LOS ANGELES, March 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Rentrak
Corporation (NASDAQ: RENT) today announced the top ten DVD
sales and rentals for the prior week based on estimated consumer
spending.
According to the company's Retail Essentials and Home Video
Essentials tracking services, the top ten selling DVDs and the top
ten most-rented motion pictures, per data collected for the week
ending March 11, 2012 include:
Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs
RANK
|
TITLE
|
STUDIO
|
WEEKS
IN RELEASE
|
1
|
Immortals
(2011)
|
FOX
(NASDAQ: NWS)
|
1
|
2
|
Game of
Thrones: The Complete First Season
|
Warner
Bros. (NYSE: TWX)
|
1
|
3
|
Jack and
Jill
|
Sony
(NYSE: SNE)
|
1
|
4
|
Footloose (2011)
|
Paramount
(NYSE: VIA and VIA.B)
|
1
|
5
|
Puss in
Boots (2011)
|
Paramount
(NYSE: VIA and VIA.B)
|
3
|
6
|
Barbie in
A Mermaid 2
|
Universal
(NYSE: GE)
|
1
|
7
|
Hugo
|
Paramount
(NYSE: VIA and VIA.B)
|
2
|
8
|
The
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
|
Summit
Entertainment
|
5
|
9
|
The Lion
King II: Simba's Pride
|
Disney
(NYSE: DIS)
|
1
|
10
|
Tooth
Fairy 2
|
FOX
(NASDAQ: NWS)
|
1
|
*Week ended March 10,
2012
Rentrak Top 10 Renting DVDs
RANK
|
TITLE
|
STUDIO
|
WEEKS
IN RELEASE
|
1
|
Immortals
(2011)
|
FOX
(NASDAQ: NWS)
|
1
|
2
|
Jack And
Jill (2011)
|
Sony
(NYSE: SNE)
|
1
|
3
|
Tower
Heist (2011)
|
Universal
(NYSE: GE)
|
3
|
4
|
Footloose
(2011)
|
Paramount
(NYSE: VIA and VIA.B)
|
1
|
5
|
Puss In
Boots (2011)
|
DreamWorks
(NASDAQ: DWA)
|
3
|
6
|
Hugo
(2011)
|
Paramount
(NYSE: VIA and VIA.B)
|
2
|
7
|
In Time
(2011)
|
FOX
(NASDAQ: NWS)
|
6
|
8
|
J. Edgar
(2011)
|
Warner
Bros. (NYSE: TWX)
|
3
|
9
|
The Rum
Diary
|
Sony
(NYSE: SNE)
|
4
|
10
|
The
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
|
Summit
Entertainment
|
5
|
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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 a global digital media
measurement and research company, serving the most recognizable
companies in the entertainment industry. With a reach across
numerous platforms including box office, multi-screen television,
and home video, Rentrak has developed more efficient metrics to be
used as database currencies for the evaluation and selling of
media. Rentrak is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with additional U.S. and
international offices. For more information on Rentrak, please
visit www.rentrak.com.
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Olmsted
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Bialek
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