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Carl Macek and Jerry Beck founded Streamline Pictures in late 1988. The two men entered a small office in Los Angeles to build the company that would alter how the English-speaking world consumed Japanese animation.
Streamline Pictures premiered Hayao Miyazaki's 1986 film Laputa: Castle in the Sky at the Roxy Screening Room in Philadelphia on the 24th of March 1989. The company chose to dub My Neighbor Totoro first, which was later theatrically released by Troma Films in 1993.
Streamline Pictures released titles such as Akira, The Castle of Cagliostro, Fist of the North Star, Wicked City, Lensman, Vampire Hunter D, and The Professional: Golgo 13. Akira premiered at The Biograph in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. on the 25th of December 1989.
Gregory Snegoff, Steve Kramer, Ardwight Chamberlain, Tom Wyner, and Mike Reynolds worked as independent writers and voice actors for Streamline Pictures. These individuals had previously served as series staff writers and voice actors on Robotech.
Streamline Pictures stopped producing new anime releases in 1997 and closed its doors for good in 2000. The company began releasing foreign films under its Independent Filmworks label in 1996 until the closure.