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Professional Motion Picture Production and Distribution NEWS
Rentrak Theatrical Announces Box Office Numbers for Weekend of August 21, 2009
By Staff
posted Aug 24, 2009, 17:57 |
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(Los Angeles, CA) Rentrak Theatrical, a business unit of Rentrak Corporation
(Nasdaq: RENT), announces the weekend theatrical box office estimates for the
weekend period of August 21 through August 23, 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, August 23, 2009 by Rentrak Theatrical include:
Rank |
Title |
Weekend Gross |
Locations |
1 |
Inglourious Basterds |
$37,602,000 |
3165 |
2 |
District 9 |
$18,900,000 |
3050 |
3 |
GI Joe |
$12,500,000 |
3953 |
4 |
The Time Traveler's Wife |
$10,025,000 |
2988 |
5 |
Julie & Julia |
$9,000,000 |
2463 |
6 |
Shorts |
$6,700,000 |
3105 |
7 |
G-Force |
4,205,000 |
2561 |
8 |
Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince |
$3,515,000 |
1936 |
9 |
The Ugly Truth |
$2,850,000 |
1971 |
10 |
Post Grad |
$2,800,000 |
1959 |
11 |
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard |
$2,650,000 |
1849 |
12 |
Ponyo |
$2,429,000 |
927 |
Weekend of 08/21/09 to 08/23/09 (C) Rentrak Corporation 2009 -- Content in
Rentrak Theatrical box office updates is produced and/or compiled by Rentrak
Corporation and its Box Office Essentials(R) theatrical box office data collection
and analytical service, and is covered by provisions of the Copyright Act. The
material presented herein is intended to be available for public use. You may
reproduce the content of the box office updates in any format or medium without
first obtaining permission, subject to the following requirements: (1) the material
must be reproduced accurately; and (2) any publication or issuance of any part
of the material to others must acknowledge Rentrak Corporation as the source
of the material.
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.
www.rentrak.com
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