By Melanie Goodfellow, Andreas Wiseman
FIRST LOOK AT DWAYNE JOHNSON IN A24S THE SMASHING MACHINE #dwaynejohnson #thesmashingmachine
EXCLUSIVE: Dwayne Johnson's trip to the Cannes Film Festival in May to support A24's sales launch of the MMA fighting drama The Smashing Machine paid off.
A24 has revealed a series of deals for the film starring Johnson as legendary MMA fighter Mark Kerr, as the biopic begins production in Japan this week ahead of a 2025 US release.
The film has been sold to key partners in the UK (Entertainment Film Distributors), Canada, Australia and New Zealand (VVS), France (Zinc & Bac), Germany and Austria (Leonine), Switzerland (Ascot Elite), Japan ( Happinet Phantom Studios), Latin America, Spain and South Africa (Sun), Scandinavia (Nordisk), Benelux (The Searchers), Italy (I Wonder Pictures), China (iQIYI), South Korea (The Coup), CIS (AMedia), Central and Eastern Europe (Unicorn), Ukraine (Top Film), the Middle East (Front Row), Israel (Lev), the Baltic States (Acme), Turkey (Filmarti) and Portugal (NOS Lusomundo Audiovisual).
