Posted By James Walsh on 10/06/25


Over the weekend, it was reported that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s film The Smashing Machine had a disappointing performance at the box office with a $6.2M opening after originally tracking at $20M. On Monday, Rock issued the following public statement via Instagram…

“From deep in my grateful bones, thank you to everyone who has watched ‘The Smashing Machine’. In our storytelling world, you can’t control box office results — but what I realized you can control is your performance, and your commitment to completely disappear and go elsewhere. And I will always run to that opportunity.

It was my honor to transform in this role for my director Benny Safdie @bowedtie. Thank you brother for believing in me. Truth is this film has changed my life.

With deep gratitude, respect and radical empathy,

dj”