Steven Spielberg's Pentagon Papers movie starring Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep gets title

Steven Spielberg's movie 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, reported Variety.

Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep star as Post editor Ben Bradlee and publisher Kay Graham alongside Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Pat Healy, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, Jesse Plemons, Matthew Rhys, Michael Stuhlbarg, Bradley Whitford, Zach Woods and others.

Liz Hannah and Josh Singer wrote the script. The film is keeping its Oscar-friendly December 22 limited-release date and is set to go wide January 12.