Roads to Close for Movie Shoot

A movie starring Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller will be shot around Square beginning Friday, affecting traffic.

Film crews will arrive in Marietta Thursday to give buildings around the square an aged appearance, paint signs, cover awnings and replace window displays in stores, according to a news release.

Shots around the Square will be used to portray the fictional All-American city in the Twentieth Century Fox production Neighborhood Watch.

Friday evening, crews will turn off lights around the square and on top of buildings to create a dark, scary, alien-friendly atmosphere.

In the movie, Stiller and three other members of his community form a neighborhood watch group, which is the last hope to save the neighborhood and world from being destroyed.

"There will be partial and full closures of parking spaces beginning as early as 6 a.m. Friday and full or intermittent lane closures beginning at 3 p.m.," director Rich Buss said in the news release.

Movie Insider has the film coming out in theaters on July 27, 2012.

Affected roads include:

• South Park Square and Whitlock Avenue from Australian Bakery to South Marietta Parkway, with intermittent closings of Whitlock from South Marietta Parkway to Powder Springs Street
• Powder Springs Street
• McNeel Alley
• Anderson Street between Winter and Powder Springs Streets
• Mill Street from South Marietta Parkway to West Park Square

The movie has been filming in in and will also be filmed in Smyrna.

Other stars in Neighborhood Watch include Rosemarie DeWitt, Jonah Hill, Will Forte and Richard Ayoade. Akiva Schaffer is the director.

For more information call 404-962-4048.

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