Central Park Media

History

Central Park Media was an American multimedia entertainment company based in New York. It was formed in 1990. A year later, the company began distributing anime titles through the company's licensing label U.S. Manga Corps. The company begin distributing titles from other anime companies, like U.S. Renditions, The Right Stuf International, AnimEigo, A.D. Vision, Viz Video and Software Sculptors in order to create a national anime distributor to compete with Streamline Pictures. The company also distributed non-anime releases from Kit Parker Films and American Visions.

Central Park would create another label, Anime 18 in 1992, to release adult anime films, and would later buy Software Sculptors outright in the mid-1990s.

Several people were defected from CPM in the late 1990s. John Sirabella, the founder of Software Sculptors and former CPM employee left CPM, while other companies started national distribution itself, and some companies jumping ship to Pioneer Entertainment.

The company went bankrupt in 2009.

1991

Catalog number	Title	Country of origin	Original year	Length	Version	MPAA rating	Film format	Tape count	Tape break placement (if applicable)	Color	Released	Note(s)
1037	Dominion Tank Police Act I	Japan	1989	40 min	English-subtitled version	R	Academy	1	N/A	Color	November 7, 1991	Translation by U.S. Renditions. Subtitles by Ultra Video. Early copies were distributed through VPI Harmony and BMG Video.

1992

Catalog number	Title	Country of origin	Original year	Length	Version	MPAA rating	Film format	Tape count	Tape break placement (if applicable)	Color	Released	Note(s)
1015	Project A-Ko	Japan	1986	86 min	English-subtitled version	PG-13	Matted 1.85	1	N/A	Color	January 22, 1992	TBD

1993

Catalog number	Title	Country of origin	Original year	Length	Version	MPAA rating	Film format	Tape count	Tape break placement (if applicable)	Color	Released	Note(s)
1068	Project A-Ko	Japan/UK	1986	86 min	English-dubbed version	PG-13	Matted 1.85	1	N/A	Color	January 6, 1993	TBD
1071	The Venus Wars	Japan/UK	1989	104 min	English-dubbed version	PG-13	VistaVision	1	N/A	Color	October 20, 1993	TBD

1994

Catalog number	Title	Country of origin	Original year	Length	Version	MPAA rating	Film format	Tape count	Tape break placement (if applicable)	Color	Released	Note(s)
1091	Genocyber, Part 1: Birth of Genocyber	Japan	1994	46 min	English-subtitled version	NR	Academy	1	N/A	Color	March 2, 1994	Copyright year incorrectly says "1993."
1101	Genocyber, Parts 2 & 3: Vajranoid Showdown	Japan	1994	50 min	English-subtitled version	NR	Academy	1	N/A	Color	October 5, 1994	Copyright year incorrectly says "1993."
1110	The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Part 1	Japan/UK	1991	59 min	English dubbed version	NR	Academy	1	N/A	Color	September 7, 1994	TBD

1995

Catalog number	Title	Country of origin	Original year	Length	Version	MPAA rating	Film format	Tape count	Tape break placement (if applicable)	Color	Released	Note(s)
1292	Roujin Z	Japan/UK	1991	80 min	English-dubbed version	PG-13	Matted 1.85	1	N/A	Color	1995	Dubbed into English by Manga Entertainment Ltd.