Rentrak Theatrical Announces Box Office Numbers for Weekend of May 22, 2009

Rentrak Theatrical Announces Box Office Numbers for Weekend of May 22, 2009

LOS ANGELES, May 24 /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 22 through May 24, 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 24, 2009 by Rentrak Theatrical include:

Rank Title Weekend Gross Locations
1 Night At The Museum: Battle
Smithsonian $53,500,000 4096
2 Terminator Salvation $43,010,000 3530
3 Star Trek $21,951,000 4053
4 Angels & Demons $21,400,000 3527
5 Dance Flick $11,113,000 2450
6 X-Men Origins: Wolverine $7,900,000 3183
7 The Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past $3,720,000 2255
8 Obsessed $2,000,000 1603
9 Monsters vs. Aliens $1,345,000 1434
10 17 Again $1,005,000 1107
11 The Soloist $823,000 654
12 Next Day Air $600,000 542

Weekend of 05/22/09 to 05/24/09
(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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