hen five sorority sisters of Theta Pi cause women find themselves fighting for their own lives Wthe death of one of their own during a fool- amidst the revelry of an out of control graduation ish prank gone wrong, they conspire to discard the party. Based on the original screenplay, Seven Sisters, evidence and never speak of the nightmare again. this modern tale of revenge served icily cold echoes But when a mysterious killer targets the group a the original’s mix of horror and humor while creat- year later with a series of bizarre attacks, the ing a fresh take on terror uniquely its own. SORORITYSORORITY ROWROW A Karz Entertainment production for Summit Entertainment

Briana Evigan (Step Up 2: The housemother, with Julian Morris Streets) stars with Leah Pipes (“ER”), Matt Lanter (the new Briana Evigan Leah Pipes (TV’s “Life is Wild”), Rumer “90210”), Matt O’Leary (Live Free Willis (The House Bunny), Jamie or Die Hard) and Maxx Hennard Chung (Dragonball), Margo (Dear John) co-starring as the men Harshman (“Even Stevens”), in their carefree world of parties, Audrina Patridge (MTV’s “The friends and sins. Hills”) and Caroline D’Amore Stewart Hendler (Whisper) (“Entourage”) as the sisters of directs the script by Josh Theta Pi, easily the hottest soror- Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger ity on campus at Rosman (Piranha 3-D) based on Mark University. Carrie Fisher (E-Girl) Rosman’s original screenplay also stars as their hard- edged “Seven Sisters”, which spawned Rumer Willis Jamie Chung the 1983 horror hit The House on Sorority Row. Mike Karz of Karz Entertainment and Darrin Holender are the producers; Bill Bannerman is the co-producer, Mark Rosman, Jay Boberg and Josie Rosen are the executive producers. Key production personnel include cinematographer Ken Margo Harshman Audrina Patridge Caroline D’Amore Seng (Quarantine), production designer Phil Toolin (TV’s “Bones”), costume designer Marian Toy, costume consult- ant Mona May, editor Elliot Greenberg (Quarantine) and makeup effects designer Gino Crognale (The Mist). SORORITY ROW was shot entirely in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Stewart Hendler PURE HORROR – CREATING THE PLOT Just a year ago, all things were golden in the wild world of the Theta Pi sorority. Containing the most popular (and hardest partying) girls on campus, Theta Pi was the house to pledge for any self-respect- ing freshman. Theta Pi, then, was a mix of the good, the bad and the beautiful: thoughtful Cassidy (BRI- ANA EVIGAN), who’s romance with boyfriend Andy (JULIAN MORRIS) took precedence over her activities at the house; ‘Queen Bee’ Jessica (LEAH PIPES), leader of the sorority whose quest to be the best included her lassoing of a Senator’s son, Kyle (MATT LANTER); bookish Ellie (RUMER WILLIS), Cassidy’s closest friend and the sorority’s valedictorian; crazy/beautiful Claire (JAMIE CHUNG), whose devotion to throw Megan’s lifeless body into a Jessica outstripped her foolhardy nearby mineshaft and vow never to love for randy Mickey (MAXX mention the crime to anyone. HENNARD), and party monster Cassidy, who with Ellie never con- Chugs (MARGO HARSHMAN), doned Jessica’s actions, must go who never met a beer or a boy she along with the plan because Megan’s didn’t devour in one gulp. body was wrapped in Cassidy’s But on one night, all their lives bloodstained jacket. would change. During a freshmen Flashing forward after a solemn pledge party at the foreboding year of regret and paranoia, the girls Theta Pi mansion, the girls con- now prepare for their graduation cocted a prank that would lead party at Theta Pi house. House- them down an unintentionally dan- mother Mrs. Crenshaw (CARRIE gerous – and tragic – road. When FISHER) leaves the premises, know- the girls found out that Chugs’ baking soda added a nice touch of quarry’s lake if it had air in its lungs, ing that the oncoming party may brother Garret (MATT O’LEARY) realism) upon taking the ‘drug’ and Garret plunged a tire iron into her damage a few lampshades if not rep- cheated on their housemate Megan then pretend to die. chest, killing her instantly – and hor- utations. New pledges are coming to (AUDRINA PATRIDGE), they The girls convinced a panicky rifying her friends. In a flash, the ill- Theta Pi, including Megan’s dead created a plan with Megan to pun- Garret to pile into Jessica’s SUV conceived and deviously