Rentrak Theatrical Announces Weekend Box Office Estimates for Week of May 11, 2008

LOS ANGELES, May 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rentrak Theatrical, a business unit of Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ:RENT), today announced the weekend theatrical box office estimates for the weekend period of May 9 through May 11, 2008 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 9:30AM Pacific on Sunday May 11, 2008 by Rentrak Theatrical include:

Estimated
Title Weekend Locations

Iron Man 50,500,000 4111
Speed Racer 20,210,000 3606
What Happens In Vegas 20,000,000 3215
Made Of Honor 7,600,000 2734
Baby Mama 5,766,265 2627
Forgetting Sarah Marshall 3,777,840 2376
Harold And Kumar Escape From Guantanamo 3,155,000 2264
The Forbidden Kingdom 1,900,000 1724
Nim's Island 1,325,000 1601
Redbelt 1,140,227 1379
Prom Night 1,050,000 1465
21 835,000 978

About Box Office Essentials

Box Office Essentials provides each studio with password-protected, real-time, web browser-based and 24x7 access to data pertaining specifically to their movie release titles. A sophisticated toolset allows studio distribution executives to view and analyze the information at different levels of detail and across a multitude of attributes (by theatre circuit, DMA, time zone, etc.), enhancing their ability to make faster, better informed decisions. Additional features include online school calendars (K-12 and college), interactive release schedule and 24-hour subscriber support.

About Rentrak Corporation

Rentrak Corporation, based in Portland, Oregon, is an information management company serving clients in the media, entertainment, retail, advertising and manufacturing industries. The company's Entertainment Essentials(TM) 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 Web site at http://www.rentrak.com/.

Contacts: Sallie Olmsted/Amanda Bartz
Rentrak Corporation
+1-310-854-8124/8151

Source: Rentrak Corporation

CONTACT: Sallie Olmsted or Amanda Bartz of Rentrak Corporation,
+1-310-854-8124 or +1-310-854-8151

Web site: http://www.rentrak.com/

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