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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- RENTRAK CORPORATION (NASDAQ: RENT) today announced the Top-10 DVD & Blu-ray sales and rentals according to the company's Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials tracking services which are based on estimated consumer spending per data collected for the week ending February 3, 2013.

RENTRAK TOP-10 DVD & BLU-RAY SALES*

RANK

TITLE

STUDIO

WEEKS IN RELEASE

1

Hotel Transylvania

Sony (NYSE: SNE)

1

2

Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey - Season 3

PBS

1

3

Taken 2

FOX (NASDAQ :NWS)

3

4

Paranormal Activity 4

Paramount (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B)

1

5

End of Watch

Universal (NYSE: GE)

2

6

Seven Psychopaths

Sony (NYSE: SNE)

1

7

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2

Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX)

1

8

Pitch Perfect

Universal (NYSE: GE)

7

9

The Cold Light of Day

Summit Entertainment

1

10

Frankenweenie

Disney (NYSE: DIS)

4

*Week ended February 2, 2013

RENTRAK TOP-10 DVD & BLU-RAY RENTALS

RANK

TITLE

STUDIO

WEEKS IN RELEASE

1

Hotel Transylvania

Sony (NYSE: SNE)

1

2

Ted (2012)**

Universal (NYSE: GE)

8

3

Seven Psychopaths

Sony (NYSE: SNE)

1

4

Looper (2012)

Sony (NYSE: SNE)

5

5

The Bourne Legacy**

Universal (NYSE: GE)

8

6

Paranormal Activity 4

Paramount (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B)

1

7

Pitch Perfect (2012)**

Universal (NYSE: GE)

7

8

Ice Age: Continental Drift**

FOX (NASDAQ: NWS)

8

9

The Dark Knight Rises**

Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX)

9

10

Trouble With The Curve**

Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX)

7

**Titles have delayed availability in certain rental outlets

©Rentrak Corporation and its Home Entertainment data collection and analytical service are covered by provisions of the Copyright Act.  The material presented herein is intended to be available for public use.  You may reproduce the content of the home entertainment updates in any format or medium without first obtaining permission, subject to the following requirements: (1) the material must be reproduced accurately; and (2) any publication or issuance of any part of the material to others must acknowledge Rentrak Corporation as the source of the material.

About Retail Essentials®
Retail Essentials measures weekly consumer sales activity on standard DVD and Blu-ray Disc titles in the U.S. brick-and-mortar channel. No other service provides faster access to in-depth market data and weekly estimations of gross consumer spending. Rentrak delivers sell-through data broken down by DVD title, format, category, genre, TV market and more, within 72 hours after the close of each business week. Clients can access current, weekly, and historical title sales data to competitively benchmark industry performance.

About Home Video Essentials®
Home Video Essentials is Rentrak's exclusive rental point-of-sale (POS) tracking system, which calculates title-level performance via rental transactions on over 65,000 DVD and video game properties in the brick-and-mortar, by-mail/online subscription and kiosk channels across North America. Rentrak is the world's largest processor of rental data, measuring in excess of one billion transactions each year from more than 5,000 storefronts, over 40,000 kiosks and over 24 million by-mail/online disc rental subscribers within 72 hours after the close of each business week. Clients are able to identify consumer trends, quantify performance, and benchmark findings against the broader business sector.

About Rentrak Corporation
Rentrak (NASDAQ: RENT) is the entertainment and marketing industries' premier provider of worldwide consumer viewership information, precisely measuring actual viewing behavior of movies and TV everywhere. Using our proprietary intelligence and technology, combined with advanced demographics, only Rentrak is the census currency for VOD and Movies.  Rentrak provides the stable and robust audience measurement services that movie, television and advertising professionals across the globe have come to rely on to better deliver their business goals and more precisely target advertising across numerous platforms including box office, multiscreen television and home video. For more information on Rentrak, please visit www.rentrak.com

RENTE

Contacts:

Rogers & Cowan for Rentrak Corporation

Sallie Olmsted

Amanda Bialek

(310) 854-8124

(310) 854-8151

solmsted@rogersandcowan.com

abialek@rogersandcowan.com

 

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