Stomp the Yard

Stomp the Yard
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Sylvain White
Written by	Robert Adetuyi Gregory Anderson
Produced by	Will Packer Rob Hardy
Starring	Columbus Short Meagan Good Ne-Yo Darrin Henson Brian White Laz Alonso Valarie Pettiford Harry Lennix Chris Brown
Cinematography	Scott Kevan
Edited by	David Checel
Music by	Sam Retzer Tim Boland
Production companies	Screen Gems Rainforest Films
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Releasing
Release date	January 12, 2007 (2007-01-12)
Running time	109 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$13 million[1]
Box office	$75.5 million[1]

Stomp the Yard is a 2007 American dance drama 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 on 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 of 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. Delta Sigma Theta along with other sororities like Gamma Theta were in the movie.

The film stars Columbus Short, Meagan Good, Darrin Henson, Brian White, Laz Alonso, and Valarie Pettiford, with Harry Lennix, and, in their film debuts, R&B singers Ne-Yo & Chris Brown. 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. Elsewhere Short, Alonso and Brown had also starred together in the film This Christmas.