Rentrak Announces Top DVD & Blu-ray Sales and Rentals for Week Ending Feb. 23, 2014

Rentrak Announces Top DVD & Blu-ray Sales and Rentals for Week Ending Feb. 23, 2014

LOS ANGELES, March 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ: RENT) today announced the Top-10 DVD & Blu-ray Disc sales and rentals according to the company's Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials tracking services which are based on estimated consumer spending per data collected for the week ending Feb. 23, 2014.

RENTRAK TOP-10 DVD & BLU-RAY DISC SALES*:


RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN
RELEASE
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1 Game of Thrones: The
Complete Third Season Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) 1
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2 Ender's Game Summit Ent. (NYSE: LGF) 2
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3 The Jungle Book (Diamond
Edition) Disney (NYSE: DIS) 2
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4 The Best Man Holiday Universal (NASDAQ: CMCSA) 2
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5 Cloudy With a Chance of
Meatballs 2 Sony (NYSE: SNE) 4
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6 Escape Plan Summit Ent. (NYSE: LGF) 3
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7 Free Birds FOX (NASDAQ: FOX) 3
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8 Game of Thrones: The
Complete Second Season Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) 53
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9 Game of Thrones: The
Complete First Season Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) 103
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10 Jackass Presents: Bad Paramount (NASDAQ: VIA &
Grandpa VIAB) 4
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*Week ended Feb. 22, 2014

RENTRAK TOP-10 DVD & BLU-RAY DISC RENTALS:


RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN
RELEASE
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1 Ender's Game Summit Ent. (NYSE: LGF) 2
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2 Riddick** Universal (NASDAQ: CMCSA) 6
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3 Captain Phillips Sony (NYSE: SNE) 5
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4 Last Vegas Sony (NYSE: SNE) 4
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5 Escape Plan Summit Ent. (NYSE: LGF) 3
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6 Jackass Presents: Bad Paramount (NASDAQ: VIA &
Grandpa VIAB) 4
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7 Cloudy With a Chance of
Meatballs 2 Sony (NYSE: SNE) 4
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8 Runner Runner** FOX (NASDAQ: FOX) 7
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9 Carrie (2013)** Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 6
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10 The Family (2013)** FOX (NASDAQ: FOX) 10
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**Titles have delayed availability at 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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