cruel les- ringer of a younger sister, the plucky ish him. After pushing Garret to with Megan’s ‘body’, ending up at a son to Garret careened into a Maggie (CAROLINE D’AMORE). slip Megan a date rape drug to aid in lonely quarry where the girls pre- bloody nightmare no one wanted or The new girls will be attending their his conquest, the girls conspired tended to mull what they should do imagined. Although Cassidy imme- first college party while the outgoing with Megan to go into fake convul- with the ‘corpse’. Convinced that diately ran for help, the rest of the seniors will be saying goodbye to the sions (foaming at the mouth with Megan’s body could not float in the women were convinced by Jessica to life they so dearly loved. But this will be a party no one to be Jessica that she follows her won’t let anyone get in the way of resourceful, a person she identified will forget. A murderer clad in a blindly. Ellie is the really smart one getting what she wants. Cassidy, on with in real life. “When I read the black graduation robe will soon be who usually makes the right deci- the other hand, is appalled by character of Cassidy, I kept saying ripping into the fabric that binds sion, but is always quite nervous Jessica’s attitude and fights her all to myself ‘I really like her’. She is the sisters of Theta Pi, hunting about life in general. Chugs is the the way through the film.” the strong, confident person that I down anyone with knowledge of party girl, who just doesn’t care what Briana Evigan, who had turned also tend to be in my life, or at least Megan’s death. By the end of the anyone thinks about her. And final- in a strong and athletic perform- I try to be every day,” said Briana night, only a few sisters will ly, there is Cassidy – the moral com- ance as hip-hop dancer ‘Andie’ in Evigan. “Out of all the girls, she remain…begging for forgiveness as pass of the story who always treats the popular film Step Up 2: The stood out as the smart one with her well as their lives. others well and who has the biggest Streets, was chosen to play Cassidy. head put on right. But I also looked crisis of conscience over the tragic “Briana possesses that sort of forward to doing the stunts. That ASTING THE OVIE C M decisions they come to make.” tough, streetwise feel she had would always be the most fun part WITH NEW FACES Director Stewart Hendler shown in her earlier film,” said of my day.” With the script locked in and thought the actresses chosen for Stewart Hendler. “She came in with For the part of Jessica, the film- approved by Summit Enter- ‘Cassidy’ and ‘Jessica’ should be a non-conformist energy as well as makers would turn to an actress not tainment, the filmmakers turned their strong enough to adequately mir- a gritty athleticism we felt the part as well known as Briana Evigan but attentions to what they felt the most ror their characters’ colossal battle needed. The script had plenty of who also possessed a high level of important aspect would be: casting. of conscience and will. “The best action for her to perform, and we performance paired with attitude: “We liked the idea that each of dynamics in the film would come thought she could carry that. As it relative newcomer Leah Pipes. our main girls would be an arche- from the butting of heads between turned out, it was unbelievable to The youngest of the actresses type, if you will,” said Mike Karz. Jessica, the ‘Queen Bee’ of the watch Briana work.” chosen for the film, she was already “There’s Jessica, the cool, bitchy sorority, and Cassidy, its most Winning the role of Cassidy a seasoned veteran of television blonde who runs the sorority. And grounded and decent member. appealed to Briana Evigan because roles who was just starting to make Claire, the girl who so badly wants Jessica has planned her life out and the character was strong and the step into motion pictures hav- ing just starred in small horror film to looking at the world through the possess something any good horror Rumer is always naturally happy and herself, Fingerprints, which had won perspective of a truly evil person.” movie needs – a bloodcurdling joking on set,” said Mike Karz. “But as Best Picture at the recent NYC For the character of Ellie, the scream. “Rumer Willis turned out to once she got into character, she has Horror Film Festival. “Leah Pipes filmmakers had an agenda: not be perfect for Ellie, though