Redbox Announces Top DVD Rentals of 2009 Including Most-Rented Bromance, Chick Flick and Family Films

Redbox Announces Top DVD Rentals of 2009 Including Most-Rented Bromance, Chick Flick and Family Films

More than 350 Million Movies Rented from redbox in 2009

OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill., Dec. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Redbox, the fully-automated DVD rental provider located at the nation's leading grocery, mass, drug and convenience stores, announces the top DVD rentals of 2009. The country's leading DVD rental kiosk operator, redbox, rented more than 350 million DVDs this year. "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" topped the list of the most-rented movies logging more than 4.5 million redbox rentals.

Here is a look at 2009's most popular redbox DVD rentals by category, including most-rented: Chick Flick, Bromance, Tearjerker, Adrenaline Rush and Family Fun films:*

TOP MOVIES
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of 2009
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1. Paul Blart: Mall Cop
2. The Proposal
3. Taken
4. Gran Torino
5. Knowing

TOP BROMANCES
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of 2009
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1. I Love You, Man
2. Year One
3. My Best Friend's Girl
4. Pineapple Express
5. Role Models

TOP ADRENALINE RUSH
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of 2009
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1. Taken
2. Knowing
3. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
4. Obsessed
5. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

TOP CHICK FLICKS
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of 2009
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1. The Proposal
2. Bride Wars
3. He's Just Not That Into You
4. 17 Again
5. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

TOP TEARJERKERS
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of 2009
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1. Gran Torino
2. Marley & Me
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4. Seven Pounds
5. The Soloist

TOP FAMILY FUN
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of 2009
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1. Bedtime Stories
2. Bolt
3. Beverly Hills Chihuahua
4. Up
5. Hotel for Dogs

Redbox makes DVD renting easy, affordable and fun. Located at select McDonald's restaurants, leading grocery and convenience stores, and Walmart and Walgreens locations in select markets, each fully automated redbox kiosk holds 630 DVDs, representing up to 200 of the newest releases. Consumers simply use a touch screen to select their favorite movies, swipe a valid credit or debit card and go. Customers can keep the DVD for as long as they'd like for one low nightly rate, and return it to any one of redbox's more than 19,000 locations nationwide.

For added convenience, customers can reserve a DVD online at www.redbox.com or via an iPhone and pick it up at the redbox location of their choice.

About Redbox

Redbox Automated Retail, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Coinstar, Inc., offers new release DVD rentals through its network of conveniently located, self-service kiosks. Redbox has rented more than 500 million DVDs and is available at more than 19,000 locations nationwide, including select McDonald's restaurants, leading grocery and convenience stores, and Walmart and Walgreens locations in select markets. For more information, visit www.redbox.com.

*Editor's Note: Top movies determined by total number of rentals.

Source: Redbox Automated Retail, LLC

CONTACT: Katie Lundstrom of JSH&A Public Relations, +1-630-916-3033, for
Redbox Automated Retail, LLC

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

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