A24’s version takes a different approach. Director Benny Safdie, in his first solo directorial effort, draws from that documentary while expanding on Kerr’s inner world. Safdie worked closely with ...

“I come from a wrestling background, but I might face off against someone who is in jiu-jitsu, or a boxer,” explains a hulking Dwayne Johnson as Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, ...

Despite his all-around success in life as a cultural figure, it's clear that Dwayne Johnsonneeded to hit the reset button on his movie career. The WWE superstar-turned-cinematic luminary became less ...

Becoming the Smashing Machine required disguising the Rock. "It was all-consuming," Dwayne Johnson, star of the biopic about MMA fighter Mark Kerr, tells Entertainment Weekly of how big the challenge ...

Veteran journalist Dave Meltzer has assessed The Rock's portrayal of Mark Kerr in "The Smashing Machine," and discussed whether the movie got things right about the MMA legend's career. A majority of ...

The Golden Globes-nominated actor talks to IndieWire about all the contributing factors that led to this “banging on my rib cage” telling him to make the unconventional A24 sports biopic with director ...

Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” isn’t what you think it is, especially if you think it’s a movie about a British guy who thinks his typewriter is the tops. “The Smashing Machine” would seem to ...

Dwayne Johnson transforming into MMA pioneer Mark Kerr for “The Smashing Machine” and Louis Tomlinson releasing his third solo album are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a ...

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's latest foray into film was the biopic "The Smashing Machine," based on the life of UFC veteran Mark Kerr. Johnson seemed especially passionate about the project, and even ...

The new A24 drama The Smashing Machine starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson represents more than another sports biopic. It delivers a raw and emotional retelling of one of the most fascinating lives in ...