
Doomed Megalopolis (OAV) (Expired)
Fist of the North Star (movie) (License Expired)
Galactic Patrol Lensman (TV)
Golgo 13: The Professional (movie) (Expired)
Lensman (movie) (License Expired)
Lily C.A.T. (OAV) (Expired)
Lupin III: Part II (TV) (Tales of the Wolf; eps 145, 155)
Lupin the 3rd: The Mystery of Mamo (movie) (Expired)
Megazone 23 (OAV) (Expired)
Nadia - The Secret of Blue Water (TV) (Expired)
Neo-Tokyo (movie) (Expired)
Once Upon a Time (movie) (Expired)
Robot Carnival (OAV) (Expired)
Robotech (U.S. TV) (Expired)
Silent Möbius: The Motion Picture (License Expired)
Twilight of the Cockroaches (movie) (License Expired)
Wicked City (movie) (Expired)
Zillion (TV)
Zillion: Burning Night (OAV)

Anime with which this company was otherwise involved:
(English version)
Akira (movie) : Special Thanks To (Funimation)
Birth (OAV) : Distributor (VHS; Expired)
Crimson Wolf (OAV) : ADR Production, Production
Crying Freeman (OAV) : Production (vols 1-5)
Dirty Pair: Affair on Nolandia (OAV) : Recording Studio
Dirty Pair: Project Eden (movie) : Recording Studio
Doomed Megalopolis (OAV) : Adaptation
Fist of the North Star (movie) : ADR Production
Labyrinth (movie) : Distributor
Lensman (movie) : Production
Lily C.A.T. (OAV) : Production
Lupin III: Part II (TV) : ADR Production (Tales of the Wolf; eps 145, 155)
Megazone 23 (OAV) : Distributor (VHS Expired)
My Neighbor Totoro (movie) : Production (Original English Dub)
(The) Order to Stop Construction (movie) : Distributor (expired)
Robotech II: The Sentinels (U.S. OAV) : Distributor (Expired)
Running Man (movie) : Distributor
Sangokushi [1]: Eiyū-tachi no Yoake (movie) : ADR Production
Space Adventure Cobra - The Movie : Dubbing (US)
Vampire Hunter D (OAV) : Dubbing
Wicked City (movie) : ADR Production
Yaruki Manman (OAV) : ADR Production
Zeiram (live-action movie) : ADR Production
Zillion (TV) : Recording Studio
Zillion: Burning Night (OAV) : Production, Recording Studio, Released by 

(Japanese version)
Roujin Z (movie) : Sound Effects Design Collaboration

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