I think that is the reason he quoted Paterno last week in his interview.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...utive-producing-hbo-movie-white-house-1025099
The communications director for Donald Trump's White House will have a credit on a movie about disgraced football coach Joe Paterno starring Al Pacino.
Anthony Scaramucci seems plenty busy with his duties as communications director for President Donald Trump's White House, but apparently he's got time enough to help make an upcoming HBO movie.
The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Scaramucci, when he's not trading inappropriate barbs with hostile reporters or former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, is co-executive producing a TV movie based on disgraced football coach Joe Paterno.
The movie had been titled Happy Valley, but HBO is seeking a different name because a BBC/Netflix crime drama has already claimed that title. HBO now refers to the movie, set for airing in 2018, as the "Untitled Barry Levinson Project," since Levinson is directing.
The movie stars Al Pacino as Paterno, the former head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions football team who was fired, a casualty of a sex abuse scandal involving his defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky.
Pacino and Scaramucci have a bit of history together, given the actor was once a keynote speaker at the SALT Conference, a gathering of movers and shakers in Las Vegas that Scaramucci founded about a decade ago when he was managing the SkyBridge hedge fund.
In Scaramucci's recently disclosed financial reports, he lists as one of his many sources of income the Edward R. Pressman Film Corp., which is a production company making the Paterno HBO movie.
HBO confirmed that he will receive credit as a co-executive producer because he brought in financing for the project prior to the network's involvement.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...utive-producing-hbo-movie-white-house-1025099
The communications director for Donald Trump's White House will have a credit on a movie about disgraced football coach Joe Paterno starring Al Pacino.
Anthony Scaramucci seems plenty busy with his duties as communications director for President Donald Trump's White House, but apparently he's got time enough to help make an upcoming HBO movie.
The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Scaramucci, when he's not trading inappropriate barbs with hostile reporters or former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, is co-executive producing a TV movie based on disgraced football coach Joe Paterno.
The movie had been titled Happy Valley, but HBO is seeking a different name because a BBC/Netflix crime drama has already claimed that title. HBO now refers to the movie, set for airing in 2018, as the "Untitled Barry Levinson Project," since Levinson is directing.
The movie stars Al Pacino as Paterno, the former head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions football team who was fired, a casualty of a sex abuse scandal involving his defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky.
Pacino and Scaramucci have a bit of history together, given the actor was once a keynote speaker at the SALT Conference, a gathering of movers and shakers in Las Vegas that Scaramucci founded about a decade ago when he was managing the SkyBridge hedge fund.
In Scaramucci's recently disclosed financial reports, he lists as one of his many sources of income the Edward R. Pressman Film Corp., which is a production company making the Paterno HBO movie.
HBO confirmed that he will receive credit as a co-executive producer because he brought in financing for the project prior to the network's involvement.
