Rentrak Announces Top DVD & Blu-Ray Sales and Rentals for Week Ending March 18, 2012

Rentrak Announces Top DVD & Blu-Ray Sales and Rentals for Week Ending March 18, 2012

LOS ANGELES, March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- RENTRAK CORPORATION (NASDAQ: RENT) today announced the Top-10 DVD & Blu-Ray sales and rentals according to the company's Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials tracking services which is based on estimated consumer spending per data collected for the week ending March 18, 2012.

RENTRAK TOP-10 DVD & BLU-RAY SALES*

RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN
RELEASE
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1 Happy Feet Two Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) 1
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2 Immortals FOX (NASDAQ: NWS) 2
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3 The Adventures of Tintin (2011) Paramount (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) 1
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4 The Descendants FOX (NASDAQ: NWS) 1
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5 Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) 2
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6 Puss in Boots (2011) Paramount (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) 4
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7 Jack and Jill Sony (NYSE: SNE) 2
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8 The Three Musketeers Summit Entertainment 1
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9 Hugo Paramount (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) 3
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10 Footloose (2011) Paramount (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) 2
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*Week ended March 17, 2012

RENTRAK TOP-10 DVD & BLU-RAY RENTALS

RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN
RELEASE
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1 Immortals (2011) FOX (NASDAQ: NWS) 2
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2 The Descendants (2011) FOX (NASDAQ: NWS) 1
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3 Jack And Jill (2011) Sony (NYSE: SNE) 2
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4 Tower Heist (2011) Universal (NYSE: GE) 4
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5 The Three Musketeers (2011) Summit Entertainment 1
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6 The Adventures Of Tintin (2011) Paramount (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) 1
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7 Footloose (2011) Paramount (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) 2
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8 Puss In Boots (2011) DreamWorks (NASDAQ: DWA) 4
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9 Hugo (2011) Paramount (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) 3
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10 My Week With Marilyn Anchor Bay Ent. (a Starz company) (NASDAQ: LSTZA) 1
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About Retail Essentials®
Retail Essentials measures weekly consumer sales activity on standard DVD and Blu-ray Disc titles in the U.S. brick-and-mortar channel. No other service provides faster access to in-depth market data and weekly estimations of gross consumer spending. Rentrak delivers sell-through data broken down by DVD title, format, category, genre, TV market and more, within 72 hours after the close of each business week. Clients can access current, weekly, and historical title sales data to competitively benchmark industry performance.

About Home Video Essentials®
Home Video Essentials is Rentrak's exclusive rental point-of-sale (POS) tracking system, which calculates title-level performance via rental transactions on over 65,000 DVD and video game properties in the brick?and?mortar, by-mail/online subscription and kiosk channels across North America. Rentrak is the world's largest processor of rental data, measuring in excess of one billion transactions each year from more than 5,000 storefronts, over 40,000 kiosks and over 24 million by-mail/online disc rental subscribers within 72 hours after the close of each business week. Clients are able to identify consumer trends, quantify performance, and benchmark findings against the broader business sector.

About Rentrak Corporation
Rentrak (NASDAQ: RENT) is a global digital media measurement and research company, serving the most recognizable companies in the entertainment industry. With a reach across numerous platforms including box office, multi-screen television, and home video, Rentrak has developed more efficient metrics to be used as database currencies for the evaluation and selling of media. Rentrak is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with additional U.S. and international offices. For more information on Rentrak, please visit www.rentrak.com.

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