TORONTO — Few actors are as well-recognized and easily typecast as the affable Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, but in “The Smashing Machine” from director Benny Safdie, Johnson disappears into his most ...

Dwayne Johnson is downsizing for his next big role. The former WWE star told Variety at the Los Angeles premiere of The Smashing Machine that he’s dropped weight to play a 75-year-old man in Lizard ...

MMA pioneer Mark Kerr joins to discuss the making of the original “The Smashing Machine” documentary, why he decided to open up about his struggles with addiction, receiving the call from Dwayne “The ...

“The Smashing Machine” is a strange one: a bio-drama about the emotional sensitivities of a professional fighter. Starring Dwayne Johnson, no less, and brought to us by writer-director Benny Safdie, ...

The Rock packed on the pounds to portray college wrestler turned MMA fighter Mark Kerr in the deeply personal film he says “turned into more than a movie.” ...

There are some incredible fight scenes in Benny Safdie's UFC biopic, The Smashing Machine. But all of them are between Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt.

"He had these massive shoulders. His neck was huge, his chest, his quads. It was a lot," Johnson said of getting ready to portray wrestler Mark Kerr in the biopic ...

The Smashing Machine’ is Dwayne Johnson’s attempt at Oscar-level respect as an actor, with director Benny Safdie doing his best to get the Rock there.

As real-life mixed martial arts fighter Mark Kerr, Johnson is meticulous in his emotional and physical calibrations ...

They Hayward native, known best as a professional wrestler and action/comedy star, loses himself in a challenging role about famed fighter/wrestler Mark Kerr.

The Rock goes for broke in Benny Safdie's sports biopic about MMA star Mark Kerr — but it's more of a mellow mood piece than a battle royale.

Fifty films in, Dwayne Johnson has delivered the performance of his career - and his life will never be the same again.