Ashton Kutcher's 'Killers' helps Ben & Jerry's deliver 862,000 impacts

The release of the Ashton Kutcher film 'Killers' helped a cinema campaign for ice cream brand Ben & Jerry's deliver 862,000 impacts last weekend, according to figures from Digital Cinema Media.

The jokey ad, which was created by Amalgamated, shows clips and photographs of things that are fair and are not fair to highlight the new fair-trade flavour ‘Fairly Nuts’ which contains nut clusters, caramel swirl and caramel ice cream.

The cinema campaign, planned and bought by WPP media agency Mindshare, included spots against ‘Sex and the City 2’, ‘Streetdance 3D’, ‘Letters to Juliet’, ‘Wild Target’ and ‘Prince of Persia’.

In its first weekend ‘Killers’, which stars Katherine Heigl alongside Kutcher in a comedy romance about a couple who are targeted by an assassin, delivered an estimated 214,913 impacts.

‘Sex and the City 2’ continues to perform strongly. It was the second most watched film of the weekend and delivered an estimated 144,947 impacts.

The impact of the World Cup meant audience figures were lower than usual and the third most watched film of the weekend was ‘Prince of Persia’, viewed by an estimated 79,534 people.

Last week the most watched film for the third weekend in a row was ‘Sex and the City 2’ which delivered an estimated 304,048 impacts followed by ‘Letters to Juliet’ which delivered an estimated 161,923 impacts.

 

Total box office figures (18&19 June)
Film Total weekend box office(£) Weekend Impacts Total box office so far (£) Impacts so far
Killers (Lionsgate)  1,053,074 214,913.06 1,053,074 214,913.06
Sex and the City 2 (Warner)  710,238 144,946.53 19,376,325 3,954,352.04
Streetdance (Vertigo)  463,841 79,289.06 10,960,576 1,873,602.74
Prince of Persia (Disney)  389,715 79,533.67 8,035,706 1,639,940.00
Letters to Juliet (E1 Films)  304,319 62,105.92 1,463,111 298,594.08
Death at a funeral (Sony)  287,073 58,586.33 2,128,373 434,361.84
Wild Target (Entertnmt)  282,498 57,652.65 282,498 434,361.84
The tooth Fairy (20th Fox)  249,578 62,394.50 3,375,473 843,868.25
Robin Hood (Universal)  240,842 49,151.43 14,886,310 3,038,022.45
Brooklyn's Finest (Momentum)  203,204 41,470.20 935,868 190,993.47
Raavan (Reliance)  125,130 25,536.73 125,130 25,536.73
Our Family Wedding (20th Fox)  96,385 19,670.41 96,385 19,670.41
Greenburg (Universal)  77,979 15,914.08 283,806 57,919.59
Raavanan (Ayngaran)  72,599 14,816.12 72,599 14,816.12
Space Chimps 2 (Entertnmnt)  71,355 14,271.00 1,565,128 313,025.60

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