Rentrak Announces Top 20 Digital Movie Purchases & Rentals for Week Ending October 5, 2014

Rentrak Announces Top 20 Digital Movie Purchases & Rentals for Week Ending October 5, 2014

PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Rentrak (NASDAQ: RENT), the leader in precisely measuring movies and TV everywhere, today announced the top 20 digital movie purchases and rentals based on consumer transaction rate. The report includes Internet Video on Demand (iVOD) and electronic sell-through (EST), for both standard-definition and digital HD movie purchases and rentals.

According to the company's Digital Download Essentials Industry(TM) service, the top 20 purchased and rented movies, per data collected from Sept. 29 - Oct. 5, 2014, are below.

Rentrak Top Twenty Digital Movie Purchases and Rentals*:


RANK TITLE STUDIO
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1 Transformers - Age of Extinction (2014) Paramount (NYSE: VIA & VIA.B)
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2 X-Men: Days of Future Past Fox
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3 Godzilla (2014) Warner (NYSE: TWX)
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4 Fault In Our Stars, The Fox
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5 Mr. Peabody & Sherman Fox
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6 Captain America - The Winter Soldier Disney (NYSE: DIS)
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7 Divergent Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF)
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8 Blended (2014) Warner (NYSE: TWX)
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9 Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow Warner (NYSE: TWX)
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10 Third Person Sony (NYSE: SNE)
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11 Draft Day Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF)
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12 Other Woman, The Fox
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13 Think Like A Man Too Sony (NYSE: SNE)
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14 Good People (2014) Millennium
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15 Two Night Stand (2014) eOne (Phase 4)
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16 Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Sony (NYSE: SNE)
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17 Fed Up RADiUS-TWC
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18 Lego Movie, The Warner (NYSE: TWX)
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19 Frozen (2013) Disney (NYSE: DIS)
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20 Horns RADiUS-TWC
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* Excludes NBC Universal and non-participating Independent distributors.

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About Digital Download Essentials Industry(TM)
Rentrak's Digital Download Essentials Industry service gathers and aggregates information from all leading digital licensees on purchased and rented digital content to give participating content providers (i.e., major movie studios, independent distributors, TV networks, etc.) the ability to compare the performance of their electronic sell-through (EST) and Internet Video on Demand (iVOD) content to the rest of the industry in the U.S. and around the world.

About Rentrak
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 Rentrak.com.

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