MONSTER'S UNIVERSITY Tops Rentrak's DVD & Blu-ray Sales and Rentals for Week Ending 12/1

By: Dec. 09, 2013
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Rentrak Corporation (RENT) today announced the Top-10 DVD & Blu-ray Disc sales and rentals according to the company's Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials tracking services whichare based on estimated consumer spending per data collected for the week ending Dec. 1, 2013.

About Rentrak Corporation
Rentrak (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 visitwww.rentrak.com.

RENTRAK TOP-10 DVD & BLU-RAY DISC SALES*:

RANK

TITLE

STUDIO

WEEKS IN RELEASE

1

Monsters University

Disney (NYSE: DIS)

5

2

Turbo

FOX (FOX)

3

3

RED 2

Summit (NYSE: LGF)

1

4

Disney's Planes

Disney (NYSE: DIS)

2

5

Man of Steel

Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX)

3

6

We're the Millers

Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX)

2

7

The Croods

FOX (FOX)

9

8

2 Guns

Universal (CMCSA)

2

9

The Great Gatsby (2013)

Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX)

14

10

Pacific Rim

Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX)

7

*Week ended Nov. 30, 2013

RENTRAK TOP-10 DVD & BLU-RAY DISC RENTALS:

RANK

TITLE

STUDIO

WEEKS IN RELEASE

1

The Heat (2013)**

FOX (FOX)

7

2

The Internship**

FOX (FOX)

6

3

White House Down

Sony (NYSE: SNE)

4

4

Grown Ups 2

Sony (NYSE: SNE)

4

5

Red 2 (2013)

Summit (NYSE: LGF)

1

6

Pacific Rim**

Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX)

7

7

The Conjuring**

New Line Cinema (NYSE: TWX)

6

8

Planes (2013)

Disney (NYSE: DIS)

2

9

Monsters University

Buena Vista (NYSE: DIS)

5

10

The Hangover Part III**

Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX)

8

**Titles have delayed availability at certain rental outlets.

Rentrak Corporation and its home entertainment data collection and analytical service are 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 home entertainment updates in any format or medium without first obtaining permission, subject to the following requirements: (1) the material must be reproduced accurately; and (2) any publication or issuance of any part of the material to others must acknowledge Rentrak Corporation as the source of the material.

About Retail Essentials
Retail Essentials measures weekly consumer sales activity on standard DVD andBlu-rayDisc 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 brickandmortar, 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 9 million by-mail/online disc rental subscribers after the close of each business week. Clients are able to identify consumer trends, quantify performance, and benchmark findings against the broader business sector.

SOURCE Rentrak Corporation



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