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How Heinz, Heineken and other brands got their claws into ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’

July 22, 2024
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“Deadpool & Wolverine” is poised to interrupt box office records when it hits theaters this Friday (July 26), and buzz has been constructing across the superhero sequel because the 2022 announcement that Hugh Jackman would reprise his iconic “X-Men” role within the film.

There has been no shortage of marketers seeking to borrow among the cultural cache of the third “Deadpool” outing. The run-up to the film’s release has seen brands including Heineken, Heinz and Jack within the Box team up with the film in efforts that bring together marketers, Marvel Studios and Maximum Effort, the film production company and digital marketing agency co-founded by Deadpool himself, Ryan Reynolds.

Maximum Effort makes a speciality of bridging media and marketing with campaigns that tap into popular culture, like a headline-generating stunt from State Farm last 12 months around the connection between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce and a “Groundhog Day”-inspired Lay’s effort that was one in every of the 12 months’s best up to now. The agency’s work around “Deadpool & Wolverine” continues that zeitgeist-grabbing approach, pushing the boundaries and breaking the principles of promoting in the identical way that the “Merc with a Mouth” character disrupted comics and comic-book movies.

“I feel what’s fun concerning the Deadpool brand is that we’re not ashamed of selling,” said George Dewey, the co-founder of Maximum Effort. “Marketing is an element of the method and a part of the fun for us.”

Brand partnerships across the third Deadpool film got here from “all over,” Dewey explained: Disney, which added the Deadpool IP to its stable with the 2019 acquisition of twenty first Century Fox, had preexisting relationships with brands like Heineken. Maximum Effort had its own relationship with QSR chain Jack within the Box, while the agency pursued some brands after falling in love with creative concepts, like a Heinz effort that compared the superheroes’ costumes to ketchup and mustard.

“There’s some movies that reluctantly accept partnership dollars, because they understand it’s a part of what gets the movie on the market,” Dewey said. “We’re the precise opposite: we’re like, ‘great, one other opportunity to have a good time.’”

Each campaign has found a strategy to tie into the “Deadpool & Wolverine” universe but stand out from each other. The Heineken ad played off the pair’s rivalry and suggested beer cans were made from the metal from Wolverine’s claws, while Jack within the Box’s spot gave Deadpool a makeover within the kind of the chain’s mascot and promoted Mini Chimi Bang Bangs — a version of the character’s beloved Chimichangas. For each, Maximum Effort has a novel vantage point as producers of the film.

“We have a full view of what is happening within the film, what all of the relationships are on the film, and where the white spaces are, so we’ve a strategic advantage in that regard,” Dewey said.

Previous Deadpool brand tie-ins have featured 7-Eleven, Kraft Heinz’s Devour product and the Mike’s Hard family of alcoholic beverages. At this point, marketing Deadpool alongside brand partners is old hat for Dewey and Reynolds, who’ve been working within the character’s universe for nearly a decade (the agency even takes its name from his catchphrase). Their experience allows them to quickly “gut check” partnerships, approaches and copy.

“We have a shorthand, and we prefer to move quickly,” Dewey said. “We don’t overthink stuff.”

Despite the film being vulgar and violent, the marketing across the brand partnerships just isn’t. However, the incontrovertible fact that “Deadpool & Wolverine” is an R-rated film limits the advertisers willing to partner with it. Categories including alcohol, QSR and food were natural matches and allowed for Maximum Effort’s concept-driven approach to creative.

“The concept of the partnership says more concerning the value of the partnership than nevertheless many above-the-line media dollars they’re spending, because at a certain point, you are going to get awareness, especially on a movie like this, awareness just isn’t our issue,” Dewey said. “What is the partnership doing and what’s it saying concerning the product?”

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