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Universal CityWalk(R) Sizzles With Opening of Samba, New Brazilian Steakhouse & Lounge Featuring

Universal CityWalk(R) spices up its eclectic array of culinary cuisine with the addition of Samba Brazilian Steakhouse & Lounge, featuring authentic Brazilian churrascaria and free nightly entertainment including colorful Samba dancers and lively Brazilian and Latino music and a dedicated Caipirinha- cocktail bar.

Located in the heart of Universal CityWalk, Samba Brazilian Steakhouse & Lounge offers indoor and al-fresco dining amid elegant but welcoming retro decor. It will also feature dedicated Caipirinha cocktail bar serving nearly two dozen unique variations of Brazil's national cocktail, Caipirinha, including the signature Samba, a Jalapeno-Cucumber, a Basil and Blackberry and a Caipiroska Bubble Gum. A full bar of mixed drinks, beer and wine will also be available to complement the restaurant's traditional Rodizio feasts of skewered meats including lombinho (pork sirloin), coxinha (chicken) and picanha (sirloin steak), all served tableside.

Samba specialties, prepared by world-famous Chef Jason Ryczek, renowned for creating a variety of unique, mouth-watering dishes, will include such palate pleasers as Lobster Mashed Potatoes, Farfoa (yucca flour, toasted with butter, bacon and salt), Portuguese Sausage, Beef Kabobs and Leg of Lamb. Popular All You Can Eat menus, will include a Churrasco Feast, Gaucho Feast and Champagne Brunch (available on weekends), offering a tempting assortment of authentic Brazilian marinated meats and seafood. Traditional desserts will include a scrumptious Dulce de Leche, Fried Bananas and endless Chocolate Fountain.

Nightly live Samba performers in full festive regalia will entertain with Brazilian and Latin musical accompaniment.

Samba is open daily and features a lounge area for private parties. More information is available at Samba Brazilian Steakhouse & Lounge.

Universal CityWalk, part of Universal Studios Hollywood, features over 60 entertainment-themed restaurants, nightclubs, shops and dynamic entertainment options as well as Universal CityWalk Cinemas, offering the best movie-going experience in Los Angeles.

Universal Studios Hollywood, The Entertainment Capital of L.A., is a unit of Universal Parks & Resorts, a division of NBC Universal. NBC Universal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Formed in May of 2004 through the combining of NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment, NBC Universal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks. NBC Universal is 80% owned by General Electric (NYSE: GE), with 20% controlled by Vivendi.

SOURCE Universal CityWalk

http://www.citywalkhollywood.com

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Companies: General Electric Co. (GE)

 

Rentrak Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending November 1, 2009 - Zibb.com

Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT), today announced the top ten DVD sales and rentals for the prior week based on estimated consumer spending.

According to the company's Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials tracking services, the top ten selling DVDs and the top ten most-rented motion pictures, per data collected for the week ending November 1, 2009 include:


    Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs*

    RANK                  TITLE                    STUDIO          WEEKS IN
                                                                    RELEASE
     1   Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs            FOX                  1
     2   Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure         Disney               1
     3   Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen       Paramount            2
     4   Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs/
          The Scrat Pack                           FOX                  1
     5   The Proposal                              Touchstone           3
     6   Orphan                                    Warner               1
     7   Monsters Vs. Aliens                       Dreamworks           5
     8   Twilight                                  Summit Entertainment 33
     9   Drag Me To Hell                           Universal            3
     10  Land of the Lost                          Universal            3

    *Week ended October 31, 2009



    Rentrak Top 10 Renting DVDs

    RANK                 TITLE                     STUDIO          WEEKS IN
                                                                    RELEASE
     1   Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen       Paramount            2
     2   Orphan                                    Warner               1
     3   Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs            FOX                  1
     4   The Proposal                              Touchstone           3
     5   Land Of The Lost                          Universal            3
     6   Drag Me To Hell                           Universal            3
     7   The Maiden Heist                          Sony                 1
     8   Nothing Like The Holidays                 Overture Films       1
     9   Year One                                  Sony                 4
     10  Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past                New Line             6


A(C) Rentrak Corporation 2009 -Content in Rentrak Home Entertainment updates is produced and/or compiled by Rentrak Corporation and its Home Entertainment data collection and analytical service, and is 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(R)

Retail Essentials measures weekly consumer sales activity on standard DVD and Blu-ray Disc 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(R)

Home Video Essentials is Rentrak's exclusive point-of-sale (POS) tracking system, which measures title-level performance via rental transactions on over 65,000 DVD and video game properties in the brick-and-mortar, online, and kiosk channels across North America. Rentrak is the world's largest processor of rental data, tracking in excess of one billion transactions each year from more than 13,700 storefronts within 72 hours after the close of each business week. Clients are able to identify consumer trends, quantify performance, and benchmark findings against the broader business sector.

