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Rentrak Theatrical Announces Box Office Estimates for Weekend of June 15, 2008

LOS ANGELES, June 15 /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 June 13 through June 15, 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, June 13 by Rentrak Theatrical include:


     Rank  Title                                 Weekend Gross  Locations

     1    The Incredible Hulk                    $54,537,800    3505
     2    Kung Fu Panda                          $34,321,000    4136
     3    The Happening                          $30,500,000    2986
     4    You Don't Mess With The Zohan          $16,400,000    3466
     5    Indiana Jones Kingdom Crystal Skull    $13,547,000    3804
     6    Sex And The City                       $10,185,000    3155
     7    Iron Man                               $5,130,000     2403
     8    The Strangers                          $4,097,000     2410
     9    Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian   $3,004,000     2308
     10   What Happens In Vegas                  $1,700,000     1422
     11   The Visitor                            $450,000       254
     12   Baby Mama                              $407,700       453

     Weekend of 06/13/2008 to 06/15/2008

     (C) 2008 by Rentrak Corporation

About Box Office Essentials

Box Office Essentials provides each studio with password-protected, real- time, web browser-based and 24/7 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, and 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 inPortland, 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:    Rogers & Cowan for Rentrak Corporation
                  Sallie Olmsted                     Amanda Bartz
                  (310) 854-8124                     (310) 854-8151
                  solmsted@rogersandcowan.com        abartz@rogersandcowan.com

SOURCE Rentrak Corporation

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Rentrak Theatrical Announces Box Office Estimates for Weekend of June 15, 2008