LOS ANGELES, April 26 /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 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                      Amanda Bartz
                (310) 854-8124                      (310) 854-8151
                solmsted@rogersandcowan.com         abartz@rogersandcowan.com

SOURCE Rentrak Corporation

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