BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Director Benny Safdie throws a lot of cinematic punches in “The Smashing Machine,” the story of MMA and Extreme fighter Mark Kerr. The problem is that those punches either ...

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Benny Safdie have teamed up to bring one of the most intriguing stories in combat sports to the big screen. Their new film, The Smashing Machine, dramatizes the life of ...

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson completely transformed into fighter Mark Kerr for the biographical sports drama The Smashing Machine. Johnson committed to the role so much, he sat in the makeup chair for ...

The Smashing Machine’s Dwayne Johnson revealed that he was deeply inspired by a specific moment in the career of former MMA fighter Mark Kerr. Johnson portrays Kerr in The Smashing Machine, as his ...

The Rock's new movie "The Smashing Machine" is a biopic about MMA fighter Mark Kerr. Director Benny Safdie aimed for the film to be a "truthful representation" of Mark Kerr's life story, but ...

From the opening bell to the closing credits, Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” challenges the established way of doing things much like the sport depicted in his picture. Revisiting the early ...

The real-life UFC legend, director Benny Safdie, and stars Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt tell IndieWire how they earned each other's trust for the biopic. For Safdie, it involved the director telling ...

As a child, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was a larger-than-life figure in WWE, making fun of John Cena’s “candy a--” before their WrestleMania clashes. His acting career never made much of an impression ...

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson underwent a remarkable transformation for his latest movie “The Smashing Machine,” a film inspired by the real-life of former MMA fighter Mark Kerr. During a Sept. 30 ...

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