LOS ANGELES, March 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --  Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT), today announced the weekend theatrical box office numbers for the weekend period of March 19 through March 21, 2010 according to the company's Box Office Essentials™ theatrical box office data collection and analytical service.

The twelve estimated top producing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, March 21, 2010 include:

    
    
    
    Rank   Title           Distributor      Weekend Gross    Cume    Locations
     1 Alice In Wonderland Disney             $34,509,000 $265,752,668    3739
     2 Diary Of A Wimpy 
        Kid                20th Century Fox   $21,800,000  $21,800,000    3077
     3 The Bounty Hunter   Sony               $21,000,000  $21,000,000    3074
     4 Repo Men            Universal           $6,151,240   $6,151,240    2521
     5 She's Out Of My
         League            Paramount           $6,015,000  $19,953,811    2958
     6 Green Zone          Universal           $5,962,940  $24,701,970    3004
     7 Shutter Island      Paramount           $4,755,000 $115,769,632    2704
     8 Avatar              20th Century Fox    $4,000,000 $736,880,952    1236
     9 Our Family Wedding  Fox Searchlight     $3,800,000  $13,668,507    1609
                            Summit 
    10 Remember Me         Entertainment       $3,278,000  $13,944,428    2215
                            Summit
    11 The Ghost Writer    Entertainment       $2,086,000   $6,776,169     819
    12 Brooklyn's Finest   Overture Films      $1,679,000  $24,859,632    1311

Weekend of 3/19/10 to 3/21/10

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