“The Big Cigar” had a long journey to the screen. It was first set up at Sony in 2012 as a film adaptation of a Playboy article by journalist Joshuah Berman, who had previously written the article ...

Long before “fake news,” “The Big Cigar” looks back to the time of a fake movie – specifically, one designed to provide Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton cover to flee America for Cuba. Yet ...

MILWAUKEE - Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton teams up with Hollywood producer Bert Schneider to elude a nationwide manhunt and escape to Cuba while being pursued by the FBI. ‘The Big Cigar’ is now ...

Welcome to Havana Cubahome of the legendary Cuban Cigar This is a fascinating place where a stick of rolled tobacco leaf is turned into an intricate art form producing a desire of international ...

Written and directed by James Orr, the 53-minute video chronicles the entire process of Cuban cigar making, from planting to packaging, offering rare, never before seen footage of the facilities where ...

At one point in the new Apple TV+ miniseries The Big Cigar, Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton (André Holland) attends a party and recalls the time he and film producer Bert Schneider ...

Twitter sleuths have uncovered that HBO Max removed cigars and cigarettes from some of the posters displayed for old movies in the service’s catalog. Twitter user Pete Salisbury pointed out on ...