Rentrak Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending December 4, 2011

Rentrak Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending December 4, 2011

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ: RENT) today announced the top ten DVD sales and rentals for the prior week based on estimated consumer spending.

According to the company's Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials tracking services, the top ten selling DVDs and the top ten most-rented motion pictures, per data collected for the week ending December 4, 2011 include:

Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs*
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RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN RELEASE
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1 The Smurfs Sony (NYSE: SNE) 1
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2 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) 4
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3 Cars 2 Disney (NYSE: DIS) 5
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4 Friends with Benefits Sony (NYSE: SNE) 1
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5 30 Minutes or Less Sony (NYSE: SNE) 1
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6 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Disney (NYSE: DIS) 7
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7 Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas Special FOX (NASDAQ: NWS) 2
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8 Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas: The Play Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) 2
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9 The Original Christmas Classics VEU 9
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10 The Lion King Disney (NYSE: DIS) 9
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*Week ended December 3, 2011

Rentrak Top 10 Renting DVDs
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RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN RELEASE
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1 Super 8 Paramount (NYSE: VIA.A and VIA.B) 2
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2 30 Minutes or Less Sony (NYSE: SNE) 1
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3 Friends with Benefits Sony (NYSE: SNE) 1
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4 Our Idiot Brother Anchor Bay (NASDAQ: LSTZA)/The Weinstein Co. 1
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5 The Smurfs (2011) Sony (NYSE: SNE) 1
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6 Conan the Barbarian (2011) Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) 2
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7 The Change-Up Universal (NYSE: GE) 4
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8 Crazy, Stupid, Love Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) 5
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9 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) 4
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10 Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) Paramount (NYSE: VIA.A and VIA.B) 6
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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 24 million by-mail/online disc rental subscribers within 72 hours 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 a global digital media measurement and research company, serving the most recognizable companies in the entertainment industry. With a reach across numerous platforms including box office, multi-screen television, and home video, Rentrak has developed more efficient metrics to be used as database currencies for the evaluation and selling of media. Rentrak is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with additional U.S. and international offices. For more information on Rentrak, please visit www.rentrak.com.

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