Emily Blunt jokes she would've 'been pissed' if Johnson and director Benny Safdie, her Oppenheimer costar, hadn't asked her to play Dawn. The two stars detail some of their emotionally grueling scenes ...

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is punching his way to TV screens with the streaming release of his sports biopic "The Smashing Machine." Though the film flopped at the box office, debuting with just $6 ...

For The Smashing Machine, Benny Safdie’s sports biopic about legendary MMA fighter Mark Kerr (played by Dwayne Johnson), prosthetic makeup design guru Kazu Hiro (The Darkest Hour, Maestro) was ...

The Golden Globes-nominated actor talks to IndieWire about all the contributing factors that led to this “banging on my rib cage” telling him to make the unconventional A24 sports biopic with director ...

On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, in our Cover Story segment, Variety’s Daniel D’Addario steps into the ring to capture the backstory of “The Smashing Machine” and Dwayne Johnson’s ...

Since he made his move to Hollywood after his long career in the WWE, Dwayne Johnson was typecast as the brooding, strong guy who always had a snarky comeback. In 2025, he finally made a strong gamble ...

Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” isn’t what you think it is, especially if you think it’s a movie about a British guy who thinks his typewriter is the tops. “The Smashing Machine” would seem to ...

Dwayne Johnson is up for his first Golden Globe as Best Actor in a Drama for his real-life portrayal of MMA fighter Mark Kerr in The Smashing Machine, a movie that brought him a 15-minute standing ...

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is punching his way to TV screens with the streaming release of his sports biopic "The Smashing Machine." In the Benny Safdie-directed film, which also stars Emily Blunt, ...

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 ...