Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A24’s version takes a different approach. Director Benny Safdie, in his first solo directorial effort, draws from that documentary ...

Mark Kerr is the subject of the movie "The Smashing Machine."Tiziana FABI/AFP/Getty One of the most dominant fighters in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) during the late 1990s, Kerr rose ...

With the new sports drama “The Smashing Machine,” director Benny Safdie and Hollywood megastar Dwayne Johnson want audiences to experience the world of a mixed martial arts fighter through their eyes.

Becoming the Smashing Machine required disguising the Rock. "It was all-consuming," Dwayne Johnson, star of the biopic about MMA fighter Mark Kerr, tells Entertainment Weekly of how big the challenge ...

A24’s “The Smashing Machine” is here. Benny Safdie’s latest, and first solo directorial project, follows Mark Kerr (played, fearlessly, by Dwayne Johnson) a pioneering UFC fighter in its early days, ...

In the role of Mark Kerr, Dwayne Johnson is always playing some variation on The Rock. The only way to describe Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is “larger than life.” You can see it in every frame of The ...

The Smashing Machine, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as true-life mixed martial arts and Ultimate Fighting Championship legend Mark Kerr, is reportedly coming soon to digital streaming. Directed ...

The Smashing Machine, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as real-life MMA and UFC icon Mark Kerr, is coming to digital streaming this week. The film also stars Emily Blunt as Kerr’s girlfriend, Dawn ...

More stories by Kevin P. The makeup effects artist visited Gold Derby to show off some of the appliances used on Johnson, along with the busts made from digital scans of the actor that were integral ...

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 ...

The new A24 drama The Smashing Machine starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson represents more than another sports biopic. It delivers a raw and emotional retelling of one of the most fascinating lives in ...