"Neighborhood Watch" will now be known as just "The Watch." Fox
said Friday that the name of the film starring Ben Stiller and Vince
Vaughn as suburban neighborhood watch volunteers who uncover an
extraterrestrial plot was changed in light of the shooting of an unarmed
black teenager in Florida. "As the subject matter of this
alien invasion comedy bears no relation whatsoever to the recent tragic
events in Florida, the studio altered the title to avoid any accidental
or unintended misimpression that it might," the studio said in a
statement. Fox previously pulled early promotional materials for the movie because of the Trayvon Martin case. The
unarmed, 17-year-old Martin was fatally shot in Sanford, Fla., by
neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman on Feb. 26, causing a
national controversy. "The Watch" is set for release July 27.
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