the char- more cries and screams per minute has been the big discovery for us only would the actress chosen for acter was far from what she is in real than anyone in the movie.” all,” said Mike Karz. “Although she the role have to be a seasoned per- life. Ellie is scared “Some girls can scream and had the least film experience going former, but and petrified some cannot,” explained Stewart in, she was a great choice. She was she would most of the Hendler. “Rumer Willis is definite- so charismatic, taking the role and have to time, while ly the cream of the crop. She making it larger than life.” would go on to scare many a The actress, who crew member with that scream had heretofore when we shot the film.” After been cast as the winning the role, Rumer “good girl” in most of Willis actually researched her roles, relished the some celebrated screamers opportunity to get to play someone of the past in horror films with a darker edge. “Jessica is mean she admired to get a feel for and self-centered to an extreme,” what would be needed. “I def- said Leah Pipes. “She can almost be initely worked on my scream a a parody of a person. But this can bit,” said Willis. “You have to also yield a lot of humor and make practice in order to make sure her fun to explore. Playing her it sounds real. One example I would help me see outside of being studied was Neve Campbell’s the ‘goody-two-shoes’ I often play scream in the Scream films. It is like a double-toned scream, very impressive. It is a lot harder than it looks.” Jamie Chung was another actress whose beauty paired well with the physical demands the stunts in Sorority Row would place upon her. Having displayed her ability to handle action in such films as Dragonball, the role of Claire would be business as usual for the young actress. “Jamie Chung is one of the most gorgeous girls I’ve ever seen,” said Stewart Hendler. “And I had seen her kick some ass on television in ‘Samurai Girl’. She came in to read and instantly fit into the dynamic of the sorority group in terms of her looks and presence.” For Jamie Chung, the challenge of playing Claire was the character’s mid-film switch from being Jessica’s sycophant to wanting what is best for others. “Claire is a girl who just the character,” added Stewart In choosing two actresses to play turned out to be such a trouper, wants to fit in,” explained Jamie Hendler. “She loved the humor, she look alike siblings Megan and never complaining through most Chung. “At Theta Pi, all she wants is loved the joke and she blew us away Maggie, a duo of relative newcom- of her scenes, which were shot in to be like Jessica. She starts out going in the audition.” One aspect of ers with television backgrounds cold weather in very skimpy out- with the flow and towards the end of Margo Harshman’s career that were selected. As Megan, the ill- fits. She impressed everyone.” the film you see her going through a appealed to producer Mike Karz fated victim of the sorority’s prank, For Maggie, actress and model transition into being a goodhearted was the actress’ strongly profession- celebrity sensation Audrina Patridge Caroline D’Amore was chosen not person with the plight of others in al demeanor, honed by her many (star of the top-rated MTV series, only for her physical similarity to mind. It was nice to win a role that years as a young television star on “The Hills”) would be able to create Audrina Patridge, but her own biting had this much growth in it.” such series as “Even Stevens.” “I like a character in a genre she had always sense of humor that would benefit For the party-hardy character of the idea ofkids who have grown up enjoyed – horror. “I love horror her interpretation of Maggie. “We Chugs, screenwriters Josh Stolberg acting,” said Mike Karz, “because movies,” said Audrina Patridge. “The had just seen Caroline in an episode and Peter Goldfinger had envisioned they are always so prepared and Exorcist is one of the scariest movies of ‘Entourage,’ said Mike Karz. “We initially casting a larger, louder actress never daunted by anything. Margo is ever made. I am also a huge fan of felt she had the bitchiness to stand up than the petite Margo Harshman. a huge professional. This part was to films like Scream and Jawbreaker, to Jessica in our film, but also the “We first thought the Chugs charac- be a cakewalk for her compared to which are more like Sorority Row.I