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Slated to begin production in October, The House on Sorority Row just got a new pledge!

Audrina Patridge and her spacey eyes are rushing alongside Briana Evigan and Rumer Willis in Stewart Hendler’s remake of the 1983 slasher flick where a mysterious stalker pursues a group of girls after an innocent prank ends in murder and secrets.

If Paris Hilton can manage to scream and die believably, we’ve no doubt that Audrina will be perfect for the role.

Now the only problem is we we can’t decided who we want to die first.

Care to make this interesting?

P.S. Audrina needs to get naked and show off her boobies in the film.

She paid good money for them!!!!

CLICK HERE to check out the uncensored photo!

[Image via Pacific Coast News Online.]

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Did Steven Spielberg steal a movie idea from renowned producer and filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock?

A new lawsuit is claiming so.

According to the suit filed yesterday in Manhattan federal court, Spielberg’s company, Dreamworks, its parent company, Viacom, and Universal Pictures are being accused of copyright infringement and breach of contract for their movie Disturbia, starring Shia LaBeouf.

The suit claims that no one got permission from the original copyright holders.

Apparently, Disturbia is just too much like Hitchcock’s 1954 classic film, Rear Window. That movie was based on Cornell Woolrich’s short story from a Fixed Viewpoint , for which Hitchcock and actor James Stewart obtained the motion picture rights to back in 1953 before filming.

The suit, which was filed by the Sheldon Abend Revocable Trust, claims Spielberg did not do the same.

And, according to the lawsuit, “What the defendants have been unwilling to do openly, legitimately and legally, (they) have done surreptitiously, by their back-door use of the Rear Window story without paying compensation.”

Disturbia grossed about $80 million at the U.S. box office, so we’re guessing they’re a little pissed they didn’t see any money.

The lawsuit goes on to claim that Disturbia and Rear Window are both “essentially the same” story. They’re mysteries which deal with spying into a neighbor’s home after witnessing some strange behaviors.

It claims that the protagonist in all three of the works behaves “in essentially the same way, interacts with similar characters and the plot unfolds in basically the same way.”

Adding that, “In the Disturbia film the defendants purposefully employed immaterial variations or transparent rephrasing to produce essentially the same story as the Rear Window story.”

Those are some big claims.

Even some large publications noted the similarities with the New York Times calling it “a kind of adolescent Rear Window.”

Reps for Universal and Viacom were not available for comment, though Spielberg’s rep declined to comment at all.

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