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The Watch (previously known as Neighborhood Watch) [3] is a 2012 American science fiction action-comedy film directed by Akiva Schaffer and written by Jared Stern, Seth Rogen, and Evan Goldberg. It stars Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Richard Ayoade.
The Watch: Directed by Akiva Schaffer. With Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade. Four men who form a neighborhood watch group as a way to get out of their day-to-day family routines find themselves defending the Earth from an alien invasion.
- (134K)
- Comedy, Sci-Fi
- Akiva Schaffer
- 2012-07-27
But when they accidentally discover that their town has become overrun with aliens posing as ordinary suburbanites, they have no choice but to save their neighborhood -- and the world -- from total extermination.
- (68)
- Doug Jones
- Akiva Schaffer
- Premise
- Production
- Release
A group of suburbanites (Stiller, Vaughn, Hill, and Ayoade) form a neighborhood watch group to allow them time to escape from their families and boring lives. However, when the group discovers an alien plot that threatens the entire world, they are forced to confront it head on.
Development
The film entered development as Neighborhood Watch in early 2008, with Levy developing the project over three years based on an idea by 20th Century Fox executive John Fox. Levy described his original vision as a "PG-13 kind of Ghostbusters-y thing."The original screenplay was written by Jared Stern.In May 2009, David Dobkin and Will Ferrell were in talks to direct and star respectively, with Dobkin's involvement progressing as far as him submitting revisions to Stern's script. However, by Au...
Filming
Principal photography began in October 2011 in Georgia, with filming occurring in Atlanta, including Inman Park,and several areas in Cobb County including the Oakleigh,Echo Mill, and Amberton subdivisions in the city of Powder Springs.Filming also took place at the Marietta Square in the city of Marietta, where businesses were renamed and an alleyway behind Hemingway's Bar & Grill was treated to artificially age the buildings.One of the Marietta scenes filmed involved a young boy on a skatebo...
Marketing
The Neighborhood Watch marketing campaign began on February 29, 2012, with the release of a teaser poster, trailer and the unveiling of the film's website, jointhewatch.com.On March 27, 2012, it was reported that 20th Century Fox had the poster and trailer removed from Florida theaters in response to the increasing controversy concerning the February shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman. The trailer featured Hill, imitating a gun...
The premiere of The Watch took place on July 23, 2012, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.It was released in North America on July 27, 2012. On July 25, 2012, Harkins Theatres, the sixth-largest North American cinema chain, announced it would not be showing the film after failing to reach a financial agreement with Fox.
The Watch (previously known as Neighborhood Watch) is a 2012 American science fiction comedy film directed by Akiva Schaffer and written by Jared Stern, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. It stars Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade.
- 3 min
In Glenview, Ohio, four pals -- Evan (Ben Stiller), Bob (Vince Vaughn), Franklin (Jonah Hill) and Jamarcus (Richard Ayoade) -- form a neighborhood watch group.
- (166)
- Comedy, Sci-Fi
- R
When the Costco night watchman, Antonio Guzman, is mysteriously murdered, Evan organizes The Neighborhood Watch, a watch team with his suburban neighbors Bob, Franklin and Jamarcus to protect the neighborhood and find the killer of Antonio.
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