The Smashing Machine is Project to hit a Record Box Office Low for A-List Movie Star Dwayne Johnson. Dwayne Johnson Movies Are Never Guaranteed Smash Hits, but the WWE Wrestler Tourned Hollywood Superstar Has Multiple Billion-Dollar Titles Under His Belt (Including Furious 7 and Moana 2), and his movies have colctivly grossed more than $ 15 billion.
for Deadlineas of Saturday Morning, His New Mark Kerr Biopic The Smashing Machine is Project to Earn A 3-Day Opening Weekend of $ 6.2 Million at the Domestic Box Office. The mma movie, which was directly by Benny Safdie, is Thus Set to Earn The Lowest Opening Weekend Ever for a Wide Release with Dwayne Johnson in a Lead Role.
Johnson’s Previous Record-Holder was the 2010 Action Movie FasterWhich Debut with $ 8.5 million and Went on to Gross $ 35.8 Million Worldwide. f The Smashing Machine Continue on its Current Trajectory relative to Faster, It COULD Leg Out to A Total Considerably Below Its Reported Budget of $ 50 Million.
What this means for dwayne Johnson
While this Low Opening Weekend Strikes a Blow to the perception of how Much of a draw dwayne johnson is at the Box Office, there are a lot of complicating factors that Will Likely Prevent 2025’s The Smashing Machine from being a legitimate flop.
The first is that the movie is a biographical drama, so It is not designated to perform at the Level of Johnson’s IP Blockbusters Such as Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and The Fate of the Furious. Quite a few of his other movies that opened below $ 20 million are similarly Small-Scale non-IP Titles, Including Snitch ($ 13.2 million) and Gridiron Gang ($ 14.4 million).
Additionally, His New Outing Has Been Performing Well CriticallyWith The Smashing Machine Reviews Earning it a Certified Fresh Rotten Tomatoes Score of 73%. It has also generated a great deal of Oscar Buzz for Johnson after it premiere at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival.
If it does Become a Major Oscar Concentr, This Will Not Only Give It A Second Life in Theaters During the 2025-2026 Awards Season, This Will All The Majority of Its Budget Consider An OSCAR NOMINATION WAULD BE ANOTHER FEATHER IN THE CAP OF ITS PRODUCTION Company and Distributor, A24, WHICH WOUL LIKELY BE DEEMED WORTH The Expenditure.
Dwayne Johnson’s 2026 follow-up to The Smashing Machine is Also a Movie that is more or mess guaranteed to perform Well: The Live-Action Remake of Moana. In the wake of bot Moana 2 and the live-action Lilo & Stitch Surpassing $ 1 Billion, IT SEEMS SET TO BE A HIT THAT WILL REASSERT HIS ABILITY TO CONNECT WITH THEATRICAL AUDIENCE.
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- Release Date
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October 3, 2025
- Runtime
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123 minutes
- Directory
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Benny Safdie
- Wriers
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Benny Safdie
- Producers
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Beau Flynn, David Koplan, Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia
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