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Rentrak Theatrical Announces Box Office Numbers For Weekend of April 24, 2009

By Sallie Olmsted and Amanda Bartz
posted Apr 30, 2009, 14:21

(Los Angeles) Rentrak Theatrical, a business unit of Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT), announced the weekend theatrical box office estimates for the weekend period of April 24 through April 26, 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, April 26, 2009 by Rentrak Theatrical include:

Rank Title Weekend Gross Locations
1 Obsessed $28,500,000 2541
2 17 Again $11,665,000 3255
3 Fighting $11,441,095  2309
4 The Soloist $9,715,000 2024
5 Earth $8,554,000   1804
6 Monsters vs. Aliens $8,524,000 3358
7 State of Play $6,891,185   2807
8 Hannah Montana The Movie $6,372,000 3231
9 Fast & Furious $6,062,200  3566
10 Crank High Voltage $2,400,000   2223
11 I Love You, Man $1,936,000  1563
12 Knowing $1,935,000   1860


Weekend of 04/24/09 to 04/26/09 (C) 2009 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, (310) 854-8124, solmsted[at]rogersandcowan[dot]com
Amanda Bartz, (310) 854-8151, abartz[at]rogersandcowan[dot]com