{"id":26337,"date":"2025-09-16T19:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/26337\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T19:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:12:09","slug":"dwayne-johnson-is-the-smashing-machine-in-first-look-awards-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/26337\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne Johnson is The Smashing Machine in First Look \u2013 Awards Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook<br \/>\nTwitter<br \/>\nLinkedIn<\/p>\n<p>Reddit<br \/>\nPrint<br \/>\nBluesky<br \/>\nWhatsApp<br \/>\nThreads<br \/>\nEmail<\/p>\n<p>Benny Safdie shocked the awards punditry community when he won Best Director at the Venice Film Festival for The Smashing Machine. A24 has just put out a first look:<\/p>\n<p>His physical transformation, along with the Venice prize, makes this, in my view, a formidable contender across the board. This is an original screenplay by Benny Safdie, who seems to be driven in many different directions, as is his brother, Josh. I like how they think outside the box.<\/p>\n<p>The Smashing Machine is based on this guy, Mark Kerr. So if you are into MMA fighting then you will probably already know who he is. Getting a \u201cbased\u201d vibe off of this and the Safdies in general. A welcome change and a break from the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>The Smashing Machine opens October 3.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Facebook<br \/>\nTwitter<br \/>\nLinkedIn<\/p>\n<p>Reddit<br \/>\nPrint<br \/>\nBluesky<br \/>\nWhatsApp<br \/>\nThreads<br \/>\nEmail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Print Bluesky WhatsApp Threads Email Benny Safdie shocked the awards punditry community when he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-26337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}