Rentrak Announces Top DVD & Blu-ray Sales And Rentals For Week Ending May 26, 2013

Rentrak Announces Top DVD & Blu-ray Sales And Rentals For Week Ending May 26, 2013





LOS ANGELES, June 3, 2013 /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 May 26, 2013.

RENTRAK TOP-10 DVD & BLU-RAY SALES*


RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN RELEASE
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1 True Blood: The Complete
Fifth Season Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) 1
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2 The Last Stand (2013) Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) 1
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3 Parker Sony (NYSE: SNE) 1
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4 Beautiful Creatures Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) 1
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5 Side Effects Universal (NYSE: GE) 1
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6 Safe Haven FOX (NASDAQ: NWS) 3
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7 Cloud Atlas Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) 2
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8 LEGO Batman: The Movie -DC
Super Heroes Unite Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) 1
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9 Dexter: The Complete Paramount (NYSE: VIA and
Seventh Season VIA.B) 2
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10 Jack Reacher Paramount (NYSE: VIA and
VIA.B) 3
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*Week ended May 25, 2013



RENTRAK TOP-10 DVD & BLU-RAY RENTALS


RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN RELEASE
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1 Jack Reacher Paramount (NYSE: VIA and
VIA.B) 3
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2 Silver Linings Playbook Anchor Bay/Starz (NASDAQ:
STRZA) 4
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3 The Last Stand (2013) Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) 1
--- -------------------- -------------------- ---

4 Parker Sony (NYSE: SNE) 1
--- ------ --------------- ---

5 The Guilt Trip Paramount (NYSE: VIA and
VIA.B) 4
--- -------------- ------------------------- ---

6 Django Unchained (2012) Anchor Bay/Starz (NASDAQ:
STRZA) 6
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7 Gangster Squad** Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) 5
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8 This Is 40** Universal (NYSE: GE) 10
--- ----------- ------------------- ---

9 A Haunted House (2013)** Universal (NYSE: GE) 5
--- ----------------------- ------------------- ---

10 Texas Chainsaw Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) 2
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**Titles have delayed availability in certain rental outlets



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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 9 million by-mail/online disc rental subscribers 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 the entertainment and marketing industries' premier provider of worldwide consumer viewership information, precisely measuring actual viewing behavior of movies and TV everywhere. Using our proprietary intelligence and technology, combined with advanced demographics, only Rentrak is the census currency for VOD and Movies. Rentrak provides the stable and robust audience measurement services that movie, television and advertising professionals across the globe have come to rely on to better deliver their business goals and more precisely target advertising across numerous platforms including box office, multiscreen television and home video. For more information on Rentrak, please visit www.rentrak.com

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Sallie Olmsted Amanda Bialek

(310) 854-8124 (310) 854-8151

solmsted@rogersandcowan.com abialek@rogersandcowan.com


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