LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT), today announced the weekend theatrical box office numbers for the weekend period of December 4 through December 6, 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, December 6, 2009 include:
Rank Title Distributor Weekend Gross Cume Locations
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1 The Blind Side Warner Bros. 20,440,000 129,264,378 3326
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2 The Twilight Summit
Saga: New Moon Entertainment 15,704,000 255,639,424 4124
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3 Brothers Lionsgate 9,700,000 9,700,000 2088
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4 Disney's A
Christmas Carol Disney 7,520,000 115,006,087 2546
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5 Old Dogs Disney 6,901,000 33,933,120 3425
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6 Armored Sony 6,600,000 6,600,000 1915
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7 2012 Sony 6,600,000 148,786,821 3220
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8 Ninja Assassin Warner Bros. 5,030,000 29,790,497 2503
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9 Planet 51 Sony 4,300,000 33,966,003 2904
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10 Everybody's Fine Miramax 4,027,000 4,027,000 2133
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11 Fantastic
Mr. Fox 20th Century Fox 2,885,000 14,051,164 2034
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12 Precious Lionsgate 2,310,000 36,279,935 664
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Weekend of 12/04/09 to 12/06/09
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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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