when did the movie the post begin filming
May 2017 May 30, 2017
title: The Post (film) text: documents regarding the 30-year involvement of the United States government in the Vietnam War. Principal photography began in New York City in May 2017. The film premiered at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. on December 14, 2017, and went into limited release in the United States on December 22, 2017. It entered wide release on January 12, 2018, and grossed $179 million worldwide. The film received positive reviews; critics praised the performances (particularly those of Streep, Hanks, and Odenkirk) and described the references and allusions to the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump. "The Post" was chosen by the title: The Post (film) text: "Pentagon Papers" case—among them James Greenfield, James Goodale, Allan Siegal, and Max Frankel—objected to the film's production due to the script's lack of emphasis on the "Times" role in breaking the story. Goodale, who was at the time the "Times"s in-house counsel, later called the film "a good movie but bad history." The film began principal photography in New York on May 30, 2017. On June 6, 2017, it was announced that the project, retitled "The Papers", would also star Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, Jesse Plemons, Matthew Rhys, Michael Stuhlbarg, title: The Post (film) text: direct the film as soon as possible, citing that "when I read the first draft of the script, this wasn't something that could wait three years or two years — this was a story I felt we needed to tell today." Spielberg worked on "The Post" while post-production work continued on the visual-effects-heavy "Ready Player One", a situation familiar to him from concurrently producing, in the early 1990s, "Jurassic Park" and "Schindler's List". Josh Singer was hired to re-write the screenplay ten weeks before filming. As filming commenced, a number of "New York Times" figures who were associated with the title: The Post (film) text: The Post (film) The Post is a 2017 American historical political thriller film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer. It stars Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham, the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee, the executive editor of "The Washington Post", with Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Carrie Coon, and Matthew Rhys in supporting roles. Set in 1971, "The Post" depicts the true story of attempts by journalists at "The Washington Post" to publish the "Pentagon Papers", classified title: The Post (film) text: the rights to the screenplay "The Post", written by Liz Hannah. In February 2017, Steven Spielberg had halted pre-production on "The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara" after a casting setback, and consequently opened his schedule to other potential films to direct. The following month, it was announced that Spielberg was in negotiations to direct and produce the film, with Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in talks for the roles of Katharine Graham and Ben Bradlee, respectively. "The Post" is the first time that Spielberg, Streep, and Hanks had all worked together on a film. Spielberg read the screenplay and decided to