Dwayne Johnson loves The Smashing Machine despite box office struggles.

According to Comscore, the biopic about famous MMA fighter Mark Kerr made about $6 million in ticket sales in the United States this weeken...

According to Comscore, the biopic about famous MMA fighter Mark Kerr made about $6 million in ticket sales in the United States this weekend, which was the WWE star's worst opening weekend ever at the box office. Johnson, who has been in hit films like Jumanji, Black Adam, Fast X, and Jungle Cruise, was very let down by this. Johnson made it clear on social media that he is proud and happy with his work on the movie, even though the yield was low.

The first thing Johnson wrote on Instagram was, "Thank you to everyone who has watched The Smashing Machine. From the bottom of my heart." "In our world of stories, you can't control how well the movie does at the box office. But I learnt that you can control how well you do and your resolve to disappear and go somewhere else." I will always jump at the chance to do that."
He then praised the movie's director, Benny Safdie, saying it was a "honour to transform in this role" and to work with him. "Thank you brother for believing in me," he said. "Truth is this film has changed my life." As it turned out, Johnson did go through a major physical change to play Kerr. The movie shows Kerr's rise and fall, including his battles with painkiller abuse, his relationship with Dawn Staples (Emily Blunt), and the worst times of his career.

When it premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September, the movie got a lot of good reviews, and Safdie won the award for Best Director. Many people have also said nice things about Johnson's acting, but not all reviews have been positive about the movie as a whole. When it came to its first weekend, The Smashing Machine didn't do as well as Taylor Swift's The Official Release Party of a Showgirl (2nd place). The three-day limited run in theatres made $33 million in ticket sales in the United States and another $13 million from sales in other countries. Paul Thomas Anderson's radical political comedy One Battle After Another came in second.

The Smashing Machine won third place, beating out a re-release of Avatar: The Way of Water, the scary movie told from a dog's point of view. Good Boy and the first chapter of the Indian tale Kantara.

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