Earlier this month, 20th Century Fox revealed that the comedy formerly titled Neighborhood Watch would henceforth be known as The Watch.  At the same time, the studio released the first red band trailer, which gave the best taste of just how delightfully juvenile and deliciously foul-mouthed the central group of Richard Ayoade, Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and Jonah Hill would be in the film.

Just hours after the red band The Watch trailer debuted featuring Jonah Hill's character describing the sexual lengths to which he go with R. Lee Ermey, news has emerged of the actor's involvement in decidedly more dramatic project.  Hill is apparently set to star alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street for living legend Martin Scorsese.

Synopsis: An outrageous comedy in which four everyday suburban guys 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 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 summer comedy formerly known as Neighborhood Watch not only has a new title today, but 20th Century Fox has also released a red-band trailer that provides the best indication of just what The Watch is all about.

The film's plot – a quartet of ineffectual suburban dads facing an alien invasion – and the presence of Ben Stiller may have suggested that the film would be a four-quadrant, family-friendly affair, but this trailer is chock full of bad language and dirty talk from the likes of Stiller, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade, and Vince Vaughn.

On Friday, riding high on solid weekend gross projections and an outstanding critical reception, Sony Pictures made moves to get a 21 Jump Street sequel in development post haste.  Now that the film has surpassed initial commercial expectations by earning an estimated $35 million in its first three days of release and met with the widespread approval of audiences, so the studio should be pleased as punch that it already has Jonah Hill and Michael Bacall tossing sequel ideas around.

Okay, let's get the bad news out of the way right off the bat: this weekend's box office was down from the corresponding weekend last year, a first in this so-far commercially robust 2012.  Still, it was only down 8% from last year, when Limitless, The Lincoln Lawyer, and Paul all opened.  This weekend had just one wide release, and that one performed excellently.  21 Jump Street opened in first place, while two very different films in limited release got off to promising starts.

For all the confident lunacy featured in this Friday's 21 Jump Street, the film tackles an issue of great importance amongst today's youth.  Though the film follows narcotics officers undercover to infiltrate a high school drug ring, the issue at stake here isn't drug abuse.  No, it's even more dangerous: shoving your fingers down a friend's throat in order to make him vomit. 

Though the movie is a comedy, stars Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum have taken the bold step of releasing a public service announcement advising us all, "In reality, finger-blasting another man's mouth is no laughing matter."

Synopsis: Schmidt and Jenko are more than ready to leave their adolescent problems behind. Joining the police force and the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school. As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring. But they find that high school is nothing like they left it just a few years earlier and neither expects that they will have to confront the terror and anxiety of being a teenager again and all the issues they thought they had left behind.

Opening in theaters on March 16th is the new action comedy from directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) called 21 Jump Street, which is based on the classic '80s TV series that launched Johnny Depp's career. The new film stars Academy Award-nominee Jonah Hill (Moneyball), who also wrote the screenplay, and in addition features performances from Channing Tatum (Haywire), Brie Larson (Rampart), Dave Franco (Fright Night), Ellie Kemper (Bridesmaids), Rob Riggle (The Lorax), Nick Offerman (TV's Parks and Reacreation), and Ice Cube (Three Kings), as well as cameos by Holly Robinson Peete, Peter DeLuise, and Johnny Depp, who all reprise their roles from the original series.

IAR's very own Dana Gardner recently had a chance to sit down with actors Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Rob Riggle, and Ice Cube in New York City to discuss 21 Jump Street. The actors discussed the new film, their characters, why Hill didn't want to write just another remake of a TV series, Channing's impressive comedic skills, improvising on the set, where Ice Cube got inspiration for his role, how the film's cameos help add a sense of authenticity to the project, and what might happen in possible sequels.

An extended red band trailer for 21 Jump Street has debuted online, clocking in at almost five minutes total and containing what would be an impressive amount of profanity for an entire movie, let alone four minutes and forty-three seconds of a movie.  What's more important than the expletives, though, is the spirit in which they're delivered.  Everyone in 21 Jump Street, starting with leads Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, appear to hitting the same note of rambunctious, hyperactive mischief.  It's pretty damn infectious, and 21 Jump Street looks like a knowing collision of Hot Fuzz and Superbad.