LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Rentrak Theatrical, a business unit of Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT), today announced the weekend theatrical box office estimates for the weekend period of September 25 through September 27, 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, September 27, 2009 by Rentrak Theatrical include:

    Rank Title                     Distributor         Weekend Gross Locations
    ---- -----                     -----------         ------------- ---------

      1 Cloudy With A Chance Of    Sony                 $24,600,000     3119
         Meatballs

      2 Surrogates                 Disney               $15,000,000     2951

      3 Fame                       MGM                  $10,033,000     3096

      4 Informant, The             Warner Bros.          $6,915,000     2505

      5 Tyler Perry's I Can Do     Lionsgate             $4,750,000     2120
         Bad All By Myself

      6 Pandorum                   Overture Films        $4,408,000     2506

      7 Love Happens               Universal             $4,327,440     1898

      8 Jennifer's Body            20th Century Fox      $3,500,000     2738

      9 9                          Focus Features        $2,832,053     2025

     10 Inglourious Basterds       The Weinstein Company
                                    (N/A)                $2,722,000     1960

     11 All About Steve            20th Century Fox      $2,300,000     1965

     12 Julie & Julia              Sony                  $1,200,000     1328
     

Weekend of 09/25/09 to 09/27/09

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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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