Rentrak Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending July 18, 2010
PORTLAND, Ore., Jul 22, 2010 --
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 July 18, 2010 include:
Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs*Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Weeks in Release |
|---|---|---|---|
1 |
The Bounty Hunter |
Sony (NYSE:SNE) |
1 |
2 |
Our Family Wedding |
Fox (NASDAQ:NWS) |
1 |
3 |
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief |
Fox (NASDAQ:NWS) |
3 |
4 |
The Book of Eli |
Warner Bros. (NYSE:TWX) |
5 |
5 |
Brooklyn's Finest |
Anchor Bay (NASDAQ:LCAPA, LCAPB) |
2 |
6 |
Hot Tub Time Machine |
MGM |
3 |
7 |
Alice in Wonderland (2010) |
Disney (NYSE:DIS) |
7 |
8 |
The Crazies |
Anchor Bay (NASDAQ:LCAPA, LCAPB) |
3 |
9 |
Green Zone |
Universal (NYSE:GE) |
4 |
10 |
Psych: The Complete Fourth Season |
Universal (NYSE:GE) |
1 |
Rentrak Top 10 Renting DVDs
Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Weeks in Release |
|---|---|---|---|
1 |
The Bounty Hunter |
Sony (NYSE:SNE) |
1 |
2 |
Hot Tub Time Machine |
MGM |
3 |
3 |
Brooklyn's Finest |
Overture Films (NASDAQ:LCAPA,LCAPB) |
2 |
4 |
The Crazies |
Overture Films (NASDAQ:LCAPA,LCAPB) |
3 |
5 |
Our Family Wedding |
Fox (NASDAQ:NWS) |
1 |
6 |
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief |
Fox (NASDAQ:NWS) |
3 |
7 |
The Book Of Eli |
Warner Bros. (NYSE:TWX) |
5 |
8 |
She's Out Of My League |
DreamWorks (NYSE:DIS) |
4 |
9 |
When In Rome |
Touchstone (NYSE:DIS) |
5 |
10 |
Green Zone |
Universal (NYSE:GE) |
4 |
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 indepth 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 point-of-sale (POS) tracking system, which measures title-level performance via rental transactions on over 65,000 DVD and video game properties in the brick-and-mortar, online, and kiosk channels across North America. Rentrak is the world's largest processor of rental data, tracking in excess of one billion transactions each year from more than 13,700 storefronts 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 Corporation (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, home entertainment, on-demand and linear television, broadband and mobile, Rentrak is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with additional offices worldwide in Los Angeles, New York City, Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom. For more information on any of Rentrak's services, please visit www.rentrak.com.
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