The film drew strong reviews at its Venice screening, and attention quickly shifted to Johnson as a potential Oscar contender.

Since he made his move to Hollywood after his long career in the WWE, Dwayne Johnson was typecast as the brooding, strong guy who always had a snarky comeback. In 2025, he finally made a strong gamble ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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We’ve seen The Rock wrestle, crack jokes in “Fast & Furious” movies, and save the world more times than we can count. But when Christopher Nolan — the mastermind behind “Oppenheimer,” “Inception,” and ...

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 ...