Rentrak Announces Box Office Numbers For Weekend Of December 4, 2009

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ: RENT), today announced the weekend theatrical box office numbers for the weekend period of December 4 through December 6, 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, December 6, 2009 include:

  Rank Title            Distributor    Weekend Gross  Cume         Locations
  ---- -----            -----------    -------------  ----         ---------
     1 The Blind Side   Warner Bros.     20,440,000   129,264,378       3326
   --- --------------   ------------     ----------   -----------       ----
     2 The Twilight     Summit
       Saga: New Moon   Entertainment    15,704,000   255,639,424       4124
   --- --------------   -------------    ----------   -----------       ----
     3 Brothers         Lionsgate         9,700,000     9,700,000       2088
   --- --------         ---------         ---------     ---------       ----
     4 Disney's A
       Christmas Carol  Disney            7,520,000   115,006,087       2546
   --- ---------------  ------            ---------   -----------       ----
     5 Old Dogs         Disney            6,901,000    33,933,120       3425
   --- --------         ------            ---------    ----------       ----
     6 Armored          Sony              6,600,000     6,600,000       1915
   --- -------          ----              ---------     ---------       ----
     7 2012             Sony              6,600,000   148,786,821       3220
   --- ----             ----              ---------   -----------       ----
     8 Ninja Assassin   Warner Bros.      5,030,000    29,790,497       2503
   --- --------------   ------------      ---------    ----------       ----
     9 Planet 51        Sony              4,300,000    33,966,003       2904
   --- ---------        ----              ---------    ----------       ----
    10 Everybody's Fine Miramax           4,027,000     4,027,000       2133
   --- ---------------- -------           ---------     ---------       ----
    11 Fantastic
       Mr. Fox          20th Century Fox  2,885,000    14,051,164       2034
   --- ---------        ----------------  ---------    ----------       ----
    12 Precious         Lionsgate         2,310,000    36,279,935        664
   --- --------         ---------         ---------    ----------        ---

  Weekend of 12/04/09 to 12/06/09



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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.

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