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Alien-invasion comedy 'The Watch' opens

When: 27 Jul 2012
Sources: 2 public sources

Ben Stiller, who led the cast of The Watch, in 2012 Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Twentieth Century Fox released The Watch, a comedy with Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade as suburban Ohio neighborhood-watch volunteers who discover aliens. Fox had renamed it from Neighborhood Watch after the Trayvon Martin shooting.

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PressFox Changes 'Neighborhood Watch' to 'The Watch' After Florida Shooting (opens in a new tab)The Hollywood Reporter / 2012
PressA Neighborhood Watch Goes Alien-Hunting (review) (opens in a new tab)NPR / 2012-07-26

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