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 "The Rock" Johnson wants to be taken seriously as an actor. (Photo Illustration: Carl Godfrey for Yahoo News; photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) In The Smashing Machine, Dwayne “The Rock” ...

Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt talk 'The Smashing Machine' The stars discuss their roles in the movie about fighter Mark Kerr, whose rise to the top is tested by personal struggles. October 2, 2025 ...

Mark Kerr and the makers of the new A24 film 'The Smashing Machine' talk about how they collaborated to tell Kerr's true story in all its complexity.

“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, ...

Here are the films to see this month, including Dwayne Johnson as an MMA star, the return of Daniel Day-Lewis and Julia Roberts in Luca Guadagnino's campus drama.

The marketing for writer-director Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” isn’t shy about pushing this mixed martial arts biopic as Dwayne Johnson’s Oscar bid. For this film, the artist formerly known ...

As Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt reunite onscreen for 'The Smashing Machine', the pair is already looking forward to their next project together.

Dwayne Johnson shared a nice story about that viral moment, which he says was all about the movie’s subject, Mark Kerr.

Individuals who have been asked to gain weight, are usually told to just eat fast food everyday, but that was not an option. In this part, he required a sleek, sturdy, and able to perform without ...

Benny Safdie wrote, directed, co-produced and edited "The Smashing Machine," a new American biographical sports drama film. Based on the 2002 documentary "The Smashing Machine: The Life and Times of ...

You only need to see its trailer to know that “The Smashing Machine” is one such film, a vehicle par excellence for Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. the Rock. He’s starred in plenty of movies to date, but ...