The Smashing Machine is an average movie of an average story that’s elevated by a pair of fantastic performances. Opens Oct. 3, 2025.

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 ...

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.

The Smashing Machine’ stars Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt who spoke to ITV News’ Entertainment Reporter Rishi Davda. Actor ...

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.” ...

The marketing for writer-director Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” isn’t shy about pushing this mixed martial arts ...

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson stars as the UFC fighter in a new biopic, which arrives in UK cinemas this Friday, 3 October.

According to Variety, the wrestler-turned-actor will be playing a 75-year-old man in Lizard Music, an adaptation of Daniel Pinkwater’s cult novel. For Johnson, it meant dropping significant weight, ...

What good is a fight without a win? For Mark Kerr, the Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) pioneer from Toledo, Ohio, winning was everything. Strong, confident and unquestionably likeable, Kerr never really ...

On Tuesday, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson stopped by “The Tonight Show” to promote his new movie.

True to its name, The Smashing Machine is an exercise in brutality, full of crashes, fights and collisions leaving shards, both orthopedic and emotional. The 2002 documentary tour de force chronicles ...

Benny Safdie wants to challenge our expectations of the traditional sports movie. His first solo directorial outing without ...