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

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September 30, 2012 03:13 PM EDT
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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.

  1. Hotel Transylvania - Sony - $43.0M
  2. Looper - Sony - $21.2M
  3. End Of Watch - Open Road - $8.0M
  4. Trouble with the Curve - Warner Bros. - $7.5M
  5. House At The End Of The Street - Relativity Media - $7.2M
  6. Pitch Perfect - Universal - $5.2M
  7. Finding Nemo - Disney - $4.1M
  8. Resident Evil: Retribution - Sony - $3.0M
  9. Master, The - The Weinstein Company - $2.7M
  10. Won't Back Down - 20th Century Fox - $2.7M
  11. Dredd - Lionsgate - $2.3M
  12. 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

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

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About Rentrak Corporation:
Rentrak (NASDAQ: RENT) is a global digital media measurement and research company, serving the most recognizable companies in the entertainment industry. With a reach across numerous platforms including box office, multi-screen television, and home video, Rentrak has developed more efficient metrics to be used as database currencies for the evaluation and selling of media. Rentrak is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with additional U.S. and international offices. For more information on Rentrak, please visit www.rentrak.com.

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