PORTLAND, Ore., July 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Rentrak
(NASDAQ: RENT), the leader in precisely measuring movies and
TV everywhere, today announced the top weekly cross-platform
entertainment rankings for July 29,
2015.
Universal's "Minions" continues to rake in the cash as the
little guys dominate the worldwide box office adding another
$66 million this weekend, bringing
its total to a non-Minion sized $759.4
million. Disney/Marvel's "Ant-Man" also had a great
weekend at the global box office with $60.1
million in 48 international territories plus North
America. Notably, in the third spot, the 3-D fantasy-adventure
"Monster Hunt" from China earned a
whopping $46 million in just five
territories and has $211 million in
the bank, making it the highest-grossing Chinese movie in
history.
In North American action, there was a very tight race for the
top spot as Disney/Marvel's superhero comedy "Ant-Man" in its
second weekend and Sony's Adam
Sandler video game action-comedy "Pixels" in its debut,
battled for the top spot, but "Ant-Man" takes it by a narrow margin
with $24.9 million vs. "Pixels"
$24.011 million.
On this week's Movies on Demand chart, the top three spots are
taken over by Sony's "Paul Blart: Mall Cop
2," Warner Bros.' Farrell and Hart prison comedy "Get Hard"
and the brilliant and mind-blowing sci-fi machinations of A24's "Ex
Machina."
On our digital purchases and rentals chart, Warner Bros.' "Get
Hard" now in its fifth week of release, holds on to the top spot
while Fox's "Kingsman: The Secret Service" climbed back up the
charts into the number two spot. Lionsgate's "71," a movie about a
young British soldier that is accidentally abandoned by his unit
following a riot on the deadly streets of Belfast in 1971, debuts on the charts in tenth
position.
On our DVD and Blu-ray Disc sales chart this week, Fox's
romantic drama set in the world of professional bull riders, "The
Longest Ride" takes the top spot and is followed by the ubiquitous
"Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2" and newcomer
"Ex Machina."
This week on the DVD and Blu-ray Disc rentals side of the
ledger, "Kingsman: The Secret Service" continues to reign at the
top of the chart, followed by, you guessed it, "Paul Blart: Mall
Cop 2" and the Will Smith
caper-comedy "Focus," which refuses to leave the upper rankings
even in its seventh week of release.
Univision's "Que te perdone Dios… yo no" leads on our viewer
engagement for broadcast telecasts chart with Telemundo's "El Señor
de los Cielos" in the second spot again this week, followed
Univision's coverage of "Copa de Oro de la CONCACAF" Gold Cup
futbol.
Our top viewer engagement for cable telecasts chart shows TNT's
"Major Crimes" continuing to
generate a lot of interest from viewers followed by TNT's "Rizzoli
& Isles" and VH1's continuously-popular "Love and Hip Hop
Atlanta."
Finally, on our combined social media and digital engagement
chart for viewers of broadcast and cable telecasts, NBC's
"America's Got Talent" host Nick
Cannon received a kissing lesson from an intimacy expert and
the video was uploaded on YouTube, receiving 1.6M+ views.
Comedy Central's "Key & Peele" posted on Facebook a reminder of
the show's return with the post garnering 22k+ interactions.
SpikeTV's "Lip Sync Battle" uploaded a video to YouTube of
Will Arnett singing "Everything is
Awesome" and as a result, the video gained 1.6M+ views.
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
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actual viewing behavior of movies and TV everywhere. Using our
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