ability to have the audience feel ter would be a sort of plus-size girl, doing a television series.” was thrilled to play a role where I empathy for her as well. She far big and bawdy and loud,” said Josh “I just liked the fact that Chugs got to spit up blood and cough and exceeded our expectations for the Stolberg. “When Margo came in to had an attitude,” said Margo convulse. I had a great time getting character and really made it her own.” read, she had a totally different take. Harshman. “She’s bold, she’s into character and preparing to A veteran actress would be It was standoffish and dry-humored, blunt, she’s honest and maybe a bit make what happened to Megan look sought for the pivotal role of completely opposite of what Chugs vulgar, which I loved. I love doing as real and horrific as I could.” housemother ‘Mrs. Crenshaw’, a would be. And it totally worked!” comedy, and the comic aspect of “Audrina was a nice surprise for character who would be called upon “Margo came in and nailed her life drew her to me instantly.” us,” said producer Mike Karz. “She to be a bit boozy, a bit overbearing and, ultimately, handy with a shot- starring performance as ‘Andie’ in the Damned at the age of ten oppo- The Los Angeles-area native gun. Only one actress came to the hip-hop dance film Step Up 2: The site her father. Evigan began danc- and resident was a stand-out soc- mind: Carrie Fisher. “We wanted to Streets, a role that allowed the actress ing with renowned hip-hop chore- cer player in high school, a skill have someone fun, someone who to showcase her many years of ographer Shane Sparks when she that allowed her to win the starring we wanted wielding a shotgun and intense training as a professional was seven years old, studying with role in the film Her Best Move, kicking ass,” said Stewart Hendler. dancer. The film earned $143 million him for many years before extend- playing a fifteen-year-old soccer “But we thought we’d never have a worldwide, launching her into a busy ing her training to other choreog- phenom vying to join the U.S. chance to get her interested.” motion picture career that recently raphers. She credits him with pro- National Soccer Team. The athlete Once the actress was sent the included roles in the features S. viding her with the foundation for is also a standout dancer, swimmer script, she insisted on meeting the Darko (the sequel to Richard Kelly’s her future work. She was also the and tennis player. Among her director alone to discuss his view cult classic, Donnie Darko) in which keyboardist and lead vocalist of other television credits are roles in of the film. “We never thought we she stars opposite Daveigh Chase the rock group, Moorish Idol. the series “Parents in Charge”, could get Carrie,” said Mike Karz. and Ed Westwick, supernatural LEAH PIPES (Jessica) made “Clubhouse”, “Pixel Perfect”, “But once she met with Stewart, thriller Burning Bright and romantic her acting debut in 2001 in an “Bones”, “Crossing Jordan”, she said ‘I like this guy…I’ll do the drama Subject: I Love You (shot entire- episode of the television series “Brothers Garcia”, “Drake and movie.’ And we were off to shoot. ly in the Philippines). “Angel.” She won a regular role in Josh”, “Shark”, “Malcolm in the She was so much fun to work with Born in Los Angeles into an 2002 in the ABC series “Lost at Middle” and “Ghost Whisperer”. and the girls loved her.” acting family that includes father Home,” leading to a versatile tele- She also recently starred in the SEVEN KEY Greg Evigan (star of the television vision career that most recently horror feature Fingerprints, which series “BJ and the Bear” and “My saw her star as ‘Katie’ in the CW was named “Best Feature” at the CREAM UEENS S Q Two Dads”), mom Pamela Serpe series “Life is Wild” as well as NYC Horror Film Festival. BRIANA EVIGAN (Cassidy) and sister Vanessa Evigan, she guest in several episodes of the hit RUMER WILLIS (Ellie) most enjoyed an international break- made her professional film acting Fox series “Terminator: The Sarah recently co-starred in the comedy through in 2008 with her spirited debut in the 1996 thriller House of Connor Chronicles”. features The House Bunny (with Anna Faris, Colin Hanks and “Miss Guided”. She was named currently filming the Adam Sandler Who Didn’t Believe in 1997, going on Emma Stone), Slightly Single and ‘Miss Golden Globe’ in 2008, but film