About Rentrak Corporation

Rentrak Corporation, based in Portland, Oregon, is an information management company serving clients in the media, entertainment, retail and advertising industries. The company's Entertainment Essentials(R) suite of services is redefining media measurement in the digital broadband era. Entertainment Essentials provides customers with near-real-time, actionable insight into performance of content distributed over a wide variety of modern media technologies. Available by license or subscription, each Entertainment Essentials application allows executives to analyze detailed industry-wide and title-specific data to make decisions that enhance the bottom line and provide competitive advantage. For further information, please visit Rentrak's corporate website at http://www.rentrak.com.

    Contacts:    Sallie Olmsted/Amanda Bartz
                 Rentrak Corporation
                 310-854-8124/8151

SOURCE Rentrak Corporation

http://www.rentrak.com

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Companies: Rentrak Corp. (RENT)

 

Rentrak Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending October 18, 2009 - Zibb.com

Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT), today announced the top ten DVD sales and rentals for the prior week based on estimated consumer spending.

According to the company's Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials tracking services, the top ten selling DVDs and the top ten most-rented motion pictures, per data collected for the week ending October 18, 2009 include:

Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs*

    RANK  TITLE                                    STUDIO    WEEKS IN RELEASE
    ----  -----                                    ------    ----------------
        1 The Proposal                             Touchstone          1
        - ------------                             ----------         ---
        2 Land of the Lost                         Universal           1
        - ----------------                         ---------          ---
        3 Drag Me To Hell                          Universal           1
        - ---------------                          ---------          ---
        4 Monsters Vs. Aliens                      DreamWorks          3
        - -------------------                      ----------         ---
        5 Year One                                 Sony                2
        - --------                                 ----               ---
        6 Hannah Montana: The Movie                Disney              9
        - -------------------------                ------             ---
        7 X-Men Origins: Wolverine                 FOX                 5
        - ------------------------                 ---                ---
        8 Ginormous Double Pack: Monsters vs.      DreamWorks
           Aliens/B.O.B.'s Big Break in Monster 3D                     3
        - ---------------------------------------- ----------         ---
        9 Katt Williams: Pimpadelic                Codeblack           1
        - -------------------------                ---------          ---
       10 Ghosts of Girlfriends Past               New Line            4
       -- --------------------------               --------           ---

    *Week ended October 17, 2009


Rentrak Top 10 Renting DVDs

    RANK  TITLE                      STUDIO                 WEEKS IN RELEASE
    ----  -----                      ------                 ----------------
        1 Land Of The Lost           Universal                    1
        - ----------------           ---------                   ---
        2 The Proposal               Touchstone                   1
        - ------------               ----------                  ---
        3 Drag Me To Hell            Universal                    1
        - ---------------            ---------                   ---
        4 Year One                   Sony                         2
        - --------                   ----                        ---
        5 Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past New Line                     4
        - -------------------------- --------                    ---
        6 Monsters Vs. Aliens        DreamWorks                   3
        - -------------------        ----------                  ---
        7 Imagine That               Paramount                    2
        - ------------               ---------                   ---
        8 X-Men Origins: Wolverine   FOX                          5
        - ------------------------   ---                         ---
        9 State Of Play              Universal                    7
        - -------------              ---------                   ---
       10 My Life In Ruins           FOX                          2
       -- ----------------           ---                         ---



A(C) Rentrak Corporation 2009 -Content in Rentrak Home Entertainment updates is produced and/or compiled by Rentrak Corporation and its Home Entertainment data collection and analytical service, and is 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(R)

Retail Essentials measures weekly consumer sales activity on standard DVD and Blu-ray Disc 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(R)

Home Video Essentials is Rentrak's exclusive point-of-sale (POS) tracking system, which measures title-level performance via rental transactions on over 65,000 DVD and video game properties in the brickandmortar, online, and kiosk channels across North America. Rentrak is the world's largest processor of rental data, tracking in excess of one billion transactions each year from more than 13,700 storefronts within 72 hours after the close of each business week. Clients are able to identify consumer trends, quantify performance, and benchmark findings against the broader business sector.

