In the wake of posting the lowest wide opening of his career with A24’s The Smashing Machine , Dwayne Johnson has taken Instragram with nothing but words of respect and gratitude for those who showed up.

The Benny Safdie directed movie opened to $5.9M in third, dwarfed by AMC Theatres’ eleventh hour addition of Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl which debuted to $34M, as well as the second weekend of the Leonardo DiCaprio radical western satire, One Battle After Another, which made $11M.

“From deep in my grateful bones, thank you to everyone who has watched The Smashing Machine, ” the multi-billion dollar grossing star posted.

“In our storytelling world, you can’t control box office results — but what I realized you can control is your performance, and yo

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