Posted on 1/23/126 by Colin Vassallo
The Smashing Machine, the movie led by Dwayne “The Rock”
Johnson in his portrayal of MMA fighter Mark Kerr, is now
available to stream on HBO Max.
Joining Johnson as part of the cast are Emily Blunt, Lyndsey
Gavin, Oleksandr Usyk, Bas Rutten, Ryan Bader, Satoshi
Ishii, Yoko Hamamura, Paul Cheng, Cyborg Abreu, and Zoe
Kosovic.
The movie is based on the 2002 documentary The Smashing
Machine: The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr and
is directed by Benny Safdie and distributed by the A24 movie
studio.
While the movie bombed in the box office, with only
$11,411,388 in the United States and $9,702,919
internationally, it landed both Johnson and his co-star
Emily Blunt two Golden Globe Awards nominations and one
Academy Award nomination in the Best Makeup and Hairstyling
category.