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Audiences will get a second chance to see Dwayne Johnson<\/a>\u2019s most dramatic transformation of his career when \u201cThe Smashing Machine<\/a>\u201d lands on HBO Max<\/a> on Jan. 23.<\/p>\n

Helmed by Benny Safdie<\/a>, \u201cThe Smashing Machine<\/a>\u201d is a biopic about two-time UFC<\/a> heavyweight champ Mark Kerr<\/a>. In addition to Johnson<\/a>, the film stars Emily Blunt<\/a> as Kerr\u2019s wife Dawn Staples<\/a>, Bas Rutten<\/a>, Lyndsey Gavin<\/a> and Oleksandr Usyk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kerr was a mixed martial artist who fought from 1997 to 2009, winning four Adcc World Championships in his career. Safdie, who co-directed and wrote \u201cUncut Gems<\/a>\u201d and \u201cGood Time<\/a>\u201d with his brother Josh, made his solo directorial feature debut with the film.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Smashing Machine<\/a>\u201d is Johnson and Blunt<\/a>\u2019s second collaboration since Disney\u2019s \u201cJungle Cruise<\/a>\u201d in 2021, and they\u2019re set to collaborate with Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a> on a Hawaiian crime thriller from Martin Scorsese<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite having a low box office opening of $5.9 million domestically,…<\/p>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Audiences will get a second chance to see Dwayne Johnson\u2019s most dramatic transformation of his career when \u201cThe Smashing Machine\u201d lands on HBO Max on Jan. 23. Helmed by Benny Safdie, \u201cThe Smashing Machine\u201d is a biopic about two-time UFC heavyweight champ Mark Kerr. In addition to Johnson, the film stars Emily Blunt as Kerr\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2208832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2208831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u2018The-Smashing-Machine-Sets-HBO-Max-Release-Date.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208831","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=2208831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208833,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208831\/revisions\/2208833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2208832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}