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The Watch Trailer #3

29 May 2012 2:19 AM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »

Check out the third trailer debut for the alien invasion comedy The Watch, director Akiva Schaffer‘s summer comedy hitting theaters on July 27th, 2012. Four everyday guys, Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Richard Ayoade and Jonah Hill, come together to form a neighbourhood watch group to escape their humdrum lives. Little do they know that their [...]

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- Allan Ford

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A Trio of Trailers for Ben Stiller’s Alien Invason Suburban Comedy The Watch

24 May 2012 5:43 PM, PDT | SciFiCool.com | See recent SciFiCool.com news »

For a while there, I wasn’t sure if “The Watch” (formerly “Neighborhood Watch”) was just a dumb comedy or a dumb alien comedy. Turns out, it’s a dumb alien comedy, though admittedly a suspiciously funny looking one. Check out a trio of trailers for the film, including a Red Band Trailer. I don’t think I’ve seen a raunchy alien sci-fi comedy before, so this is new. Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. 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. The sci-fi comedy stars Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jonah Hill, Nicholas Braun, Richard Ayoade, Will Forte, Doug Jones, Billy Crudup, and is directed by Akiva Schaffer. The end »

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Exploding Cows and Flying Lizard Men Attack in New The Watch Trailer

24 May 2012 5:35 PM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »

If you were wondering, Yes, “The Watch” (formerly “Neighborhood Watch”) is a sci-fi action/comedy. With, you know, aliens and such. Or at least, I’m assuming the film really is about an alien invasion since there are giant alien ray-shooting silver balls and lizard looking alien creatures flying around tackling humans in the latest trailer for “The Watch”. It actually looks pretty funny, which is very surprising. Usually Ben Stiller movies barely make me crack a smile, especially the trailers. Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. 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. Starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jonah Hill, Nicholas Braun, Richard Ayoade, Will Forte, Doug Jones, Billy Crudup, »

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'The Watch' Trailer

24 May 2012 1:05 PM, PDT | FlicksNews.net | See recent FlicksNews.net news »

Trailer for has come online for 'The Watch,' (previously known as 'Neighborhood Watch') its directed by Akiva Schaffer and written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. It stars Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Richard Ayoade.

'The Watch' is about a group of suburban dads 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.

It opens 27th July for the Us, 29th August for Ireland and the UK.

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- noreply@blogger.com (Flicks News)

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New Green-Band Trailer for The Watch with Ben Stiller & Vince Vaughn

24 May 2012 2:15 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

Starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Richard Ayoade in the leads, The Watch looks set to be one of the funniest comedies of the summer.

Akiva Schaffer (SNL regular, Hot Rod) is behind the camera, directing from a script co-written by the ever-brilliant team of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg – essentially, there’s no way this won’t be excellent.

We’ve seen a few great things from the film already, most recently with a new red-band trailer earlier this month announcing the change in title, and now a new green band trailer has made its way online ahead of its summer bow.

“An outrageous comedy in which four everyday suburban guys (played by Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade) come together to form a neighborhood watch group, but only as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week.  But when they »

- Kenji Lloyd

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New Trailer for The Watch, with Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill and Vince Vaughn

23 May 2012 5:41 PM, PDT | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »

On last night's "Conan" episode, 20th Century Fox aired a new trailer for "The Watch" sci-fi comedy, starring Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill and Vince Vaughn. And now, the trailer has been released online. Check it out below. Plot: A suburban "neighborhood watch" group serves as a front for dads to get some male-bonding time away from their families, but finds itself in over its head when it uncovers a plot to destroy the world. The new movie is directed by Akiva Schaffer (Hot Rod, "SNL") from a script by Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg. It is set to hit theaters on July 27th. Trailer: Click here to read more about "The Watch." »

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Second The Watch Trailer

23 May 2012 4:29 PM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »

20th Century Fox has released the second trailer for The Watch (previously titled Neighborhood Watch). Directed by Akiva Schaffer (Hot Rod) and written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (Superbad), the film follows  a handful of suburban dads who end up over their heads when their time-killing neighborhood safety group uncovers a dangerous plot that [...]

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Related posts: Neighborhood Watch Teaser Trailer and Poster The Watch Red Band Trailer First Neighbornhood Watch Photos

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- Allan Ford

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New trailer for The Watch with Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and more

23 May 2012 3:07 PM, PDT | Filmonic.com | See recent Filmonic news »

You may remember Hot Rod director Akiva Schaffer’s new movie The Watch from its formal title, Neighborhood Watch. (The film’s marketing team decided to change the name in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting.) The film stars Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Richard Ayoade, and is about four suburban dads who create a [...]

