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.” ...

"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 ...

For the past month and a half, Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson has been engaged in a magnificently aggravating public-relations campaign in which he has tried to rewrite history that he himself carved onto ...

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 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.

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.

But, for his upcoming movie The Smashing Machine in which Johnson portrays Kerr in his prime MMA days, he was told he had to gain weight to make his body look accurate. He underwent a 12-week training ...

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 ...

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 ...