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Rentrak Announces Top Ten Movies on Demand Titles for Week Ending Mar. 2, 2014

GE, LGF.A, NWS, SONY, DIS

PORTLAND, Ore., March 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Rentrak (NASDAQ: RENT), the leader in precisely measuring movies and TV everywhere, today announced the top ten Movies on Demand (MOD) titles based on consumer transaction rate. Movies on Demand are transactional (pay-per-purchase) films available through cable and telco providers.

According to the company's OnDemand Essentials service, the top ten most-viewed Movies on Demand titles, per data collected Feb. 24, 2014Mar. 2, 2014 are below.

Rentrak Top Ten MOD Titles:

RANK

TITLE

STUDIO

VOD RELEASE DATE

MPAA RATING

BOX OFFICE ($M)

1

Gravity

Warner Bros.

(NYSE: TWX)

2/24/14

PG-13

271.9

2

Thor: The Dark World*

Buena Vista

(NYSE: DIS)

2/25/14

PG-13

206.1

3

Dallas Buyers Club*

Universal

(NYSE: GE)

2/04/14

R

23.9

4

Nebraska

Paramount

(NYSE: VIA and VIA.B)

2/24/14

R

17.5

5

Captain Phillips*

Sony

(NYSE: SNE)

1/21/14

PG-13

106.7

6

The Counselor

FOX

(NASDAQ: NWS)

2/10/14

R

17.0

7

August: Osage County

Starz Ent. Group

2/23/14

R

37.3

8

Ender's Game*

Lionsgate

(NYSE: LGF)

2/11/14

PG-13

61.7

9

Blue Jasmine*

Sony

(NYSE: SNE)

1/21/14

PG-13

33.3

10

The Best Man Holiday*

Universal

(NYSE: GE)

2/11/14

R

70.5

Source: Rentrak OnDemand Essentials, as dated, rank based on transaction. OnDemand Essentials includes reporting from operator partners on Television on Demand usage.

*Indicates day-and-date with home video release.

© 2014 Rentrak Corporation - Content in this chart is produced and/or compiled by Rentrak Corporation and its OnDemand Essentials data collection and analytical service, and is covered by provisions of the Copyright Act. The material presented herein is intended to be available for public use. You may reproduce the content of the chart in any format or medium without first obtaining permission, subject to the following requirements: (1) the material must be reproduced accurately and not in a misleading manner; (2) any publication or issuance of any part of the material to others must acknowledge Rentrak Corporation as the source of the material; and (3) you may not receive any monetary consideration for reproducing, displaying, disclosing or otherwise using any part of the material.

About OnDemand Essentials®
Rentrak's OnDemand Essentials is the industry's first and only product measuring the consumption of Video on Demand (VOD) on more than 111 million television sets across the U.S. and Canada including viewing from every cable, telco, and satellite operator offering VOD. OnDemand Essentials is part of Rentrak's OnDemand Everywhere suite of products which includes VOD, electronic sell-through (EST), Internet Video on Demand (iVOD), streaming and linear TV viewing insights to give clients a consolidated look at Video on Demand viewing everywhere the consumer is watching. Learn more.

About Rentrak
Rentrak (NASDAQ: RENT) is the entertainment and marketing industries' premier provider of worldwide consumer viewership information, precisely measuring actual viewing behavior of movies and TV everywhere. Using our proprietary intelligence and technology, combined with Advanced Demographics, only Rentrak is the census currency for VOD and movies. Rentrak provides the stable and robust audience measurement services that movie, television and advertising professionals across the globe have come to rely on to better deliver their business goals and more precisely target advertising across numerous platforms including box office, multiscreen television and home video. For more information on Rentrak, please visit www.rentrak.com.

RENTT

Contact:
Antoine Ibrahim
(646) 722-1561
aibrahim@rentrak.com

Rentrak is the entertainment industry's premier provider of worldwide consumer viewership information, measuring movie and television content everywhere the consumer is watching including box office, multiscreen television and home video.

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