LOS ANGELES, Oct. 4 /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 October 2 through October 4, 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, October 4, 2009 by Rentrak Theatrical include:

    Rank   Title                       Distributor  Weekend Gross  Locations
    ----   -----                       -----------  -------------  ---------
      1    Zombieland                  Sony            25,000,000  3036
      -    ----------                  ----            ----------  ----
      2    Cloudy With A Chance Of     Sony
            Meatballs                                  16,700,000  2977
      -    -----------------------     -----------     ----------  ----
      3    Toy Story / Toy Story 2     Disney          12,500,000  1745
      -    -----------------------     ------          ----------  ----
      4    Invention Of Lying, The     Warner Bros.     7,350,000  1707
      -    -----------------------     ------------     ---------  ----
      5    Surrogates                  Disney           7,344,000  2951
      -    ----------                  ------           ---------  ----
      6    Capitalism:  A Love Story   Overture Films   4,850,000   962
      -    -------------------------   --------------   ---------   ---
      7    Whip It                     Fox Searchlight  4,850,000  1720
      -    -------                     ---------------  ---------  ----
      8    Fame                        MGM              4,750,000  3133
      -    ----                        ---              ---------  ----
      9    Informant, The              Warner Bros.     3,800,000  2425
      -    --------------              ------------     ---------  ----
     10    Love Happens                Universal        2,777,290  1921
     --    ------------                ---------        ---------  ----
     11    Tyler Perry's I Can Do      Lionsgate
            Bad All By Myself                           2,670,000  1569
     --    ----------------------      ---------------  ---------  ----
     12    Pandorum                    Overture Films   1,923,000  2506
     --    --------                    --------------   ---------  ----

Weekend of 10/02/09 to 10/04/09

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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® 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.

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