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Stomp the Yard

Stomp the Yard

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Release Date: Jan 12, 2007
Rated PG-13

DJ, a troubled youth from Los Angeles attending the historically black Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. When adapting to his new environment proves difficult, DJ finds solace in joining a struggling fraternity where he begins implementing his street-style dance moves in an attempt to help the step team win the coveted National Step Show Championship. Before long DJ becomes the competing fraternity's main rival, while trying to pursue his new love interest, deal with his own troubled past and learn the true meanings of brotherhood and Fraternity along the way.

Director Sylvain White
Cast Columbus Short
Brian White
Ne-Yo
Meagan Good
Darrin Dewitt Henson
Jermaine Williams
Laz Alonso
April Clark
Justin Hires
Harry J Lennix
Valarie Pettiford
Release Date January 12, 2007
Studio Sony Pictures Releasing

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Don't Shoot The Messengers

Mon Feb 05 14:25:00 PST 2007

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Aptly, a horror movie led them all.In a pretty scary box-office weekend for Hollywood, the poltergeist-populated The Messengers came away with the top spot, scaring up $14.7 million, ticket tracker Exhibitor Relations said Monday.Overall, the combined haul from the nation's top 12 movies was down more than 20 percent from last weekend, which wasn't so hot, either. When compared to the...Read On

Don't Call This Epic Gross, Shirley

Mon Jan 29 15:20:00 PST 2007

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Spoof comedies don't win Oscar gold. They just make lots of box-office green.Epic Movie, the latest heir to the Airplane! throne, scammed $18.6 million in its debut weekend, per Exhibitor Relations, topping all comers, including freshly minted Academy Award contenders such as Dreamgirls.Overall, the box office was down nearly 9 percent from the same weekend last year. One reason: Epic...Read On

The Hitcher Gets Stomped Out

Mon Jan 22 16:24:00 PST 2007

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Dancing college kids, marauding dioramas and dueling divas conspired to give a thumbs-down to The Hitcher.The redone thriller about the passenger from hell was the only new release to crack the top 10 at the weekend box office. But the R-rated Focus road trip, which wasn't screened for critics,  could only arrive in fourth place with a non-threatening $7.8 million as Stomp the Yard...Read On

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Take the drums out of Drumline and you've got Stomp the Yard, a clumsy, by-the-numbers look at the competitive world of a complex, synchronized dance form known as stepping, a tradition for black college fraternities. High-caliber stepping is an exciting sight, and Stomp the Yard's... Read On

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