Sunday, February 22, 2009

Rentrak Theatrical Announces Box Office Estimates for Weekend of February 22, 2009

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22 /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 20 through February 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 9:30AM Pacific on Sunday, February 22, 2009 by Rentrak Theatrical include:



    Rank Title                                Weekend Gross     Locations
    1    Tyler Perry's Madea Goes To Jail     $41,120,000          2032
    2    Taken                                $11,400,000          3102
    3    Coraline                             $11,031,035          2155
    4    He's Just Not That Into You           $8,540,000          3050
    5    Slumdog Millionaire                   $8,050,000          2244
    6    Friday The 13th                       $7,825,000          3105
    7    Confessions of a Shopaholic           $7,019,000          2507
    8    Paul Blart Mall Cop                   $7,000,000          2835
    9    Fired Up                              $6,000,000          1810
    10   The International                     $4,450,000          2364
    11   Pink Panther 2                        $3,700,000          2658
    12   Gran Torino                           $3,640,000          2030


    Weekend of 02/20/09 to 02/22/09
    (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

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