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In The Smashing Machine, Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson is battered and defeated — in bloody fights by his opponents in the ring, and in quiet moments by the world. In the movie he plays real-life UFC fighter and mixed martial artist Mark Kerr, whose dominance at the sport in the late 1990s begins to fall apart as his dependence on …

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 Kerr his own life story, “all the wounds that are still there.” Source link

Dwayne Johnson plays MMA fighter Mark Kerr in The Smashing Machine. Eric Zachanowich/A24 hide caption toggle caption Eric Zachanowich/A24 Movie star Dwayne Johnson has a laundry list of injuries he’s sustained over the course of his career as a profession wrestler and a college football player. There was a ruptured Achilles tendon, a complete shoulder reconstruction and either four or …

Emily Blunt and Benny Safdie don’t share a ton of screen time in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” where Oscar nominee Blunt played rabblerouser-turned-steely-wife Kitty Oppenheimer, and Safdie appeared as “father of the hydrogen bomb” Edward Teller. They did, though, spend time together during the making of the film. Specifically, in the makeup trailer. More specifically, talking about what would become, three …

Roland has largely decided sit out the analog synth renaissance of the last decade. But it’s (belatedly) making amends for that error with the launch of the TR-1000 Rhythm Generator. Unlike previous instruments that tried to cash in on Roland’s long legacy through digital technologies like its Zen-Core engine, Analogue Circuit Behavior (ACB) modeling, and Roland Cloud subscription service, the …

from the everything-is-propaganda-now dept After years of hyperventilation about TikTok’s impact on privacy, propaganda, and national security, TikTok is likely being sold to a bunch of Trump’s billionaire technofascist buddies who don’t believe in privacy and want to use TikTok to spread right wing propaganda. Bang up job all around, especially to all the befuddled Democrats whose hysteria about the …

Welcome to our latest roundup of what’s going on in the indie game space. It’s been a packed week, with tons of new releases worth highlighting and Tokyo Game Show taking place. Before we get started, make sure to check out our recap of Kojima Productions’ 10th anniversary showcase if you need to catch up. I can’t quite get my …

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed the election technology company Smartmatic with false statements that its voting machines helped rig the 2020 presidential election, a federal judge in Minnesota ruled Friday. But U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Bryan deferred until future proceedings the question of whether Lindell — one of the country’s most prominent propagators of false claims that …

One of this fall’s most highly anticipated new movies is an A24 film about a Syracuse University alumnus. Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. The Rock, plays real-life MMA fighter Mark Kerr in “The Smashing Machine.” The movie, directed by Benny Safdie and also starring Emily Blunt as Kerr’s girlfriend, hits theaters next week. Kerr got his start as a wrestler in Toledo, …

This picturesque farm in rural Virginia is Dwayne Johnson’s very private sanctuary, with a well-stocked pond that he usually fishes alone. “Just me,” he said, “and I’ll bring the girls here, and it’s magical. Just the way the property is set up, I never have to see anybody. And I know it sounds crazy, and maybe kind of weird, but …