The Venice Film Festival hosted the world premiere of The Smashing Machine, Benny Safdie’s first solo directorial film. The biopic stars Dwayne Johnson as the legendary mixed martial arts fighter Mark ...
Discover What’s Streaming On: Benny Safdie’s first solo feature, The Smashing Machine, may appear as disarmingly simple as the sports movie formula. But he has high-minded aspirations with his ...
The Smashing Machine (2025) Film Review from the 50th Annual Toronto International Film Festival, a movie directed and written by Benny Safdie, and starring Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Lyndsey Gavin, ...
“It says to audiences, this is good enough for arguably the biggest star on the planet,” says Mark Shapiro, president and COO of TKO, which owns both UFC and WWE. “It says it’s meaningful for Benny ...
On paper, The Smashing Machine sounds like an Oscar lock: a transformational performance by a much-loved star, in a real-life redemption story set in the dog-eat-dog world of blue-collar sport (in ...
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s film, The Smashing Machine, received a 15-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival Johnson, director Benny Safdie and fighter Mark Kerr were all moved to tears ...
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 ...
The Rock had won over Christopher Nolan. The comments were widely picked up, in part because they went against conventional wisdom: The screening was on Oct. 5, the Sunday of “The Smashing Machine”’s ...
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