The Smashing Machine (2025) - Credits and Details

The Smashing Machine Credits and Details

Directed by
	Benny Safdie	...	directed by
Written by
	Benny Safdie	...	written by
Cast
	Dwayne Johnson	...	Mark Kerr
	Kenny Rice	...	Vale Tudo Announcer
	Jerin Valel	...	Sergio Batarelli
	Andre Tricoteux	...	Paul Varelans
	James McSweeney	...	Varelans' Cornerman
	Jonathan Corbblah	...	UFC 1997 Interviewer
	Ryan Bader	...	Mark Coleman
	Ilan Rosenberg	...	Coleman's Cornerman
	Nick Toren	...	UFC 1977 Photojournalist
	Jill Basey	...	Peggy
	Bethany Brown	...	Nurse
	Raja Flores	...	Dr. Cortez
	Randi Lynne	...	Receptionist
	Emily Blunt	...	Dawn Staples
	Soichi Sato	...	Window Seat Passenger
	Takaaki Nagata	...	Taxi Driver
	Jugo Hashimoto	...	Vespa Driver
	Haruo Tokashiki	...	Pride 1999 Official
	Yasuhiro Nakatsuka	...	Pride 1999 Journalist #1 (as Yas Nakatsuka)
	Hiroko Taki	...	Small Shopkeeper
	Oleksandr Usyk	...	Igor Vovchanchyn
	Hironori Kamoshita	...	Pride 1999 Journalist #2
	Egidiyus Klimas	...	Igor's Manager
	Yasuko Mitsuura	...	Pride Director
	Shinpei Otsuki	...	Pride Translator
	Olga Dzyurak	...	Igor's Translator
	Takeshi Kurokawa	...	Flight Attendant
	Tomoka Kobayashi	...	Pride 1999 Employee
	Tak Sasaki	...	Pride 1999 Referee
	Chris Franco	...	Igor's Cornerman
	Takao Osawa	...	Mr. Sakakibara
	Midori Takiya	...	Mr. Sakakibara's Translator
	Naoshi Sasaki	...	Pride 1999 Pharmacist
	Zoe Kosovic	...	McKenzie Coleman
	Lyndsey Gavin	...	Kelley Coleman
	Rina Shimomura	...	Pride 1999 Journalist #3
	Royal Johnston	...	Gravitron Operator
	Whitney Moore	...	Jaqueline
	Adrianne Lovato	...	Waiter
	Tomoya Naka	...	Pride 2000 Photographer
	Yûki Kedôin	...	Pride 2000 Photographer (as Yuki Kedoin)
	Bas Rutten	...	Bas
	Joshua Mazerolle	...	HGE Sparring Partner
	Jason William Day	...	HGE Sparring Partner (as Jason Day)
	Stephen Quadros	...	Stephen Quadros
	Tomoyasu Hotei	...	Tomoyasu Hotei
	Nala Sinephro	...	Star Spangled Banner Performer
	Satoshi Ishii	...	Enson Inoue
	Yoko Hamamura	...	Kazuyuki Fujita
	Ryan Ventura	...	Pride 2000 Announcer
	Paul Wu	...	Pride 2000 Referee
	Gary Copeland	...	Kerr / Inoue Referee (as Gary L. Copeland)
	Jaime Fair	...	Phoenix Barber
	Jordan Greer	...	Ohio State Wrestling Partner
	Byron Capers	...	Phoenix Police Officer
	Eiji Yoshikawa	...	Pride 2000 Journalist
	Mark Kerr	...	Mark Kerr
	Annette Alvarado	...	Grocery Store Cashier
	Marcus Aurelio	...	Mestre Hulk
	Roberto de Abreu Filho	...	Fabio Gurgel (as Roberto Abreu)
	Lance Gibson	...	UFC Contender
	James Moontasri	...	Akira Shoji
	Paul Cheng	...	Masaaki Satake
	Yushin Okami	...	Alexander Otsuka
	Marcus Vinicios	...	Ebenezer Fontes Braga
	Adam Santos	...	Ricardo Morais
	Christopher Ackerman	...	Demolition Derby Announcer
	Shawn C. Orr	...	Demolition Derby Driver (as Shawn Orr)
	Brett Randy Bourgeois	...	Demolition Derby Driver
	Scott Meloshinsky	...	Demolition Derby Driver
	Hugo Steele	...	Firefighter
	Brennan Walstrom	...	Firefighter
Uncredited Cast
	Jason Broadwell	...	Grocery Store Patron
	Ismail Elfallahi	...	Derby Fan
	Charles Chi Soo Kim	...	Tokyo Dome Wrestling Fan
	Kirk Langer	...	Bruce Buffer
	Paul Lazenby	...	Hans Nijman
	Rady Panov	...	UFC 1997 Photographer
	Jasper Salon	...	Cutman
	Nina Sugii	...	Japanese Hotel Guest / fan
	Naoki Tasaki	...	Journalist
	Jason Tremblay	...	Arizona Police Officer
	Taylor Trujillo	...	Burger Joint Patron
	Yugo Yamada	...	Voix additionnelles françaises
	Lawrence Yang	...	MMA Trainer of Masaaki Satake; Cameraman
Produced by
	Eli Bush	...	producer
	Misako Furukawa	...	line producer: Japan
	Dany Garcia	...	producer
	Hiram Garcia	...	producer
	Kevin Goodman	...	consulting producer
	Jon Greenhalgh	...	consulting producer
	Amie Horiuchi	...	associate producer: Japan
	John Hyams	...	consulting producer
	Dwayne Johnson	...	producer
	David Koplan	...	producer
	Tracey Landon	...	executive producer
	Greg O'Connor	...	consulting producer
	Georgina Pope	...	producer: Japan unit
	Benny Safdie	...	producer
Original Music by
	Nala Sinephro	...	music by
