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Trailer Watch: “Naomi Osaka” Sees Garrett Bradley Following a Tennis Star Off the Court
Garrett Bradley is following up “Time,” her Oscar-nominated portrait of a woman fighting to free her incarcerated husband, with an intimate look behind the scenes of a tennis...
Women in Tennis Doc “Unraveling Athena” Lands at Shout! Studios
“Unraveling Athena: The Champions of Women’s Tennis,” a documentary exploring the lives, careers, and struggles of some of history’s finest female tennis players, has been...
Sundance Winner Garrett Bradley Directing Netflix Docuseries About Naomi Osaka
Garrett Bradley recently won Sundance’s Directing Award: U.S. Documentary for “Time,” the story of a real-life superheroine fighting to free her incarcerated husband. Her next...
ESPN’s New Docuseries to Kick Off with “Serena vs. The Umpire”
Tennis fans are in luck. Serena Williams is one of many sports subjects featured in Don Van Natta, Jr.’s new ESPN docuseries, “Backstory.” With the 2019 U.S. Open set to begin later...
Reese Witherspoon to Produce Doc About Tennis Star and LGBTQ Activist Martina Navratilova
Another trailblazing female tennis player is having her story told on the big screen. Following in the footsteps of 2017 Billie Jean King biopic “Battle of the Sexes” is a doc about...
Serena Williams Hits the Court and Screen in HBO Docuseries “Being Serena”
Last year was quite the eventful one for tennis champion Serena Williams. In January 2017 Williams won her seventh Australian Open. And she didn’t just dominate: she did so while eight weeks...
Valerie Faris & Jonathan Dayton’s “Battle of the Sexes” Gets Awards-Friendly Release
Emma Stone just won her first Oscar in February, and the “La La Land” actress may be in running for the 2018 Academy Awards as well. Fox Searchlight has announced an awards-friendly release date...
Laura Karpman and Gail Collins to Bring the “Battle of the Sexes” to the Opera
Billie Jean King: Lynn Gilbert/Wikimedia Commons When you think about it, the opera is the perfect place to tell “the Battle of the Sexes” story. The historic tennis match between Billie Jean...