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Hilarious New Trailer for the Alien Invasion Comedy The Watch

23 May 2012 1:00 PM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »

Here's a hilarious new trailer for the Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn sci-fi comedy The Watch, which follows a group of suburban fathers and husbands 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. The movie was directed by SNL's Akiva Schaffer (Hot Rod), and also stars Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade, Rosemarie DeWitt, Will Forte, and Billy Crudup

The movie looks like it's going to bring the laughs. I thought the last part of this trailer was great. The film hits theaters on July 27th, 2012. Watch the trailer, and let us know if you think it will be as funny as it looks. Hell, do you even think it looks funny? 

Source: Team Coco (http://teamcoco.com/video/the-watch-exclusive-trailer) »

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Second The Watch Trailer

23 May 2012 11:59 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

20th Century Fox has released the second trailer for The Watch, director Akiva Schaffer's summer comedy hitting theaters on July 27. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Richard Ayoade star as four Cul-de-sac acquaintances who start a neighborhood watch group for the sole reason of spending some time away from their families. The group gets much more than they bargained for when they uncover a bizarre alien conspiracy emerging from the heart of their local CostCo. Take a look as things get funky in The 'Burbs! (Warning: A cow is harmed in the following clip.)

The Watch - Trailer 2

The Watch comes to theaters July 27th, 2012 and stars Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jonah Hill, Nicholas Braun, Richard Ayoade, Will Forte, Billy Crudup. The film is directed by Akiva Schaffer. »

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Stiiler, Vaughan, Hill And Ayoade Take ‘The Watch’ In New Trailer

23 May 2012 11:43 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »

With a comedy cast to die for, there are high expectations for The Watch and it has itself a trailer. Starring Vince Vaughan (Wedding Crashers), Ben Stiller (Zoolander), Jonah Hill (Superbad) and Richard Ayoade (TVs The It Crowd) The Watch follows four Neighbourhood Watch dads who protect their ‘hood from aliens. The trailer, it must be said, is pretty underwhelming given the talent involved and has a worrying lack of Ayoade on show – this could be down to his lack of star-power in the Us admittedly, but still he’s great so give him some time. But never a group to force our opinions on you have a look yourself and let us know what you think and if you’ll be WATCHing it…sorry:

The Watch is directed by Akiva Schaffer and will be patrolling a cinema near you from 29th August.

Source: teamcoco

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Watch: Interactive Promo For 'Snow White & The Huntsman,' New Green-Band Trailer For 'The Watch'

23 May 2012 11:30 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »

Once upon a time, you could just release a trailer and people were happy with it: a rare glimpse into a movie that was still weeks or months off. Nowadays, you can't just have one trailer, you have to several, some before the movie's even been made, plus endless TV spots and featurettes and clips and whatnot. And sometimes, they're all combined into one. Universal have in recent years been pioneering 'the interactive trailer,' which allows you to unlock behind-the-scenes clips, trivia and more from inside another trailer, like some kind of promotional Russian doll. And the latest film to get the treatment is the hopeful blockbuster "Snow White & the Huntsman," which hits next week. The trailer itself is, as far as we can tell, identical to the main one we've seen already, but get clicking away, and you'll find a lot more to get you prepped for the film, »

- Oliver Lyttelton

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New Trailer for The Watch Starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and Jonah Hill

23 May 2012 10:37 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

A new trailer for director Akiva Schaffer’s (Hot Rod) sci-fi comedy The Watch (previously titled Neighborhood Watch) has been released.  The film stars Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, Ben Stiller and Richard Ayoade as a group of neighbors who form a local neighborhood watch group and end up stumbling onto an alien plot to destroy the world.  This trailer is essentially an all-ages version of the red band trailer that was released a few weeks ago, with a few bits of new footage interspersed throughout; we also get our first look at the aliens.  This trailer has a few laughs, but as we saw with the red band cut the pic is a pretty hard-r so it’s hard to get a gist of the comedy when it’s cleaned up.  That said, I’m really looking forward to seeing this ensemble of great comedic talents play off of each »

- Adam Chitwood

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Brand New Trailer for 'The Watch' Brings Sci-Fi Laughs and Blasts