Special Effects by
	Paul Benjamin	...	special effects supervisor
	Mike Kruper	...	special effects supervisor
Visual Effects by
	Prashant Agrawal	...	outsource producer: Dream Machine FX
	Alfredo Octavio Arango	...	senior tracking/layout artist: Dream Machine FX
	Fernando Arbelaez	...	Lead Digital Compositor: Dream Machine FX
	Prosenjit Bagchi	...	production assistant: Dream Machine FX
	Julia Bellinger	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX
	Pierre-Etienne Berube	...	animator: Dream Machine FX
	David Bessette	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX / digital compositor
	Ruchika Bhattacharya	...	CG Production Coordinator
	Raz Boca	...	IO coordinator: Dream Machine FX
	Gaëtan Borneuf	...	senior digital matte painter artist: Dream Machine FX
	Brent Boulet	...	visual effects supervisor
	Dan Cayer	...	visual effects supervisor: Dream Machine FX
	Guillaume Cazabat	...	lighting artist: Dream Machine FX
	Thana Cha	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX
	Dan Charbit	...	visual effects supervisor: Dream Machine FX
	J.M. Chen	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX
	Jin Yan Cheng	...	cg supervisor: Dream Machine FX
	Eunwon Cho	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX
	Shwee Chou	...	visual effects producer: New Moon Studios
	Isabelle Clermont	...	VFX editor: Dream Machine FX
	Annie Cliche	...	visual effects producer: Dream Machine FX
	David Cunningham	...	environment artist: Dream Machine FX
	Sean Devereaux	...	visual effects supervisor
	Sujoy Dey	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX / digital compositor
	Brian Dignadice	...	Senior Lighting Artist
	Brian Drewes	...	VFX Executive Producer
	Robyn Ducharme	...	compositor
	Maika Duperval	...	junior production coordinator: Dream Machine FX
	Chris Elmer	...	lighting & lookdev lead: Dream Machine FX
	Matthew Friedlander	...	VFX art director: Dream Machine FX
	Emmanouil Galanakis	...	environment artist: Dream Machine FX
	Karen-Emmanuelle Galbrun	...	visual effects production manager: Dream Machine FX
	Kyle Gallagher	...	visual effects artist
	Céline Gauchon	...	visual effects production manager: Dream Machine FX
	Nitin Gite	...	asset artist: Dream Machine FX
	Jean Paul Simard Godoy	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX
	Claudio Gonzalez	...	senior digital compositor: Zero VFX
	Nancy Gonzalez	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX / digital compositor
	Nicolas Guyon	...	digital compositor
	Kristina Hall	...	head of production: Dream Machine FX
	Pola Hany	...	Senior Nuke Compositor
	Emilio Hernández	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX
	Eugénie Holgado	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX
	Brian Houlihan	...	visual effects supervisor: Five AM FX
	Rui Huang	...	crowd artist: Dream Machine FX
	Ed Hudson	...	IO coordinator: Dream Machine FX
	Besar Ismaili	...	compositor / compositor: Dream Machine FX
	Sarah Jones	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX
	Susanna Josef	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX / digital compositor
	Aglae Joubert	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX
	Sunil Kadam	...	environment artist: Dream Machine FX
	Christoph Kadri	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX
	Jin Yong Kim	...	lead tracking artist: Dream Machine FX
	Anthony Kramer	...	digital artist: Nexodus
	Etienne Leclerc	...	surfacing artist: Dream Machine FX
	Wensen Liang	...	FX artist: Dream Machine FX / fx & cg artist
	Don Libby	...	Visual effects supervisor: ZeroVFX
	Anu Liikkanen	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX
	Hsiao-Ching Lin	...	senior visual effects artist: New Moon Studios
	Al Lopez	...	head of studio: Dream Machine FX
	Sean Loughran	...	digital compositor: Zero VFX
	Jared MacIntyre	...	visual effects editor
	Chris MacKenzie	...	VFX Lead Artist
	Deniz Mani Yiacoup	...	junior CG generalist: Dream Machine FX
	Samantha McLaughlin	...	visual effects coordinator
