EXCLUSIVE: A24‘s Dwayne Johnson starring, Benny Safdie directed The Smashing Machineabout MMA fighter Mark Kerr has set a theatrical release date of Oct. 3. 

The news comes in the wake of Lionsgate’s Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, looking to vacate that date as it mulls a two-part. The Smashing Machine pushes its way on a weekend against Paramount’s Derek Cianfrance directed Roofman starring Channing Tatum, and NEON’s next Oz Perkins horror film, The Keeper. That’s the quite the auteur brawl. 

Safdie also write and produced and Johnson’s co-star of The Jungle Cruise co-star Emily Blunt is also in the movie.

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