With Emma Stone in the awards conversation again for her performance in Yorgos Lanthimos ' Bugonia , one of her most underrated films is headed to a new streaming home. HBO Max is serving up Battle of the Sexes , in which Stone played trailblazing women's tennis player Billie Jean King . It will be available to stream starting on December 1, 2025.

Battle of the Sexes was directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris , the directing duo behind Little Miss Sunshine , from a script by The Full Monty 's Simon Beaufoy . It dramatizes a real-life tennis match between top-ranked women's tennis player King and veteran men's player Bobby Riggs that captured America's imagination in 1973. In real life, despite their on-court rivalry and the back-and-forth sn

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