Grown Ups from Columbia to appear in such television pro- Wild Cherry (with Rob Schneider). her appearance as the show’s Pictures. The San Francisco native ductions as “Murphey’s Dozen”, The daughter of popular actors award presenter was delayed until has worked steadily in television “Titletown” and “Recipe for Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, she the next year when the program productions such as “Days of Our Disaster” before winning her piv- was born on location in Paducah, was suspended due to a Writers Lives”, “Veronica Mars”, “ER”, otal role in “Even Stevens”. She Kentucky in 1988 where her father Guild strike. “CSI:NY” and “Greek” before has also guest starred on such was completing the filming of In JAMIE CHUNG (Claire) is landing her starring role as series as “Boston Legal”, “Without Country. Her early interest in acting well known to television viewers as ‘Heaven’ in “Samurai Girl”. a Trace”, “Everwood”, “Grey’s led to her film debut at age ten in the star of the ABC Family pro- MARGO HARSHMAN Anatomy”, “Journeyman” and 1995 (billed as ‘Willa Glen’) in the duction of “Samurai Girl” as well (Chugs) is a familiar face to televi- “90210”. Her hobbies include New Line Cinema comedy Now as a co-star (alongside Demi sion audiences, having been a reg- music and surfing, as well as volun- and Then, which starred (and was Lovato and Selena Gomez) in the ular on the series “Even Stevens” teering for charities such as the produced by) her mother. Disney Channel film “Princess (opposite Shia LaBeouf), “Run of Special Olympics and the Make-A- She also appeared in the film Protection Program.” She has also the House” (with Joey Lawrence) Wish Foundation. Striptease with her mother in 1996 been busy onscreen, starring in the and “Center of the Universe” AUDRINA PATRIDGE before turning her attentions to fantasy adventure feature (starring with John Goodman). (Megan) has become a sought after school studies. She returned to the Dragonball: Evolution with Emmy The San Diego-born actress was a celebrity as well as an actress thanks screen in 2005 alongside her father Rossum and Yun-Fat Chow, as well veteran of beauty pageants and to the runaway success of her star- in the thriller Hostage, continuing as winning smaller roles in the community theatre by the age of ring role (and acting debut) in the with roles in the films From films I Now Pronounce You Chuck & eleven, when she began audition- hit MTV television series “The Within and Whore as well as in Larry and Burning Palms. She was ing for commercials and acting Hills”, now in its fifth season. Her episodes of the television series recently cast in the Warner roles in Los Angeles. She made her exposure in that series has led to “CSI: NY”, “Army Wives” and Brothers film Sucker Punch and is acting debut in the film The Elf opportunities in film acting (star- ring in the MGM Entertainment the Los Angeles area, she helped in film Into the Blue 2), television her parents’ pizza business as a appearances (on the Fox Network child before entering modeling at series “Mad TV” and “Do Not age sixteen in New York City. Disturb”) and fashion design (she is Success soon followed, leading her the face of Divine Rights of to appearing in magazines such as Denim). Born in Southern Vogue and Teen Vogue and being California, her early interest in act- featured in print advertisements ing was given a boost by a chance for such companies as Pellegrino encounter with a casting agent for Water and Deere Colbourn hand- “The Hills” while she was lounging bags. She made her acting debut in by her apartment house pool in Los the film Daydreamer in 2007, fol- Angeles in 2004. She is also an lowed by roles in such television accomplished artist and enjoys mar- series as “90210” and tial arts, dancing and kickboxing in “Entourage”. She most recently her spare time. completed roles in the films Rollers CAROLINE D’AMORE and Pizza with Bullets. As a busi- (Maggie) has an aura of ness owner, she recently founded Renaissance woman around her, her own clothing line, D’Amore by having earned a living since the age Marceau, which features her of sixteen as a top model, sought swimwear designs. Along with her after party DJ, fashion designer sister, Bonnie, she has opened her and restaurant owner as well as a own pizza restaurant, D’Amore’s busy actress. Born and raised in Pizza, in Tarzana, California.