Before "The Smashing Machine" was a 2025 film starring Dwayne Johnson, it was a 2002 documentary about Mark Kerr, directed by ...

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is gearing up for his most dramatic transformation yet in The Smashing Machine. If you want to learn more about the real Mark Kerr story, there’s a simple way to watch the ...

Director Benny Safdie tells EW that his A24 biopic delves deeper into Kerr's story than what was shown in HBO's 2002 ...

"The Smashing Machine" deserves to be considered in the pantheon of MMA filmmaking, with excellent performances from Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, even if the movie relies heavily on the documentary ...

Johnson's performance as MMA fighter Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie's "The Smashing Machine" is our glimpse of his Oscar-seeking ...

With performances from Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, and incredible storytelling, "The Smashing Machine" is the undisputed champion of MMA films.

In The Smashing Machine documentary, graphic footage is shown of Kerr injecting narcotics in a bid to numb his pain. His girlfriend and later wife, Dawn, who will be played in the film adaptation by ...