PORTLAND, Ore., April 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Rentrak
(NASDAQ: RENT), the leader in precisely measuring movies and
TV everywhere, today announced the top weekly cross-platform
entertainment rankings for April 22,
2015.
"Furious 7" drove the worldwide box office again this past
weekend, officially crossing the $1
billion mark and holding steady as the number one film in
the world for the third week in a row.
Internationally, the movie made an estimated $167.9 million across 68 territories for a 19-day
international total of $858.3
million. "Furious 7" also topped the domestic chart with
$29 million, bringing the movie's
North American total to $294.5
million. "Furious 7" is Universal's highest grossing movie
worldwide in the studio's 102-year history.
Paramount's "Interstellar" is this week's out-of-this-world
winner across screens. It holds the number one spot on our Movies
on Demand chart as well as both the DVD & Blu-ray Disc sales
and rentals charts. Coming in second on both the Movies on Demand
chart and the DVD & Blu-ray rentals chart is Anchor Bay's "The
Imitation Game." Warner Bros.' "The Hobbit: Battle of the Five
Armies" refuses to turn back at the number two spot on the DVD
& Blu-ray sales chart.
On our digital purchases and rentals chart, Fox's "Wild,"
starring Laura Dern and Reese
Witherspoon, trekked to the number one position. Warner
Bros' "The Hobbit: Battle Of The Five Armies," continues to perform
well in the number two spot in its fifth week of
release. Fox's "Taken 3" took on the competition with a strong
debut in its first week landing at the number four
spot. Overall, Fox dominated the charts this week with eight
of the top 20 titles.
Once again, CBS is the winner of our broadcast TV engagement
chart, with "NCIS" taking number one, followed by "Blue Bloods."
Telemundo's ever-popular "Duenos del paraiso" took third.
Viewers were caught up in the end of "March Madness" on our
latest cable TV engagement chart, sending TBS' "2015 NCAA
Basketball Tournament" to the top followed by A&E's "Bates
Motel" and AMC's "Mad Men."
On our combined social media and digital engagement chart for
viewers of broadcast and cable telecasts, NBC's "The Voice"
continued their Knockouts, holding on at number one. This week's
leading knockout video was Lexi Davila: "Anything Could
Happen" standing at more than 563k views. At number two,
Spike's "Lip Sync Battle" premiered with a bang airing two episodes
this week, including the popular Dwayne Johnson vs. Jimmy
Fallon episode (7.3 million YouTube views). In the third spot,
Kelly Clarkson made a return to
American Idol singing on the show. A Facebook
post applauding her performance earned over 41k
interactions.
Click the links below to view the most recent charts:
Worldwide Box Office
Domestic Box Office
DVD & Blu-ray Disc Sales
DVD & Blu-ray Disc Rentals
Movies on Demand
Digital Movies Sales & Rentals
TV & Social Media Engagement
About Rentrak Corporation
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
Rentrak.com.
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Office: 818.917.9697
Email: pauld@rentrak.com
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PR Specialist
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Email: aibrahim@rentrak.com
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