Rentrak Theatrical Announces Box Office Numbers for Weekend of May 15, 2009

Rentrak Theatrical Announces Box Office Numbers for Weekend of May 15, 2009

LOS ANGELES, May 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rentrak Theatrical, a business unit of Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ:RENT), today announced the weekend theatrical box office estimates for the weekend period of May 15 through May 17, 2009 according to the company's Box Office Essentials(TM) theatrical box office data collection and analytical service.

The twelve estimated top producing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of 9:30AM Pacific on Sunday, May 17, 2009 by Rentrak Theatrical include:

Rank Title Weekend Gross Locations
1 Angels & Demons $48,000,000 3527
2 Star Trek $43,000,000 3860
3 X-Men Origins: Wolverine $14,800,000 3892
4 The Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past $6,860,000 3150
5 Obsessed $4,550,000 2634
6 17 Again $3,400,000 2450
7 Monsters vs. Aliens $3,000,000 1951
8 The Soloist $2,425,000 2022
9 Next Day Air $2,281,000 1139
10 Earth $1,680,000 1584
11 Hannah Montana The Movie $1,555,000 1625
12 Fighting $1,061,060 1166

Weekend of 05/15/09 to 05/17/09
(C) 2009 by Rentrak Corporation

About Box Office Essentials

Box Office Essentials provides each studio with password-protected, real-time, web browser-based and 24/7 access to data pertaining specifically to their movie release titles. A sophisticated toolset allows studio distribution executives to view and analyze the information at different levels of detail and across a multitude of attributes (by theatre circuit, DMA, time zone, etc.), enhancing their ability to make faster, and better informed decisions. Additional features include online school calendars (K-12 and college), interactive release schedule and 24-hour subscriber support.

About Rentrak Corporation

Rentrak Corporation, based in Portland, Oregon, is an information management company serving clients in the media, entertainment, retail and advertising industries. The company's Entertainment Essentials(R) suite of services is redefining media measurement in the digital broadband era. Entertainment Essentials provides customers with near-real-time, actionable insight into performance of content distributed over a wide variety of modern media technologies. Available by license or subscription, each Entertainment Essentials application allows executives to analyze detailed industry-wide and title-specific data to make decisions that enhance the bottom line and provide competitive advantage. For further information, please visit Rentrak's corporate website at Rentrak.com.

Contacts: Rogers & Cowan for Rentrak Corporation
Sallie Olmsted Amanda Bartz
(310) 854-8124 (310) 854-8151
solmsted@rogersandcowan.comabartz@rogersandcowan.com

Source: Rentrak Corporation

CONTACT: Sallie Olmsted, +1-310-854-8124, solmsted@rogersandcowan.com,
or Amanda Bartz, +1-310-854-8151, abartz@rogersandcowan.com, both of Rogers &
Cowan for Rentrak Corporation

Web Site: http://www.rentrak.com/

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