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
    ----  -----          ----------- ------------- ----         --------
    1  Disney's A        Disney
        Christmas Carol                 31,000,000 31,000,000      3683
    -  ----------------  -----------    ---------- ----------      ----
    2  Michael Jackson's Sony
        This Is It                      14,000,000 57,855,342      3481
    -  ----------------- -----------    ---------- ----------      ----
    3  The Men Who Stare Overture Films
        At Goats                        13,309,000 13,309,000      2443
    -  ----------------- -------------- ---------- ----------      ----
    4  The Fourth Kind   Universal      12,521,285 12,521,285      2527
    -  ---------------   ---------      ---------- ----------      ----
    5  Paranormal        Paramount
        Activity                         8,600,000 97,429,870      2558
    -  ----------------- --------------  --------- ----------      ----
    6  The Box           Warner Bros.    7,855,000  7,855,000      2635
    -  -------           ------------    ---------  ---------      ----
    7  Couples Retreat   Universal       6,428,250 95,979,760      2857
    -  ---------------   ---------       --------- ----------      ----
    8  Law Abiding       Overture Films
        Citizen                          6,172,000 60,872,598      2474
    -  ----------------- --------------  --------- ----------      ----
    9  Where The Wild    Warner Bros.
        Things Are                       4,225,000 69,268,335      2756
    -  ----------------- --------------  --------- ----------      ----
    10 Astro Boy         Summit
                          Entertainment  2,588,000 15,072,701      1918
    -- ----------------- --------------  --------- ----------      ----
    11 Saw VI            Lionsgate       2,000,000 26,220,442      2091
    -- ------            ---------       --------- ----------      ----
    12 The Stepfather    Sony            1,900,000 27,515,070      1424
    -- --------------    ----            --------- ----------      ----

    Weekend of 11/06/09 to 11/08/09

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