23 May 2012 9:14 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

"That's terrible for the cow, but this thing's awesome!" The last trailer for The Watch (the film formerly known as Neighborhood Watch) went straight for the sci-fi plotline after the teaser decided to leave that aspect out. Now we get a little more of a taste of alien action and comedy as Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade and Vince Vaughn find some sort of alien weapon, and take more than a few shots at one of the deadly extra-terrestrials in a new trailer that premiered last night on "Conan." It's short and sweet, but brings the laughs and is quickly becoming one of my more anticipated comedies of the year. Here's the latest official trailer for Akiva Shaffer's The Watch, embedded from TeamCoco: The Watch (formerly Neighborhood Watch) is directed by SNL's Akiva Schaffer (Hot Rod), is about a group of suburban dads who form a neighborhood watch »

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Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade & Vince Vaughn Take Down Aliens In New Trailer For ‘The Watch’

23 May 2012 7:45 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »

Following a title change and new red band trailer, we’ve got a new look at The Watch, which features Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade and Vince Vaughn protecting their neighborhood from an alien invasion. This new teaser, from Conan O’Brien himself, adds a few new jokes and actually gives us our first real look at these creatures, which look to fall under a generic style. But this one is more about the comedy and the improv looks heavy in Akiva Schaffer‘s follow-up to the hilarious Hot Rod. Let’s hope most of it works and one can see a preview of some of it below.

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Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their town has become overrun with aliens posing as ordinary suburbanites, they have no choice but »

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New trailer for The Watch shows guns, aliens, green goo, and frickin' laser beams

23 May 2012 7:37 AM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »

A new trailer for The Watch has invaded the net, featuring the comic stylings of Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Richard Ayoade.  Directed by Akiva Schaffer (Hot Rod), the film follows a group of guys in a neighborhood watch program who catch wind of an alien invasion and take action to stop it.  The trailer doesn't pull any punches in terms of keeping the aliens in question a mystery, letting us know that this is purely a comedy, not a sci-fi adventure, which »

- Paul Shirey

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Mike Ryan: Who Had The Best Showing On 'SNL' This Season?

22 May 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »

"Saturday Night Live" wrapped up its 37th season this past weekend. Along the way, we were paying attention not just to the quality of the individual sketches in our weekly "SNL" Scorecard, but also to the progress of the cast members in regards to airtime and prominence, which we ranked each week in the Relevancy Poll.

Like last season, we certainly weren't going to let that data go to waste, so, we tallied the results to present to you the complete 2011-12 "SNL" Relevancy Poll.

As you will see, the lower the score, the better. And, again, the rankings represent how often an individual cast member appeared on the show, not an opinion of an individual sketch or character. (In other words: These are not my "favorites," this is a barometer of each cast member's airtime and influence.) Each final score is the average weekly poll ranking of each cast »

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Mike Ryan: Who Had The Best Showing On 'SNL' This Season?

22 May 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »

"Saturday Night Live" wrapped up its 37th season this past weekend. Along the way, we were paying attention not just to the quality of the individual sketches in our weekly "SNL" Scorecard, but also to the progress of the cast members in regards to airtime and prominence, which we ranked each week in the Relevancy Poll.

Like last season, we certainly weren't going to let that data go to waste, so, we tallied the results to present to you the complete 2011-12 "SNL" Relevancy Poll.

As you will see, the lower the score, the better. And, again, the rankings represent how often an individual cast member appeared on the show, not an opinion of an individual sketch or character. (In other words: These are not my "favorites," this is a barometer of each cast member's airtime and influence that we kept track of all season here.) Each final score is »

- Mike Ryan

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'MacGruber' to Pound Some Cunth One More Time?

22 May 2012 4:40 AM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

Two Will Forte related stories in two days?  What's the world coming to?  Craig Dietz isn't the only Gtbp writer who loved MacGruber, and while today's news is far from a sure thing, it's still cool to read the brains behind the unexpectedly hilarious comedy are thinking sequel.  Forte may star in Alexander Payne's (The Descendants) next film Nebraska, but we have to believe a MacGruber follow up is in the cards too.

The director, Jorma Taccone (The Lonely Island) spoke to ScreenCrush about the possible sequel to the MacGyver-inspired spoof. »

- Get The Big Picture

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Plans For MacGruber 2 Are In The Works

21 May 2012 8:28 PM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »

If you missed MacGruber back in 2010, you're not alone; the Saturday Night Live skit-turned-feature-length-comedy made less than $10 million worldwide. Despite this, in an interview with Screen Crush, director Jorma Taccone (also of The Lonely Island fame) reveals he and star Will Forte have some ideas to bring the MacGyver spoof back to the big screen.

Read more at We Got This Covered »

- Steven Chaitman

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