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Rentrak Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending March 7, 2010

 

LOS ANGELES, March 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT), today announced the top ten DVD sales and rentals for the prior week based on estimated consumer spending.

According to the company's Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials tracking services, the top ten selling DVDs and the top ten most-rented motion pictures, per data collected for the week ending March 7, 2010 include:

Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs*

RANK

TITLE

STUDIO

WEEKS IN RELEASE

1

2012

Sony

1

2

Where the Wild Things Are

Warner Bros.

1

3

Law Abiding Citizen

Anchor Bay

3

4

Ponyo

Disney

1

5

Couples Retreat

Universal

4

6

The Vampire's Assistant

Universal

2

7

The Hurt Locker

Summit Entertainment

8

8

Inglourious Basterds

Universal

8

9

The Time Traveler's Wife

New Line

4

10

The Box

Warner Bros.

2

*Week ended March 6, 2010


Rentrak Top 10 Renting DVDs

RANK

TITLE

STUDIO

WEEKS IN RELEASE

1

2012

Sony

1

2

Law Abiding Citizen

Overture Films

3

3

Couples Retreat

Universal

4

4

The Box

Warner Bros.

2

5

The Hangover

Warner Bros.

12

6

The Invention Of Lying

Warner Bros.

7

7

The Hurt Locker

Summit Entertainment

8

8

Zombieland

Sony

5

9

The Informant!

Warner Bros.

2

10

Where The Wild Things Are

Warner Bros.

1



© Rentrak Corporation 2010 -Content in Rentrak Home Entertainment updates is produced and/or compiled by Rentrak Corporation and its Home Entertainment 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 home entertainment 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 Retail Essentials®

Retail Essentials measures weekly consumer sales activity on standard DVD and Blu-ray Disc titles in the U.S. brick-and-mortar channel. No other service provides faster access to in-depth market data and weekly estimations of gross consumer spending. Rentrak delivers sell-through data broken down by DVD title, format, category, genre, TV market and more, within 72 hours after the close of each business week. Clients can access current, weekly, and historical title sales data to competitively benchmark industry performance.

About Home Video Essentials®

Home Video Essentials is Rentrak's exclusive point-of-sale (POS) tracking system, which measures title-level performance via rental transactions on over 65,000 DVD and video game properties in the brickandmortar, online, and kiosk channels across North America. Rentrak is the world's largest processor of rental data, tracking in excess of one billion transactions each year from more than 13,700 storefronts within 72 hours after the close of each business week. Clients are able to identify consumer trends, quantify performance, and benchmark findings against the broader business sector.

About Rentrak Corporation

Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ: RENT) is a global digital media measurement and research company, serving the most recognizable companies in the entertainment industry. With a reach across numerous platforms including box office, home entertainment, on-demand and linear television, broadband and mobile, Rentrak is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with additional offices worldwide in Los Angeles, New York City, Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom. For more information on any of Rentrak's services, please visit www.rentrak.com.

Contacts:

Sallie Olmsted/Amanda Bartz


Rentrak Corporation


310-854-8124/8151


SOURCE Rentrak Corporation

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