Rentrak Announces Box Office Numbers for Weekend of November 13, 2009

Rentrak Announces Box Office Numbers for Weekend of November 13, 2009

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ:RENT) , today announced the weekend theatrical box office estimates for the weekend period of November 13 through November 15, 2009 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, November 15, 2009 include:

   Rank Title                    Distributor  Weekend Gross  Cume   Locations   ---- -----                    -----------  -------------  ----   ---------      1 2012                         Sony         65,000,000  65,000,000 3404     - ----                         ----         ----------  ---------- ----     2 Disney's A Christmas Carol   Disney       22,325,000  63,288,844 3683     - --------------------------   ------       ----------  ---------- ----     3 Men Who Stare At Goats, The  Overture                                     Films        6,200,000  23,376,297 2453     - ---------------------------  --------      ---------  ---------- ----     4 Precious: Based on the Novel Lionsgate        "Push"                                    6,090,000   8,914,552  174     - ---------------------------- ---------     ---------   ---------  ---     5 Michael Jackson's This Is It Sony          5,100,000  67,211,376 3037     - ---------------------------- ----          ---------  ---------- ----     6 The Fourth Kind              Universal     4,743,750  20,588,045 2530     - ---------------              ---------     ---------  ---------- ----     7 Couples Retreat              Universal     4,252,755 102,133,145 2509     - ---------------              ---------     --------- ----------- ----     8 Paranormal Activity          Paramount     4,200,000 103,846,767 2712     - -------------------          ---------     --------- ----------- ----     9 Law Abiding Citizen          Overture                                     Films        3,932,000  67,326,125 2071     - ---------------------------- ---------     ---------  ---------- ----    10 The Box,                     Warner Bros.  3,185,000  13,206,254 2635    -- --------                     ------------  ---------  ---------- ----    11 Pirate Radio                 Focus                                     Features     2,869,377   2,869,377  882    -- ---------------------------- ------------  ---------   ---------  ---    12 Where The Wild Things Are    Warner Bros.  2,415,000  73,437,273 2090    -- -------------------------    ------------  ---------  ---------- ----   Weekend of 11/13/09 to 11/15/09   

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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.com        abartz@rogersandcowan.com  

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CONTACT: Sallie Olmsted, +1-310-854-8124, solmsted@rogersandcowan.com,
or Amanda Bartz, +1-310-854-8151, abartz@rogersandcowan.com, both of Rogers &
Cowan for Rentrak Corporation

Web Site: http://www.rentrak.com/

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