Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dwayne Johnson stars in "The Smashing Machine," a biopic of MMA fighter Mark Kerr. Kerr had a dominating career at the UFC, which ...

Dwayne Johnson made a “courageous” decision to play Mark Kerr in The Smashing Machine. That is according to ex-UFC fighter and now actor Keith Jardine. Johnson will portray the two-time UFC ...

Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine—premiering here at the Venice Film Festival—is satisfying as much for what it doesn’t do as for what it does. Safdie, who also wrote the script, tells the story of ...

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 ...

A24’s version takes a different approach. Director Benny Safdie, in his first solo directorial effort, draws from that documentary while expanding on Kerr’s inner world. Safdie worked closely with ...

Mark Kerr earned a reputation as a destructive force very early on in his career. In an upcoming A24 movie, written and directed by Benny Safdie, some significant chapters of the former UFC fighter’s ...

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 ...

Benny Safdie wrote and directed the A24 feature that also stars Emily Blunt in the story of Kerr's path as a UFC Hall of Famer. By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter “The last scene was ...

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 ...

Not everyone knows the full story behind the rise of mixed martial arts, but Mark Kerr’s journey helped define the sport. Kerr, a dominant force in wrestling and MMA, earned the nickname The Smashing ...