LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT), today announced the weekend theatrical box office estimates for the weekend period of November 6 through November 8, 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, November 8, 2009 include:
Rank Title Distributor Weekend Gross Cume Location
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1 Disney's A Disney
Christmas Carol 31,000,000 31,000,000 3683
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2 Michael Jackson's Sony
This Is It 14,000,000 57,855,342 3481
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3 The Men Who Stare Overture Films
At Goats 13,309,000 13,309,000 2443
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4 The Fourth Kind Universal 12,521,285 12,521,285 2527
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5 Paranormal Paramount
Activity 8,600,000 97,429,870 2558
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6 The Box Warner Bros. 7,855,000 7,855,000 2635
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7 Couples Retreat Universal 6,428,250 95,979,760 2857
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8 Law Abiding Overture Films
Citizen 6,172,000 60,872,598 2474
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9 Where The Wild Warner Bros.
Things Are 4,225,000 69,268,335 2756
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10 Astro Boy Summit
Entertainment 2,588,000 15,072,701 1918
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11 Saw VI Lionsgate 2,000,000 26,220,442 2091
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12 The Stepfather Sony 1,900,000 27,515,070 1424
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Weekend of 11/06/09 to 11/08/09
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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