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Dwayne Johnson is swinging back into theaters with a movie unlike anything he’s done before. And, his new film, The Smashing Machine,<\/a> will be going head-to-head with a Taylor Swift movie that’s not really even a movie. Can the Rock survive? Or is what Taylor’s cooking too strong? Here’s how much we can expect The Smashing Machine to make on opening weekend.<\/p>\n The Smashing Machine will be released by studio A24 on October 3 in theaters nationwide. However, A24, despite its excellent reputation, is still very much an indie studio, meaning this movie isn’t tracking for a massive opening. Instead, The Smashing Machine is expected to have a modest $8 million to $15 million opening, according to Variety.<\/a> This figure puts it behind projections for Taylor Swift’s album-release cinema event, The Official Release Party of a Showgirl. (To be clear, the Official Release Party of a Showgirl isn’t a true film, but rather, an in-person promotional film for the new Swift album The Life of a Showgirl.)<\/p>\n The Smashing Machine is a biopic about a real MMA fighter named Mark Kerr (played by Johnson), and is a dramatization of a documentary with a similar title: The Smashing Machine: The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr, which was released in 2002. The new movie is directed by Benny Safdie and co-stars Emily Blunt.<\/p>\n Currently, The Smashing Machine holds an impressive 78 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/a> This includes, as of this writing, only reviews from film critics. The audience score and box office will, perhaps, tell another story.<\/p>\n This story was originally reported by Men’s Journal<\/a> on Oct 1, 2025, where it first appeared in the Entertainment<\/a> section. Add Men’s Journal as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Men\u2019s Journal aims to feature only the best products and services.\u00a0 If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. Dwayne Johnson is swinging back into theaters with a movie unlike anything he’s done before. And, his new film, The Smashing Machine, will be going head-to-head with a Taylor Swift […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2061368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[305874,360534,23084],"class_list":["post-2061367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-dwayne-johnson","tag-smashing-machine","tag-taylor-swift"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Heres-How-Much-The-Rocks-Smashing-Machine-Is-Expected-To.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2061369,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061367\/revisions\/2061369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2061368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is The Smashing Machine’s Projected Opening Weekend Box Office?<\/h2>\n
What is The Smashing Machine’s Rotten Tomatoes Score?<\/h2>\n
The Smashing Machine opens on October 3, 2025.<\/h3>\n