Nearly a month ago to the day, Fox released the first teaser for Neighborhood Watch, and we saw Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill, Vince Vaughn and Richard Ayoade taking their neighborhood watch position too seriously, interrogating teenagers and firing a mock gun out their window. Also nearly a month ago to the day, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot, and we saw George Zimmerman seemingly also taking his neighborhood watch position too seriously, firing an actual gun into a teenager. The latter has been inciting rage and demonstration for more than a week, and the former has been giving people a convenient point to use the restroom since its release, yet somehow it's taken Fox executives until now to realize, "Ohhhhhhhh, right, we've got that movie. Should we maybe do something about that?"

According to the Hollywood Reporter, what Fox is going to do is remove marketing materials--including the trailer and a poster with a bullet-riddled neighborhood watch sign--from all Florida theaters. Because obviously the other 49 states have not heard about this controversial shooting and subsequent manhunt, so such a localized approach will definitely work. Phew! Crisis averted, Fox!

The studio still plans to release the film nationwide July 27, but is simply moving on to the "second phase" of their marketing, in which they will finally reveal that the larger conceit of the film: an extra-terrestrial invasion. The unfortunate coincidence with the Trayvon Martin shooting will all fall to the wayside once theatergoers realize Neighborhood Watch this is just a fun film about an overzealous neighborhood watch group trying to single-handedly stop a race known in the film world for picking up candy-coated sweets. Phew! Crisis double-adverted, Fox!