Rentrak Theatrical Announces Box Office Numbers for Weekend of August 21, 2009

Rentrak Theatrical Announces Box Office Numbers for Weekend of August 21, 2009

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23 /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 August 21 through August 23, 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 Sunday, August 23, 2009 by Rentrak Theatrical include:

Rank Title Weekend Gross Locations
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1 Inglourious Basterds $37,602,000 3165
2 District 9 $18,900,000 3050
3 GI Joe $12,500,000 3953
4 The Time Traveler's Wife $10,025,000 2988
5 Julie & Julia $9,000,000 2463
6 Shorts $6,700,000 3105
7 G-Force $4,205,000 2561
8 Harry Potter And The Half Blood
Prince $3,515,000 1936
9 The Ugly Truth $2,850,000 1971
10 Post Grad $2,800,000 1959
11 The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard $2,650,000 1849
12 Ponyo $2,429,000 927

Weekend of 08/21/09 to 08/23/09

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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 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 for Rentrak
Corporation

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

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