“Neighborhood Watch” seemed like a fine title for a Jonah Hill comedy about suburbanites

“Neighborhood Watch” seemed like a fine title for a Jonah Hill comedy about suburbanites battling space aliens — that is, until Florida teenager Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by a volunteer watchman in February. Suddenly, that title wasn’t so funny. The movie, which arrives in theaters Friday, is now called simply “The Watch.” It’s not the only movie to undergo a name change. Here are five other titles you might not recognize, though you almost certainly saw the movies they became:

v “Three Thousand”: The number of warriors in a fantasy epic? A future date in a sci-fi film? It’s actually the price, in dollars, of a night with Vivian Ward, the character portrayed by Julia Roberts in “Pretty Woman.”

v “Comfort Food”: Sounds like something the late Nora Ephron might have directed, right? That’s what Universal Pictures initially called this raunchy 1999 teen comedy, but the film’s eventual title came from its most famous scene: “American Pie.”

v “The William Munny Killings”: Well, it’s a more palatable title than “The Cut-Whore Killings,” but both seem better suited to a horror flick than a Western. Eventually, the movie’s director and star, Clint Eastwood, chose “Unforgiven.”

v “Mechanismo”: This odd title makes some sense if you know the plot. But let’s be glad the filmmakers ultimately came up with “Blade Runner,” Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic about humanoid robots that starred Harrison Ford, shown.

v “Tomorrow Never Lies”: After this script was faxed to MGM, it’s unclear who made the slip-up. But the next day a studio rep called director Roger Spottiswoode to say, “We love your title ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’! That’s going to be it!” And so the 18th James Bond movie found its name.

“The Godfather Legacy” (9 p.m., History Channel): Here’s an offer we can’t refuse: “The Godfather Legacy” is a two-hour special in which historians, scholars and others discuss the influence the Corleone family has had on American culture.

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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

Children’s arts festival at Hoyt

NEW CASTLE, PA.

The Hoyt Center for the Arts’ free annual Children’s Summer Arts Festival will be Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

It will feature a Chalk on the Walk competition for age 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12. Prizes will be awarded for the best sidewalk drawings.

Children can make party hats, sit for a caricature, have their faces painted, and make their own wearable art with tie dye (bring shirt, socks, caps or other items).

The New Castle Mini Stars will perform during lunch, while magician David Lawrence will stroll the grounds and give a stage performance at 2:30 p.m. Tom McNickle will present a painting demonstration at 1 p.m. Other features will include a petting zoo.

The festival coincides with the Hoyt Center’s current exhibit, The History of Animation, which is on loan from the Toonseum of Pittsburgh.

For information, call 724-652-2882.