Rentrak Announces Worldwide Box Office Results for Weekend of Dec. 8, 2013

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Dec 08, 2013, 02:11 ET

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 8, 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 Dec. 8, 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 Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian commented, "'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' from Lionsgate continues its ascent in the international arena adding another $44.3 million from a whopping 83 markets plus $27 million in North America. This brings its global total to $673.4 million as it sets its sights on the first installment's $686.5 million worldwide revenue figure. Notably, Disney/Marvel's 'Thor: The Dark World' crossed the $600 million mark this past week at the worldwide box office."

The top-12 domestic weekend box office estimates listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013 are below.

1. Frozen - Disney - $31.6M
2. Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The - Lionsgate - $27.0M
3. Out Of The Furnace - Relativity Media - $5.3M
4. Thor: The Dark World - Disney - $4.7M
5. Delivery Man - Disney - $3.8M
6. Homefront - Open Road - $3.4M
7. Book Thief, The - 20th Century Fox - $2.7M
8. Best Man Holiday, The - Universal - $2.7M
9. Philomena - The Weinstein Company - $2.3M
10. Dallas Buyers Club - Focus Features - $1.5M
11. Last Vegas - CBS Films - $1.3M
12. Gravity - Warner Bros. - $1.2M

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
Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The	71,300,000	44,300,000	27,000,000	673,364,956	336,700,000	336,664,956	MUL	84	LGF
Frozen	62,241,000	30,600,000	31,641,000	190,178,000	55,900,000	134,278,000	DIS	24	DIS
Four 2, The	13,000,000	13,000,000	-	13,000,000	13,000,000	-	MUL	3	-
Gravity	11,940,000	10,700,000	1,240,000	631,515,254	380,000,000	251,515,254	WB	48	WB
No Man's Land	11,000,000	11,000,000	-	11,000,000	11,000,000	-	MUL	1	-
Thor: The Dark World	10,140,000	5,400,000	4,740,000	610,340,000	416,700,000	193,640,000	DIS	72	DIS
White Storm, The	8,000,000	8,000,000	-	21,000,000	21,000,000	-	MUL	5	-
Captain Phillips	6,725,000	6,200,000	525,000	199,315,377	95,800,000	103,515,377	SNY	71	SNY
Carrie	6,000,000	6,000,000	-	73,266,619	38,000,000	35,266,619	SNY	35	SNY
Out Of The Furnace	5,300,000	-	5,300,000	5,327,076	-	5,327,076	MUL	1	REL
Homefront	4,884,000	1,500,000	3,384,000	18,684,000	3,400,000	15,284,000	MUL	10	OPRD
About Time	4,810,140	4,600,000	210,140	63,290,738	48,300,000	14,990,738	UNI	27	UNI
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2	4,275,000	4,100,000	175,000	217,981,165	102,700,000	115,281,165	SNY	41	SNY
Fack Ju Gohte	3,800,000	3,800,000	-	47,000,000	47,000,000	-	CON	2	-
Delivery Man	3,775,000	-	3,775,000	24,799,000	-	24,799,000	DIS	1	DIS
Counselor, The	3,600,000	3,600,000	-	60,770,876	43,900,000	16,870,876	FOX	49	FOX
Last Vegas	3,255,000	2,000,000	1,255,000	68,776,608	8,200,000	60,576,608	MUL	12	CBS
Casse-tete Chinois	3,000,000	3,000,000	-	3,000,000	3,000,000	-	STC	1	-
Book Thief, The	2,700,000	-	2,700,000	12,075,055	-	12,075,055	MUL	1	FOX
Best Man Holiday, The	2,673,015	-	2,673,015	67,238,630	-	67,238,630	UNI	1	UNI
Escape Plan	2,639,000	2,600,000	39,000	122,011,975	97,400,000	24,611,975	MUL	55	LGF

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