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 ...

In the new Benny Safdie film, “The Smashing Machine” tells the story of mixed martial artist and UFC champion Mark Kerr. The film highlights Kerr during the peak of his career, while also showing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

VENICE, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 01: (L-R) Andrea Romeo, Mark Kerr, Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Benny Safdie, David Koplan and Hiram Garcia attend "The Smashing Machine" red carpet during the 82nd Venice ...

“Winning is the best thing in the world,” Mark Kerr (Dwayne Johnson) narrates in the opening scene of “The Smashing Machine,” after brutally smashing in his opponent’s face to take home a mixed ...

VENICE, Italy — Dwayne Johnson takes a serious turn as UFC fighter Mark Kerr in “The Smashing Machine,” which had its world premiere Monday at the Venice Film Festival. “I have for a long time wanted ...

“I come from a wrestling background, but I might face off against someone who is in jiu-jitsu, or a boxer,” explains a hulking Dwayne Johnson as Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, ...

Now fans in Japan can see what all the hype was about. On Friday, “The Smashing Machine” premiered in theaters in Japan. The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. VENICE, Italy (AP) — Dwayne Johnson takes a ...

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 ...