Rentrak Announces Worldwide Box Office Results For Weekend Of December 2, 2012

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Dec 02, 2012, 03:56 ET

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT), the global leader in box office measurement, today announced the worldwide weekend box office estimates for the weekend of December 2, 2012 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 President of Theatrical Worldwide, Ron Giambra commented, "Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 is the No. 1 film in the world for the third consecutive weekend with an estimated weekend gross of $66.2 million from 74 markets. The film surpassed the $700 million mark worldwide this weekend and now stands at $702.4 million."

The top-12 domestic weekend box office estimates listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, December 2, 2012 are below.

Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 - Lionsgate - $17.4M
Skyfall - Sony - $17.0M
Lincoln - Disney - $13.5M
Rise Of The Guardians - Paramount - $13.5M
Life Of Pi - 20th Century Fox - $12.0M
Wreck-It Ralph - Disney - $7.0M
Killing Them Softly - The Weinstein Company - $7.0M
Red Dawn - FilmDistrict - $6.5M
Flight - Paramount - $4.5M
Collection, The - LD Entertainment - $3.4M
Silver Linings Playbook - The Weinstein Company - $3.3M
Anna Karenina - Focus Features - $2.2M

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
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2	66,210,000	48,800,000	17,410,000	702,392,504	447,800,000	254,592,504	MUL	74	LGF
Rise Of The Guardians	53,500,000	40,000,000	13,500,000	105,947,253	57,000,000	48,947,253	PAR	56	PAR
Skyfall	51,000,000	34,000,000	17,000,000	869,029,189	623,000,000	246,029,189	SNY	85	SNY
Life Of Pi	33,500,000	21,500,000	12,000,000	109,461,141	61,100,000	48,361,141	FOX	12	FOX
Lincoln	13,509,000	-	13,509,000	83,698,000	-	83,698,000	DIS	1	DIS
Wreck-It Ralph	8,520,000	1,500,000	7,020,000	202,257,000	44,000,000	158,257,000	DIS	22	DIS
Killing Them Softly	7,700,000	700,000	7,000,000	21,700,000	14,700,000	7,000,000	MUL	1	TWC
Red Dawn	7,050,000	500,000	6,550,000	31,847,708	525,000	31,322,708	MUL	4	FMD
Argo	6,125,000	4,100,000	2,025,000	157,005,417	56,000,000	101,005,417	WB	50	WB
26 Years	5,200,000	5,200,000	-	5,300,000	5,300,000	-	INV	1	-
Silver Linings Playbook	4,641,000	1,300,000	3,341,000	15,690,981	4,700,000	10,990,981	MUL	3	TWC
Flight	4,540,000	-	4,540,000	81,526,836	-	81,526,836	PAR	1	PAR
Hotel Transylvania	3,500,000	3,500,000	-	296,355,525	152,800,000	143,555,525	SNY	57	SNY
Collection, The	3,409,224	-	3,409,224	3,409,224	-	3,409,224	MUL	1	LD

*Territory is a movie studio term for regions of the world consisting of various countries

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