Rentrak Announces Worldwide Box Office Results For Weekend Of September 30, 2012

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Sep 30, 2012, 03:12 ET

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30, 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 September 30, 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, "Over the weekend, Ice Age: Continental Drift became the highest grossing animated film of all-time at the international box office. Its new cume now stands at $693.9 million."

The top-12 domestic weekend box office estimates listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, September 30, 2012 are below.

Hotel Transylvania - Sony - $43.0M
Looper - Sony - $21.2M
End Of Watch - Open Road - $8.0M
Trouble with the Curve - Warner Bros. - $7.5M
House At The End Of The Street - Relativity Media - $7.2M
Pitch Perfect - Universal - $5.2M
Finding Nemo - Disney - $4.1M
Resident Evil: Retribution - Sony - $3.0M
Master, The - The Weinstein Company - $2.7M
Won't Back Down - 20th Century Fox - $2.7M
Dredd - Lionsgate - $2.3M
Possession, The - Lionsgate - $1.4M

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
Hotel Transylvania	51,100,000	8,100,000	43,000,000	51,100,000	8,100,000	43,000,000	SNY	14	SNY
Looper	29,700,000	8,500,000	21,200,000	29,700,000	8,500,000	21,200,000	MUL	10	SNY
Resident Evil: Retribution	23,700,000	20,700,000	3,000,000	175,704,933	137,000,000	38,704,933	SNY	66	SNY
Ted	9,274,375	9,100,000	174,375	434,117,440	216,000,000	218,117,440	UNI	45	UNI
Masquerade	9,000,000	9,000,000	-	30,000,000	30,000,000	-	CJ	1	CJ
Seigneurs, Les	9,000,000	9,000,000	-	9,000,000	9,000,000	-	WB	1	-
Ice Age: Continental Drift	8,700,000	8,700,000	-	852,596,445	693,900,000	158,696,445	FOX	4	FOX
House At The End Of The Street	8,654,000	1,500,000	7,154,000	26,024,969	3,800,000	22,224,969	MUL	5	REL
Bourne Legacy, The	8,486,920	7,700,000	786,920	224,204,075	112,500,000	111,704,075	UNI	51	UNI
End Of Watch	8,000,265	-	8,000,265	26,168,897	-	26,168,897	MUL	1	OPRD
Trouble with the Curve	7,530,000	-	7,530,000	23,725,962	-	23,725,962	WB	1	WB
Taken 2	6,400,000	6,400,000	-	6,400,000	6,400,000	-	FOX	1	FOX
Madagascar 3	6,250,000	6,100,000	150,000	638,797,174	422,700,000	216,097,174	PAR	29	PAR
Brave	5,329,000	5,200,000	129,000	515,588,000	281,900,000	233,688,000	DIS	56	DIS
Pitch Perfect	5,212,600	-	5,212,600	5,212,600	-	5,212,600	MUL	1	UNI
Finding Nemo	5,166,000	1,100,000	4,066,000	46,675,000	10,200,000	36,475,000	DIS	18	DIS
Hope Springs	3,700,000	3,700,000	-	86,212,231	23,700,000	62,512,231	MUL	12	SNY
Dredd	3,580,000	1,300,000	2,280,000	22,964,607	12,100,000	10,864,607	MUL	13	LGF
Savages	3,300,000	3,300,000	-	61,023,100	13,700,000	47,323,100	UNI	32	UNI
ParaNorman	3,087,369	2,300,000	787,369	86,341,338	32,400,000	53,941,338	UNI	37	FOC

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