Rentrak Announces Box Office Numbers for Weekend of January 1, 2010

Rentrak Announces Box Office Numbers for Weekend of January 1, 2010

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ: RENT), today announced the weekend theatrical box office numbers for the weekend period of January 1 through January 3, 2010 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, January 3, 2010 include:

Rank Title Distributor Weekend Gross Cume Locations
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1 Avatar 20th Century Fox 68,300,000 352,111,074 3461
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2 Sherlock Holmes Warner Bros. 38,385,000 140,675,000 3626
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3 Alvin And The
Chipmunks: The
Squeakquel 20th Century Fox 36,600,000 157,345,259 3747
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4 It's Complicated Universal 18,700,135 59,104,880 2897
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5 The Blind Side Warner Bros. 12,650,000 209,052,000 2926
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6 Up In The Air Paramount 11,350,000 45,020,000 1895
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7 The Princess and
the Frog Disney 10,013,000 86,085,000 3328
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8 Did You Hear About
The Morgans? Sony 5,200,000 25,620,000 2718
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The Weinstein
9 Nine Company 4,250,000 14,047,000 1412
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10 Invictus Warner Bros. 4,130,000 30,755,000 2170
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11 The Twilight Summit
Saga: New Moon Entertainment 3,605,000 287,752,522 1627
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12 Brothers Lionsgate 1,290,000 27,510,000 858
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Weekend of 1/01/10 to 1/03/10

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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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