About Rentrak Corporation

Rentrak Corporation, based in Portland, Oregon, is an information management company serving clients in the media, entertainment, retail and advertising industries. The company's Entertainment Essentials(R) suite of services is redefining media measurement in the digital broadband era. Entertainment Essentials provides customers with near-real-time, actionable insight into performance of content distributed over a wide variety of modern media technologies. Available by license or subscription, each Entertainment Essentials application allows executives to analyze detailed industry-wide and title-specific data to make decisions that enhance the bottom line and provide competitive advantage. For further information, please visit Rentrak's corporate website at http://www.rentrak.com.

    Contacts:    Sallie Olmsted/Amanda Bartz
                 Rentrak Corporation
                 310-854-8124/8151

SOURCE Rentrak Corporation

http://www.rentrak.com

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Companies: Rentrak Corp. (RENT)

 

Rentrak Announces top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending October 25, 2009 - Zibb.com

Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT), today announced the top ten DVD sales and rentals for the prior week based on estimated consumer spending.

According to the company's Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials tracking services, the top ten selling DVDs and the top ten most-rented motion pictures, per data collected for the week ending October 25, 2009 include:

    Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs*

    RANK                TITLE                       STUDIO   WEEKS IN RELEASE
     1    Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen     Paramount          1
     2    The Proposal                            Touchstone         2
     3    Transformers                            Dreamworks         106
     4    Land of the Lost                        Universal          2
     5    Monsters Vs. Aliens                     Dreamworks         4
     6    Drag Me To Hell                         Universal          2
     7    Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead             FOX                1
     8    Hannah Montana: The Movie               Disney             10
     9    X-Men Origins: Wolverine                FOX                6
     10   Year One                                Sony               3

    *Week ended October 24, 2009


    Rentrak Top 10 Renting DVDs

    RANK                TITLE                     STUDIO    WEEKS IN RELEASE
     1    Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen    Paramount          1
     2    The Proposal                           Touchstone         2
     3    Land Of The Lost                       Universal          2
     4    Drag Me To Hell                        Universal          2
     5    Year One                               Sony               3
     6    Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past             New Line           5
     7    Wrong Turn 3: Left For Dead            FOX                1
     8    Monsters Vs. Aliens                    DreamWorks         4
     9    Imagine That                           Paramount          3
     10   X-Men Origins: Wolverine               FOX                6



A(C) Rentrak Corporation 2009 -Content in Rentrak Home Entertainment updates is produced and/or compiled by Rentrak Corporation and its Home Entertainment data collection and analytical service, and is 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(R)

Retail Essentials measures weekly consumer sales activity on standard DVD and Blu-ray Disc 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(R)

Home Video Essentials is Rentrak's exclusive point-of-sale (POS) tracking system, which measures title-level performance via rental transactions on over 65,000 DVD and video game properties in the brick-and-mortar, online, and kiosk channels across North America. Rentrak is the world's largest processor of rental data, tracking in excess of one billion transactions each year from more than 13,700 storefronts within 72 hours after the close of each business week. Clients are able to identify consumer trends, quantify performance, and benchmark findings against the broader business sector.

About Rentrak Corporation

Rentrak Corporation, based in Portland, Oregon, is an information management company serving clients in the media, entertainment, retail and advertising industries. The company's Entertainment Essentials(R) suite of services is redefining media measurement in the digital broadband era. Entertainment Essentials provides customers with near-real-time, actionable insight into performance of content distributed over a wide variety of modern media technologies. Available by license or subscription, each Entertainment Essentials application allows executives to analyze detailed industry-wide and title-specific data to make decisions that enhance the bottom line and provide competitive advantage. For further information, please visit Rentrak's corporate website at http://www.rentrak.com.

    Contacts:   Sallie Olmsted/Amanda Bartz
                Rentrak Corporation
                310-854-8124/8151

SOURCE Rentrak Corporation

http://www.rentrak.com

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Companies: Rentrak Corp. (RENT)

 

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