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UPDATE with more information, below. In case there was any doubt about how the New York Times feels about Steven Spielberg’s The Post – not to mention the Washington Post – here’s a look at today’s NYT culture section. Just in time for the Paper of Record’s vaunted readership to make its New Year’s Weekend film-going…

Let’s just cut right to the chase: Steven Spielberg has crafted yet another masterpiece with The Post, and it fits right in line as the third part of what I will label a trilogy of his recent films about the right people coming along at just the right time to do the right thing. With the precision of a surgeon…

Steven Spielberg’s Pentagon Papers movie finally has a title. Fox said today that the pic about the Washington Post's role in exposing the Pentagon Papers in 1971 will be called The Post. It officially was known as Untitled Steven Spielberg after earlier being titled The Papers. Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep star…

EXCLUSIVE: Amy Pascal’s Pascal Pictures won an auction for The Post. The spec script by Liz Hannah frames a feature film about the Washington Post's role in exposing the Pentagon Papers in 1971, and how the Post's editor Ben Bradlee and publisher Kay Graham challenged the federal government over their right to publish…