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Rentrak Announces Worldwide Box Office Results For Weekend Of Sept. 29, 2013

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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ: RENT), the global leader in box office measurement, today announced the worldwide weekend box office estimates for the weekend of Sept. 29, 2013 as compiled by the company's Box Office Essentials™ and International Box Office Essentials™ theatrical measurement services.

As the trusted standard for all studio box office reporting, Rentrak provides intelligence into overnight theatre-level reporting across the global theatrical market. Coupled with the official reported data, studios are able to analyze admissions and gross results in over 50 territories using Rentrak's suite of products.

Rentrak's President of Theatrical Worldwide, Ron Giambra commented, "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 opens at No. 1 in the world with an estimated weekend gross of $35 million. Also, Despicable Me 2 has crossed the $500 million mark worldwide. Turbo and White House Down have both crossed the $100 million mark overseas.

The top-12 domestic weekend box office estimates listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013 are below.

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 - Sony - $35.0M
Prisoners - Warner Bros. - $11.3M
Rush - Universal - $10.3M
Baggage Claim - Fox Searchlight - $9.3M
Don Jon - Relativity Media - $9.0M
Insidious Chapter 2 - FilmDistrict - $6.7M
Family, The - Relativity Media - $3.7M
Instructions Not Included - Lionsgate - $3.4M
We're The Millers - Warner Bros. - $2.9M
Lee Daniels' The Butler - The Weinstein Company - $2.4M
Enough Said - Fox Searchlight - $2.1M
Battle Of The Year - Sony - $2.0M

Full details regarding the global domestic and international box office results are listed in the table below.

	Weekend BO Estimate (USD)			Weekend Release Cume (USD)			Distributor
Title	Worldwide	Int'l	Domestic	Worldwide	Int'l	Domestic	Int'l	No. of Territories	Domestic
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2	35,000,000	-	35,000,000	35,000,000	-	35,000,000	SNY	1	SNY
Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon	17,000,000	17,000,000	-	17,000,000	17,000,000	-	MUL	5	INDP
Rush	15,913,530	5,600,000	10,313,530	30,574,439	20,000,000	10,574,439	MUL	12	UNI
Prisoners	15,370,000	4,100,000	11,270,000	45,253,932	6,300,000	38,953,932	MUL	23	WB
Insidious Chapter 2	11,647,000	4,900,000	6,747,000	84,744,395	15,200,000	69,544,395	MUL	17	FMDI
Instructions Not Included	11,380,000	8,000,000	3,380,000	64,767,488	26,200,000	38,567,488	VID	2	LGF
Runner Runner	11,200,000	11,200,000	-	11,200,000	11,200,000	-	FOX	38	FOX
We're The Millers	9,965,000	7,100,000	2,865,000	237,818,452	95,400,000	142,418,452	WB	57	WB
Don Jon	9,500,000	500,000	9,000,000	9,500,000	500,000	9,000,000	MUL	5	REL
Baggage Claim	9,300,000	-	9,300,000	9,300,000	-	9,300,000	MUL	1	FSL
Smurfs 2	8,800,000	8,800,000	-	320,683,692	251,100,000	69,583,692	SNY	67	SNY
Planes	8,639,000	7,900,000	739,000	169,061,000	81,400,000	87,661,000	DIS	47	DIS
Elysium	8,500,000	8,000,000	500,000	263,549,062	171,700,000	91,849,062	SNY	57	SNY
2 Guns	7,080,085	6,800,000	280,085	91,796,495	16,800,000	74,996,495	SNY	35	UNI
Conjuring, The	7,000,000	7,000,000	-	297,170,763	160,400,000	136,770,763	WB	58	WB
Blue Jasmine	6,208,003	5,500,000	708,003	40,771,994	10,000,000	30,771,994	MUL	9	SPC
Turbo	6,100,000	6,100,000	-	182,013,412	100,300,000	81,713,412	FOX	13	FOX
White House Down	6,000,000	6,000,000	-	194,403,784	121,300,000	73,103,784	SNY	40	SNY
Riddick	5,716,010	4,100,000	1,616,010	84,765,575	44,700,000	40,065,575	MUL	54	UNI
Face Reader, The	5,000,000	5,000,000	-	51,000,000	51,000,000	-	SHO	1	-
Dragon Ball Z Kami to Kami	5,000,000	5,000,000	-	5,000,000	5,000,000	-	MUL	5	-
Family, The	4,574,000	900,000	3,674,000	36,696,170	5,000,000	31,696,170	MUL	5	REL
Despicable Me 2	4,374,180	3,600,000	774,180	863,456,000	501,700,000	361,756,000	UNI	42	UNI
Lee Daniels' The Butler	4,317,000	1,900,000	2,417,000	118,581,069	8,300,000	110,281,069	MUL	4	TWC
Grown Ups 2	4,300,000	4,300,000	-	231,631,960	100,300,000	131,331,960	SNY	51	SNY
Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters	3,875,000	3,100,000	775,000	183,153,751	117,800,000	65,353,751	FOX	31	FOX

*Territory is a movie studio term for regions of the world consisting of various countries

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