Writer/director Benny Safdie‘s “The Smashing Machine” is a true story that exalts its subject — mixed martial arts pioneer Mark Kerr (played by Dwayne Johnson) — without shying away from the dark ...

The real-life UFC legend, director Benny Safdie, and stars Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt tell IndieWire how they earned each other's trust for the biopic. For Safdie, it involved the director telling ...

Director Benny Safdie and UFC Hall of Famer Mark Kerr discuss the new film starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt that tells Kerr's remarkable story. Mike Johnson Shifts Tone On Health Care As ...

SAN FRANCISCO – A few minutes after concluding the first day of his 11th training camp as coach of the Warriors, Steve Kerr was uninterested in reflecting upon past glories with the team. He was also ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Georg Friedrich Haas has written a piece of almost ridiculous scale and complexity. The effect is awe-inspiring. Georg Friedrich Haas has written a piece of almost ridiculous ...

Kat Timpf got pregnant, got breast cancer, then got back to work on the political comedy show “Gutfeld!” — all as a culture war brews over ambition, motherhood and women’s health. Kat Timpf has been ...

The lyrics to Cole Swindell's new song "Make Heaven Crowded" were inspired by a speech made by Charlie Kirk's widow, but the ballad is bigger than a reaction to tragedy. Swindell's simple suggestion ...

Mark Kerr earned a reputation as a destructive force very early on in his career. In an upcoming A24 movie, written and directed by Benny Safdie, some significant chapters of the former UFC fighter’s ...

UFC CEO Dana White has unveiled stunning renderings that depict what the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fight night will look like on the White House lawn, celebrating America’s 250th “birthday” ...

Innovative Artists Entertainment has signed Mark Kerr, the former wrestler and mixed martial artist played by Dwayne Johnson in A24’s upcoming film The Smashing Machine, for representation in ...

Dwayne Johnson plays the former UFC star in Benny Safdie’s biopic ‘The Smashing Machine,’ due out in theaters on Oct. 3. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief The A24 biopic, which screened at the ...

The firing of historian Tom Alter from Texas State University is drawing attention as part of a broader right-wing war against free speech. But the attack on Alter is also of note for relying on video ...