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Steven Spielberg's 'The Papers' Has Been Re-Titled 'The Post'

Steven Spielberg's movie for this award season has a new title. The production, which was originally called The Papers, has been re-titled The Post, according to Variety.

The movie has an all-star cast that includes Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Matthew Rhys, Bradley Whitford, Carrie Coon, Jesse Plemons, David Cross, Alison Brie, Bruce Greenwood, Tracy Letts, and Michael Stuhlbarg. It will have a limited release on December 22nd and go wide on January 12th, 2018. The movie centers on the Washington Post's decision to publish the classified Pentagon Papers in 1971.

Hanks is portraying the Post's editor Ben Bradlee and Streep is playing publisher Katherine Graham. In 1971, the paper decided to publish revelations from the 47-volume Pentagon Papers study after President Richard Nixon and Attorney General John Mitchell got a federal court injunction forcing the New York Times to cease publication of the papers after three installments.

The New York Times and Washington Post jointly appealed to the Supreme Court on First Amendment grounds and the high court ruled 6-3 that the government failed to prove a harm to national security and that publication was justified by the First Amendment.

Fox also announced Friday that it has moved the release of Dylan O'Brien's sci-fi actioner Maze Runner: The Death Cure forward two weeks from February 9th to January 26th, 2018. It's the third and final movie in the franchise. The release was originally set for February 17th of this year, but was delayed after O'Brien was injured on set in 2016.

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