LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT), today announced the weekend theatrical box office estimates for the weekend period of November 20 through November 22, 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 22, 2009 include:

                                         Weekend
Rank  Title              Distributor      Gross       Cume      Locations

1    The Twilight Saga:  Summit
      New Moon            Entertainment 140,700,000 140,700,000    4024
2    The Blind Side      Warner Bros.    34,510,000  34,510,000    3110
3    2012                Sony            26,500,000 108,221,057    3408
4    Planet 51           Sony            12,600,000  12,600,000    3035
5    Disney's A
      Christmas Carol    Disney          12,230,000  79,790,978    3578
6    Precious: Based on
      the Novel 'Push'   Lionsgate       11,007,500  21,403,249     629
7    The Men Who Stare
      At Goats           Overture Films   2,773,000  27,624,058    2056
8    Couples Retreat     Universal        1,951,680 105,000,635    1712
9    The Fourth Kind     Universal        1,730,400  23,343,205    1648
10   Law Abiding
      Citizen            Overture Films   1,615,000  70,027,140    1327
11   Michael Jackson's
      This Is It         Sony             1,575,000  70,216,128    1640
12   Pirate Radio        Focus Features   1,448,919   5,172,395     883

Weekend of 11/20/09 to 11/22/09

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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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