Four Major Websites to Exclusively Offer First Ten Minutes of Highly Anticipated Comedy Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

-MySpace, IGN, Rotten Tomatoes and Walkhard-movie.com To Preview Exclusive

Footage From Judd Apatow Comedy Starring John C. Reilly-

    CULVER CITY, Calif., Dec. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The first 10-minutes of
 producer Judd Apatow's comedy Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, will be
 available for viewing online beginning this weekend on such highly
 trafficked websites as MySpace.com (http://www.myspace.com/), IGN.com
 (http://www.ign.com/), Rottentomatoes.com (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/)
 and http://www.walkhard-movie.com.
 
     The exclusive footage will go live at approximately 3 PM (PT) Friday
 and be available at least thru this weekend.
 
     This sneak peek coincides with the riotous "Cox Across America Tour," a
 seven-city concert event featuring the film's star John C. Reilly appearing
 live on stage as Dewey Cox with his band The Hard Walkers. The concert tour
 was "sold out" within hours of the announcement of the promotion, and all
 of the concert dates thus far have been S.R.O. -- standing room only. Walk
 Hard: The Dewey Cox Story will be released nationwide by Columbia Pictures
 on December 21, 2007 and will be the only major studio comedy to debut in
 theaters during the upcoming Holiday season.
 
     Streaming of the footage will enable movie fans a chance to "Walk Hard
 for 10 minutes" and experience the early days of Dewey Cox, a music legend
 and infamous rock and roll icon who lived his creed -- "Walk Hard."
 
     Because the film is rated "R" by the Motion Picture Association of
 America for "Sexual Content, Graphic Nudity, Drug Use and Language," access
 to the first 10 minutes of the movie will feature an "age gate" with the
 intent of allowing moviegoers who are aged 18 or over to screen the
 material.
 
     America loves Cox! In Columbia Pictures' new comedy Walk Hard: The
 Dewey Cox Story, John C. Reilly stars as larger-than-life musician and
 songwriter Dewey Cox. Behind the music is the up-and-down-and-up-again
 story of a legend whose songs would change a nation. On his rock 'n' roll
 spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14
 stepkids, stars in his own '70s TV variety show, collects friends ranging
 from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp, and gets addicted to -- and then
 kicks -- every drug known to man... but despite it all, Cox grows into a
 national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman -- longtime
 backup singer Darlene (Jenna Fischer).
 
     Columbia Pictures presents in association with Relativity Media a
 Nominated Films production, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. The film stars
 John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, Tim Meadows, and Kristen Wiig. Directed by
 Jake Kasdan. Produced by Judd Apatow, Jake Kasdan, and Clayton Townsend.
 Written by Judd Apatow & Jake Kasdan. Executive Producer is Lew Morton.
 Director of Photography is Uta Briesewitz. Production Designer is Jefferson
 D. Sage. Editors are Tara Timpone and Steve Welch. Costume Designer is
 Debra McGuire. Music is by Michael Andrews. Music Supervision by Manish
 Raval and Tom Wolfe.
 
     About Columbia Pictures
 
     Columbia Pictures, part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group,
 is a Sony Pictures Entertainment company. Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE)
 is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America (SCA), a subsidiary of
 Tokyo-based Sony Corporation. SPE's global operations encompass motion
 picture production and distribution; television production and
 distribution; digital content creation and distribution; worldwide channel
 investments; home entertainment acquisition and distribution; operation of
 studio facilities; development of new entertainment products, services and
 technologies; and distribution of filmed entertainment in more than 100
 countries. Sony Pictures Entertainment can be found on the World Wide Web
 at http://www.sonypictures.com.
 
 

      For further information contact:
 
      Steve Elzer
      Senior Vice President, Media Relations
      Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
      (310) 244-7142
      steve_elzer@spe.sony.com
 
 

SOURCE Columbia Pictures