Rentrak Announces Box Office Numbers for Weekend of December 11, 2009

Rentrak Announces Box Office Numbers for Weekend of December 11, 2009

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ:RENT), today announced the weekend theatrical box office numbers for the weekend period of December 11 through December 13, 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, December 13, 2009 include:

Rank Title Distributor Weekend Gross Cume Locations
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The Princess and the
1 Frog Disney 25,000,000 27,879,870 3434
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2 The Blind Side Warner Bros. 15,450,000 150,211,539 3388
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3 Invictus Warner Bros. 9,085,000 9,085,000 2125
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The Twilight Saga: New Summit
4 Moon Entertainment 8,000,000 267,360,583 3635
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Disney's A Christmas
5 Carol Disney 6,871,000 124,463,907 2402
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6 Brothers Lionsgate 5,000,000 17,401,791 2088
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7 2012 Sony 4,400,000 155,336,840 2838
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8 Old Dogs Disney 4,396,000 39,982,501 3090
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9 Armored Sony 3,500,000 11,746,521 1919
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10 Ninja Assassin Warner Bros. 2,710,000 34,307,291 2100
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11 Up In The Air Paramount 2,450,000 4,038,283 72
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12 Planet 51 Sony 2,300,000 37,175,368 2570
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Weekend of 12/11/09 to 12/13/09

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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,
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Cowan for Rentrak Corporation

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

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