LOS ANGELES, May 31 /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 May 29 through May 31, 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, May 31, 2009 by Rentrak Theatrical include:

    Rank   Title                               Weekend Gross       Locations
      1    Up                                    $68,200,000           3766
      2    Night At The Museum: Battle
            Smithsonian                          $25,500,000           4101
      3    Drag Me To Hell                       $16,628,000           2508
      4    Terminator Salvation                  $16,140,000           3602
      5    Star Trek                             $12,800,000           3507
      6    Angels & Demons                       $11,200,000           3464
      7    Dance Flick                            $4,900,000           2459
      8    X-Men Origins: Wolverine               $3,900,000           2263
      9    The Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past         $1,905,000           1450
     10    Obsessed                                 $665,000            679
     11    The Brothers Bloom                       $652,000            148
     12    The Soloist                              $500,000            412

    Weekend of 05/29/09 to 05/31/09
    (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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