Before Benny Safdie began shooting The Smashing Machine, Mark Kerr gave the filmmakers a wrestling lesson. The movie’s stunt team and others gathered around the padded ring at the Vancouver soundstage ...

The team behind 'The Smashing Machine' wanted to make every slam, punch and knee to the head reverberate all the way to the ...

The Smashing Machine star Dwayne Johnson explains why he looking for a role to 'disappear' into. Emily Blunt jokes she would've 'been pissed' if Johnson and director Benny Safdie, her Oppenheimer ...

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson knew that he needed to feel what his character actually went through to improve a scene. It’s clear from his reaction to finished movie that ‘The Smashing Machine’ was an ...

In The Smashing Machine, Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson is battered and defeated — in bloody fights by his opponents in the ring, and in quiet moments by the world. In the movie he plays real-life UFC ...

Dwayne Johnson trains as MMA fighter for 'The Smashing Machine' Mark Kerr (played by Dwayne Johnson) trains for a major global MMA tournament in Benny Safdie's sports drama "The Smashing Machine." ...

Prosthetic makeup designer Kazu Hiro details his process, right down to learning the actors’ sweat patterns and using seven ...

In 2001, the WWE wrestler turned actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson made his first film appearance in the action sequel The Mummy Returns. The movie is notable not just for how it launched his career in ...

Emily Blunt as Dawn Staples and Dwayne Johnson as Mark Kerr in 'The Smashing Machine' (2025) Ken Hirama/A24/Courtesy Everett Collection Dwayne Johnson brings UFC legend Mark Kerr‘s life to the big ...

It’s hard to believe that Dwayne Johnson received his first Golden Globes nomination on Monday after starring in over 60 ...

Dwayne Johnson on the morning of his first Golden Globe nomination for 'The Smashing Machine' talks about how theatrical can ...