Sunday, February 8, 2009

Rentrak Theatrical Announces Box Office Estimates for Weekend of February 8, 2009

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rentrak Theatrical, a business unit of Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT), today announced the weekend theatrical box office estimates for the weekend period of February 6 through February 8, 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 9:30AM Pacific on Sunday, February 8, 2009 by Rentrak Theatrical include:



    Rank  Title                                  Weekend Gross       Locations

    1     He's Just Not That Into You            $27,465,000         3175
    2     Taken                                  $20,300,000         3184
    3     Coraline                               $16,334,613         2298
    4     Pink Panther 2                         $12,000,000         3243
    5     Paul Blart Mall Cop                    $11,000,000         3169
    6     Push                                   $10,204,000         2313
    7     Slumdog Millionaire                     $7,400,000         1724
    8     Gran Torino                             $7,240,000         2705
    9     The Uninvited                           $6,400,000         2344
    10    Hotel For Dogs                          $5,820,000         2734
    11    New In Town                             $3,300,000         1941
    12    The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button     $2,400,000         1478


    Weekend of 02/6/09 to 02/08/09
    (C) 2008 by Rentrak Corporation

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(R) 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