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." In the Benny Safdie-directed film, which also stars Emily Blunt, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although fans were left contemplating their loss of nomination, The Smashing Machine instead gained an Oscar nomination, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just about everything Dwayne Johnson touches turns to box-office gold. Over the course of his blockbuster career, films starring “The Rock” have reportedly generated more than $14 billion in ticket ...

Dwayne Johnson has spent years leading some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters, but during The Hollywood Reporter Actor Roundtable, the global star made it clear that The Smashing Machine was never ...

For Dwayne Johnson, The Smashing Machine was so much more than a job. As award season continues with the Golden Globes on Jan. 11—hosted by Nikki Glaser—the former wrestler opened up about how the ...

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In The Smashing Machine, he delivers a performance full of pain, heartbreak, passion, resilience, and tenacity as Mark Kerr, an MMA fighter who became a pioneer in the world of UFC. Behind the scenes, ...

Arguably one of the highest-rated films of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s career and critically acclaimed, The Smashing Machine directed by Benny Safdie, released in 2025, received thunderous reviews but ...