	Diana Moneva	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX / digital compositor
	Alejandro Monzon	...	senior compositor: Five AM FX
	Farzin Mottaghi	...	Senior Compositor
	Eddy Moussa	...	compositing supervisor
	Drake Murphy	...	IO coordinator: Dream Machine FX
	Davy Nethercutt	...	Senior Compositor: Zero VFX / compositor: Dream Machine FX
	Foteini Nikidi	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX
	Dave Normand	...	animation supervisor: Dream Machine FX
	Erin Novak	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX
	Guillaume Palegie	...	compositing supervisor: Dream Machine FX
	Olivier Pic	...	lighting artist: Dream Machine FX
	David Pietricola	...	CG lead: Dream Machine FX
	Jessica Pillitz	...	production coordinator: Dream Machine FX
	Rohan Ponda	...	CG generalist: Dream Machine FX
	Yue Qiao	...	lead lighting artist: Dream Machine FX
	Shitian Qiu	...	environment artist: Dream Machine FX
	Kyle Raffile	...	cg supervisor: Dream Machine FX
	Geena Renk	...	vfx production manager
	Manish Rohith	...	compositor
	Mauricio Salas	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX / digital compositor
	Kevin Samar	...	compositor / compositor: Dream Machine FX
	Romeo Ulalan Santos	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX
	Julien Sellier	...	CG generalist: Dream Machine FX
	Paul-Jean Serrano	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX / digital compositor
	Fiaz Shaikh	...	asset artist: Dream Machine FX
	Nishad Shelar	...	asset supervisor: Dream Machine FX
	Jennifer Joyce Signorella	...	visual effects editor
	Steven Spady	...	visual effects supervisor: Dream Machine FX
	Pembrooke St. Cyr	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX
	Saveria Sturino	...	VFX editor: Dream Machine FX
	Daniel Triller	...	visual effects editor
	Michael J. Viera	...	compositing supervisor: Dream Machine FX
	Sergio Villegas	...	matchmove supervisor: ZeroVFX
	Pola Wassef	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX
	Ryan Wieber	...	digital compositor
	Nathan Winspear	...	supervising vfx editor
	Jill Wu	...	digital matte painter artist: Dream Machine FX
	Radoslav Yanudov	...	compositor: Dream Machine FX
	Chen Yu-Hsuan	...	senior visual effects artist: New Moon Studios
	Eva Zemaitis	...	VFX Editor: Mavericks VFX
	Tom Zils	...	compositing supervisor: Dream Machine FX
	Chanthiran Ranjith	...	paint/prep artist
Stunts
	James Coupland	...	stunt performer
	Jason William Day	...	stunt performer
	Yoko Hamamura	...	stunt performer
	Ryan Handley	...	igor stunt double
	Satoshi Ishii	...	stunt actor
	Kirk A. Jenkins	...	fight coordinator
	Rasmus Kröger	...	stunt office coordinator
	Paul Lazenby	...	stunt actor
	Kyle Mclean	...	assistant stunt coordinator
	James Moontasri	...	mixed martial arts coordinator
	Greg Rementer	...	supervising stunt coordinator
	Hugo Steele	...	stunt performer
	Brennan Walstrom	...	stunt performer
	Paul Wu	...	stunt coordinator
Thanks
	Ted Barron	...	special thanks
	Noah Britton	...	special thanks
	Ari Emanuel	...	special thanks
	Steven Hyden	...	special thanks
	Frankie Mendez	...	special thanks
	Sam Rabinowitz	...	special thanks
	Richard Sachs	...	special thanks
	Mark Shapiro	...	special thanks
	Brad Slater	...	special thanks
	Kelly Warburton	...	special thanks
	Dana White	...	special thanks

Additional Info
Premiere:	September 01, 2025
Theatrical Release:	October 03, 2025
Blu-ray Release:	January 06, 2026
Countries:
Distributor:	A24
Websites:

Ratings
6.4 / 10	65 / 100

Production Companies
A24
Magnetic Fields Entertainment
Out for the Count
Seven Bucks Productions

Distributors
A24 (2025) (United States) (theatrical)
Amazon Prime Video (2025) (United States) (VOD) (video)
Apple TV+ (2025) (United States) (VOD) (video)
HBO Max (2025) (United States) (VOD) (video)

Filming Locations
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
British Columbia, Canada
Canada
Japan
New Mexico, USA
Tokyo, Japan
USA
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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