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A new play by Anna Deavere Smith about tennis icon Billie Jean King is in development, with Marc Bruni (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical) set to direct. A reading in August is planned as part of the New York Stage and Film 2022 Summer Season. Love All is described as the story of “the rise of sports icon and…

EXCLUSIVE: Tennis great Billie Jean King has signed to narrate a docuseries that will tell stories of pay inequities, motherhood, LGBTQ+ rights, and intersectionality and diversity in women's sports. Glamour and Condé Nast Entertainment, along with King and Little Monster Films, are producing a series to show the…

Ellen DeGeneres, Elton John and Billie Jean King are among celebrities to follow George Clooney’s lead in calling for a boycott of hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei, who on Wednesday introduced strict new laws in his country including sentences of stoning to death for adultery and homosexual sex. Starting today…

A firestorm ignited in 1973 when retired tennis pro Bobby Riggs, a hustler and gambler looking for new prey, challenged reigning tennis queen Billie Jean King to a match to prove that a female champ was far inferior to anyone on the men’s tour — even an old-timer in his mid-50s. She turned it down at first, but after…

Emma Stone returned in triumph to the Telluride Film Festival this afternoon for the 1 pm World Premiere of Battle Of The Sexes at the Galaxy. She was here for the first time last year with La La Land, starting her march toward the Best Actress Oscar six months later. This time around she is extraordinary again…

Oscar winner Emma Stone said in an interview with Out Magazine to promote her upcoming Fox Searchlight movie Battle Of The Sexes that some of her male co-stars have taken pay cuts so their salary would be equal to hers. She didn’t mention names in the Out piece, which took the form of a Q&A with her Sexes co-star Andre…

Films based on real life don’t necessarily have to cast actors who look exactly like their subjects. For instance, Michael Fassbender and Joaquin Phoenix score Oscar noms for their respective roles as Steve Jobs and Johnny Cash. But it doesn’t hurt (see Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams). Now we have our first look at…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Searchlight is mounting its Billie Jean King-Bobby Riggs tennis match pic Battle of the Sexes, and they have found their Margaret Court. Playing the statuesque Australian tennis star will be Jessica McNamee, an up and coming Aussie actress who is one of the leads in Warner Bros CHiPs film, and starred…

EXCLUSIVE: A surprise entry in the race to mount the seminal film about the gender battle tennis match that scored the highest TV ratings since the Moon Landing: Fox Searchlight has set a fall start for Battle Of The Sexes, with Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris directing Emma Stone as Billie Jean King and Steve Carell…