Rentrak Announces Top Ten Movies-On-Demand Titles for Week Ending Sept. 29, 2013

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Oct 07, 2013, 05:55 ET

PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Rentrak (NASDAQ: RENT), the leader in precisely measuring movies and TV everywhere, today announced the top ten movies-on-demand 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 titles, per data collected from Sept. 23–29, 2013 include:

Rentrak Top Ten MOD Titles

RANK	TITLE	STUDIO	VOD RELEASE DATE	MPAA RATING	BOX OFFICE ($M)
1	World War Z*	Paramount (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B)	9/17/13	PG-13	202.2
2	Iron Man 3*	Buena Vista (NYSE: DIS)	9/24/13	PG-13	408.8
3	Now You See Me*	Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF)	9/03/13	PG-13	116.4
4	Star Trek: Into Darkness*	Paramount (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B)	9/10/13	PG-13	227.3
5	The Great Gatsby*	Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX)	8/27/13	PG-13	144.7
6	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs*	Sony (NYSE: SNE)	1/05/10	PG	124.8
7	The Bling Ring*	A24 Films	9/17/13	R	5.8
8	Olympus Has Fallen*	Sony (NYSE: SNE)	8/13/13	R	98.9
9	Pain & Gain*	Paramount (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B)	8/27/13	R	49.8
10	Epic*	20^th Century Fox (NASDAQ: FOX)	8/20/13	PG	107.2

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.

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About OnDemand Essentials®

OnDemand Essentials, a service of Rentrak's Advanced Media & Information Division, provides operators, content providers (including broadcast/cable networks, studios) and advertisers with a transactional tracking and reporting system to view and analyze on-demand content. The product is an extension of Rentrak's Essentials suite of business intelligence products customized for the entertainment industry. OnDemand Essentials clients have password protected, near real-time, Web browser-based 24/7 access to on-demand consumer usage data at various access levels based on business and privacy rules. A sophisticated toolset aggregates and reports data across multiple vendors in one easy to use report system. Clients using the OnDemand Essentials system are able to instantly analyze and interpret their own business data to identify trends, program and promote more effectively, as well as track their performance against the broader business sector in which they operate.

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.

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