Rentrak Theatrical Announces Final Weekend Box Office Results for Week of May 4,...

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Rentrak Theatrical Announces Final Weekend Box Office Results for Week of May
4, 2008

LOS ANGELES, May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rentrak Theatrical, a
business unit of Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT), today announced the final
weekend theatrical box office results for the weekend period of May 2 through
May 4, 2008 according to the company's Box Office Essentials(TM) theatrical
box office data collection and analytical service.
    The twelve top producing motion pictures for the weekend, per data
collected by Rentrak Theatrical include:
    Rank Title                                 Weekend Gross     Locations
    1    Iron Man                               102,118,668         4105
    2    Made Of Honor                           14,756,850         2729
    3    Baby Mama                               10,065,010         2548
    4    Harold And Kumar Escape From Guantanamo  6,114,373         2545
    5    Forgetting Sarah Marshall                6,059,920         2872
    6    Forbidden Kingdom, The                   4,187,897         2960
    7    Nim's Island                             2,677,543         2478
    8    Prom Night                               2,403,313         2434
    9    21                                       2,002,471         2242
    10   88 Minutes                               1,545,084         1765
    11   Horton Hears A Who                       1,337,562         1463
    12   Deception                                  883,417         2001

    Week of 05/02/2008 to 05/08/2008

    About Box Office Essentials
    Box Office Essentials provides each studio with password-protected,
real-time, web browser-based and 24x7 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, 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,
advertising and manufacturing industries.  The company's Entertainment
Essentials(TM) 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 Web site at
http://www.rentrak.com.
     Contacts:  Sallie Olmsted/Amanda Bartz
                Rentrak Corporation
                310-854-8124/8151


SOURCE  Rentrak Corporation

Sallie Olmsted, +1-310-854-8124, or Amanda Bartz, +1-310-854-8151, both of
Rentrak Corporation

 

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