Rentrak Announces Box Office Numbers for Weekend of November 20, 2009

Rentrak Announces Box Office Numbers for Weekend of November 20, 2009

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ:RENT) , today announced the weekend theatrical box office estimates for the weekend period of November 20 through November 22, 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 22, 2009 include:

Weekend Rank Title Distributor Gross Cume Locations

1 The Twilight Saga: Summit

New Moon Entertainment 140,700,000 140,700,000 4024 2 The Blind Side Warner Bros. 34,510,000 34,510,000 3110 3 2012 Sony 26,500,000 108,221,057 3408 4 Planet 51 Sony 12,600,000 12,600,000 3035 5 Disney's A

Christmas Carol Disney 12,230,000 79,790,978 3578 6 Precious: Based on

the Novel 'Push' Lionsgate 11,007,500 21,403,249 629 7 The Men Who Stare

At Goats Overture Films 2,773,000 27,624,058 2056 8 Couples Retreat Universal 1,951,680 105,000,635 1712 9 The Fourth Kind Universal 1,730,400 23,343,205 1648 10 Law Abiding

Citizen Overture Films 1,615,000 70,027,140 1327 11 Michael Jackson's

This Is It Sony 1,575,000 70,216,128 1640 12 Pirate Radio Focus Features 1,448,919 5,172,395 883

Weekend of 11/20/09 to 11/22/09

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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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