Redbox Announces Most Rented Films of 2009

2009 might have ended on a rather sad note for certain industry people, especially in the light of all those “best” and “worst” charts (here’s looking at you, Megan Fox), but that’s not to say that everything was bad in the year in that ended. The DVD rental business, for instance, flourished, CoEd Magazine writes, based on the numbers released by Redbox, a DVD rental company.

Based on the numbers made public by Redbox, no less than 350 million movies were rented throughout 2009, which amounts to a pretty good profit overall. The number was registered at over 19,000 automated DVD rental machines all across the US, with “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” coming in at number one with the most rentals, an estimated of 4.5 million at Redbox alone.

Up next is Sandra Bullock’s romantic comedy with Ryan Reynolds “The Proposal,” followed by “Taken,” Clint Eastwood’s “Gran Torino” and Nicolas Cage’s “Knowing.” In the category named by CoEd Top Bromaces of 2009, “I Love You, Man” comes first, followed by “Year One,” “My Best Friend’s Girl,” “Pineapple Express” and “Role Models.” In the Top Adrenaline Rush of 2009, we find “Taken” at number one, “Knowing” up next, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” “Obsessed” and “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” on the final three positions.

Top Chick Flicks of the year that ended just days ago are, again, “The Proposal,” “Bride Wars,” “He’s Just Not That Into You,” “17 Again” and “Ghost of Girlfriends Past.” Notably absent is “Twilight,” the first film in the vampire saga, which only goes to prove how it came to be such a blockbuster in theaters, since fans prefer to see it there instead in their own home, on the small screen. Still, the figures reveal a truth that perhaps we would like hidden, CoEd says of the chart.

“Based on actual rentals, ‘Paul Blart: Mall Cop’ topped the list of the most-rented movie of 2009, logging more than 4.5 million Redbox rentals, and proving definitively that the country is doomed. I bet if Reagan were here to save us ‘Gran Torino’ would have been #1,” the e-zine writes.