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Dwayne Johnson Movie ‘The Smashing Machine' Looks To Bust Way Into A24 Record Books With $20M Opening – Box Office Forecast

A24’s R-rated Dwayne Johnson movie The Smashing Machine arrived on three week tracking looking quite buff this AM with an outlook around $20 million when it hits theaters on Oct. 3. Johnson stars ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘Smashing Machine’ Subject Mark Kerr on “Gut-Wrenching” Ending and Cussing About Dwayne Johnson’s Prosthetics

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 ...
Rolling Stone

‘The Smashing Machine’ Could Frankly Use a Bit More Smashing

With a title like The Smashing Machine, one might expect writer-director Benny Safdie’s first solo-directed feature to be a brutal, grinding sit. The film is based on the 2002 documentary of the same ...
Moviefone

Dwayne Johnson Reaches For Oscar Gold With ‘The Smashing Machine’

‘The Smashing Machine’ is Dwayne Johnson’s attempt at Oscar-level respect as an actor, with director Benny Safdie doing his best to get the Rock there. Not nearly as pleasurably anxiety-inducing as ...