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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s desire to play pioneering UFC fighter Mark Kerr in “The Smashing Machine,” an adaptation of the 2002 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Simon is a Los Angeles-based journalist who covers film and TV. Although biographical sports drama The Smashing Machine is based ...

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 ...

Even thought the Rock’s Smashing Machine movie wasn’t the critically-acclaimed or box-office hit that A24 was hoping for, the studio now has another chance to drum up excitement for The Smashing ...

If you came out of “The Smashing Machine” thinking “that must have hurt,” it was by design. Director Benny Safdie strove to make his biopic about pioneering mixed martial arts fighter Mark Kerr ...

The Smashing Machine, starring Dwayne ‘The Rock” Johnson as legendary mixed martial arts and UFC fighter Mark Kerr, is coming soon to HBO Max. The Smashing Machine also stars Emily Blunt as Kerr’s ...

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 ...

Casting directors of some of this season’s buzziest films chronicle how enlisting professionals lent credibility to the contenders. By Max Gao For the first time in the ceremony’s 98-year history, ...

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 ...