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EXCLUSIVE: Dwayne Johnson's trip to the Cannes Film Festival in May to support A24's sales launch of MMA fighting drama The Smashing Machine has paid off. A24 has unveiled a raft of deals on the movie starring Johnson as legendary MMA fighter Mark Kerr as the biopic wraps production in Japan this…

A playfully imagined Disney animated character feud might have hit a little too close to home for Paul Walter Hauser. The Inside Out 2 voice actor alluded to some rumors of Vin Diesel mistreating people in the industry when he took offense to a reported comparing him to the actor, who voices Groot in…

Amazon MGM Studios on Tuesday dropped the first trailer for Red One, its long teased holiday event film from director Jake Kasdan (Jumanji franchise), which stars Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans. While plot details had been under wraps to this point, the story will pick up after Santa Claus – Code…

UPDATED, 4:14 p.m.: After suffering a fairly nasty looking injury to his right elbow on the set of A24’s wrestling pic The Smashing Machine, Dwayne Johnson has revealed that he’s back to work, offering an update on his situation. “Elbow got kissed by the boo boo monster 👹 💪🏾 No extensive tissue…

EXCLUSIVE: Following his massive victory against Tyson Fury to become the newly crowned Undisputed World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Oleksandr Usyk has found his next opponent on the big screen as he is set to join the cast of A24’s The Smashing Machine as MMA legend Igor Vovchanchyn. The film stars…

Dwayne Johnson is almost unrecognizable as MMA legend Mark Kerr in a first look at A24’s The Smashing Machine. A24 posted the teaser for Benny Safdie’s feature on social media after Johnson flew into Cannes last week to meet with buyers about the UFC story. In the still, The Rock is shorn of his…

EXCLUSIVE: We understand Dwayne Johnson is due to be at the Cannes market next week to discuss upcoming A24 wrestling pic The Smashing Machine with potential buyers. Of course, schedules can always change, but the plan at the moment is for The Rock to rock the Cannes market middle of next…

Editors note: This is one of those moments when the flow of news seems like an assault on the senses. The Donald trump trial, the student protests, Gaza, the election campaigning — will our trust in the media survive these traumas? Can our pop culture assimilate them? Peter Bart, based on the West Coast, a…

Disney truly saved the best for last at CinemaCon — and that’s Dwayne Johnson. You can’t call it a CinemaCon without the action star, who is a regular here. Before he stepped onstage, a group of Hawaiian dancers and percussionists performed. They were shortly joined by the man who voices the film’s…

John Cena is giving his thoughts on the long-standing feud between Fast & Furious co-stars, Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel. The WWE star made an appearance on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, where he talked about the behind-the-scenes drama. “There’s certainly rumors about that. I can’t…

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson said in an interview with Fox & Friends that he won’t make an endorsement in this year’s presidential race, after having thrown his support to Joe Biden in the last cycle. In an interview with Will Cain, Johnson said, “The endorsement that I made years ago with Biden was…

It’s official. The U.S. government has decreed that there’s only one person who can legally use “The Rock” in commerce, and that’s Dwayne Johnson. An SEC filing by TKO, the parent of the WWE, indicates Johnson has joined its board of directors. The paperwork also shows Johnson now legally holds the…