The up-and-down-and-up-again story of musician Dewey Cox, whose songs would change a nation. On his rock 'n roll spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 36 kids, stars in his ...

Though "Walk Hard" heavily spoofed Mangold's "Walk the Line," the director never saw the satire as a death knell for the ...

In 2007, “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,” hit theaters and ruined the musical biopic forever. No one was safe. “Ray,” “La Bamba,” you name it; whatever the movie, “Walk Hard ...

'Walk the Line' director James Mangold revealed what "unnerved" him about the parody 'Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story'. Jeff Spicer/Getty Images/Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Nearly ...

So enter “A Complete Unknown,” a biopic about Bob Dylan directed by James Mangold and starring Timothée Chalamet. Mangold was ...

The musical biopic has become something of a genre unto itself. As Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story so hilariously pointed out, nearly every biographical film about a music star follows essentially ...

Mangold did acknowledge that the genre became slightly less popular in the wake of Walk Hard, but he didn’t think that was because of the movie. Please enable ...

In viewing A Complete Unknown, I must admit to remaining mystified that rock biopics continue to get made at all in the wake of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, the hysterically funny and ...

has not been scared off from paying cinematic tribute to other legendary musicians after the parody Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007). “That was just that they had run their course for that moment ...

Did Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox story provide a blistering satire of the beats of the musical biopic genre? Yes. Related: When A Complete Unknown met Joan: Why James Mangold needed an actress who ...