“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 ...

The Big Cigar, a new limited series on Apple TV+ that debuts on May 17, dramatizes a wild true story from the New Hollywood period of the 1970s. Huey P. Newton, the co-founder of The Black Panther ...

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This new series is based on the unlikely true story of a Hollywood producer who used a bogus film production to help Huey Newton flee to Cuba in 1974. By Chris Vognar When the movie producer Bert ...

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 ...

Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...

LOS ANGELES, May 15 (UPI) --The Apple TV+ original series, The Big Cigar, tells the true story of Black Panthers co-founder Huey P. Newton's escape to Cuba in 1974. Andre Holland plays Newton, who by ...

Have you seen stories about 'Chucky,' 'Scream,' 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' 'The Boys,' 'Vanderpump Rules,' or any of 'The Real Housewives' franchises? That's probably a Britta DeVore-curated piece of ...

A team of white Hollywood producers fabricate a movie to help the Black Panther co-founder escape to Cuba in this six-parter. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic Whether it’s something like ...

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 ...

"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 ...