Stomp the Yard is a 2007 drama and dance film produced by Rainforest Films and released through Sony Pictures' Screen Gems division on January 12, 2007. Directed by Sylvain White, Stomp the Yard centers around DJ Williams, a college student at a fictional historically Black university who pledges to join a fictional Greek-letter fraternity. The film's central conflict involves DJ's fraternity competing in various stepping competitions against a rival fraternity from the same school. The film's script was written by Robert Adetuyi, working from an original draft by Gregory Ramon Anderson. The... film was originally titled Steppin', but to avoid confusion over the 2006 film Step Up, the title was changed. The film stars Columbus Short, Meagan Good, Darrin Henson, Rivah Feseha, Brian White, Laz Alonso, and Valarie Pettiford, with Harry Lennix and, in their film debuts, R&B singers Ne-Yo, Chris Brown and Ryan Michael. Stomp the Yard was filmed in Atlanta, Georgia, on the campuses of Morris Brown College, Georgia Institute of Technology, Morehouse College, and Clark Atlanta University, and in the MAK Historic District of Decatur, Georgia.
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| Release date: | January 8, 2007 |
| Directed by: | Sylvain White |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 115 Minutes |
| Producer: | William Packer, Porter Versfelt III |
| Editor: | David Checel |
| Music by: | Tim Boland, Sam Retzer |
| Cinematography: | Scott Kevan |
| Screenplay by: | Robert Adetuyi |
| Estimated budget: | $13,000,000 |
| Genre: | Musical |