Production Notes & Screen Credits - SYE Publicity

Before joining Fox, Cohen worked at Scott Rudin
Productions. In 1998, he graduated from New York
University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
lyrics. It will be directed by Stephen Schwartz and
released in 2011. His other film credits include Disney’s
megahit The Santa Clause 2.
Paul and Daurio had the distinct honor of being
As 3-D productions are on the way to becoming
the norm, CINCO PAUL (Screenplay by) is right on
trend with two high-profile 3-D animated films on his
resume. He is set to co-direct the highly anticipated
Dr. Seuss’The Lorax, an adaptation of the iconic environmental-themed
children’s book, which is scheduled
for release in March 2012.
Paul and his writing partner, Ken Daurio, are the
hot Hollywood screenwriting team who penned the
handpicked by Audrey Geisel (the widow of Theodor
Seuss Geisel) to pen Horton Hears a Who! and The
Lorax film projects on behalf of the estate of Dr. Seuss.
Paul studied at Yale University, where he graduated
summa cum laude with a degree in English.
Upon moving to Los Angeles, he attended the screenwriting
program at the University of Southern
California, winning a fellowship grant to pay for his
second year.
Horton Hears a Who! screenplay for executive Chris
Meledandri during his tenure at 20 th Century Fox. As 3-D productions are on the way to becoming
When Horton Hears a Who! led to a nearly $300
million worldwide box-office gross, Meledandri
formed the film production company Illumination
Entertainment, which specializes in animation.
Illumination’s first three movies given the green light
were all written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio:
Despicable Me, Hop and Dr. Seuss’The Lorax.
Paul and Daurio are known throughout the entertainment
industry for their unique pitching style,
often singing their pitches to high-level studio executives.
For the Disney film College Road Trip, they
belted out the ’80s tune “Double Dutch Bus”
complete with harmony and melody. An estimated 90
percent of their pitches in the last nine years have
involved a musical performance.
Paul met Daurio while working on a church musical
and they bonded immediately. In 1999, they sold the
screenplay for their first short film, Special, and the film
went on to play in the festival circuit due to the dark
comedic storyline. Next came the 2001 cult classic
Bubble Boy, which starred Jake Gyllenhaal as Jimmy
Livingston (a boy without an immune system), a twisted
take on the John Travolta television movie The Boy in
the Plastic Bubble. Paul also turned the movie Bubble
Boy into a full-length musical and wrote the music and
the norm, KEN DAURIO (Screenplay by) is right on
trend with two high-profile 3-D animated films on his
resume. He is set to co-direct Dr. Seuss’The Lorax, an
adaptation of the iconic author’s environmentalthemed
children’s book that is scheduled for release in
March 2012.
Daurio and his writing partner, Cinco Paul, are
the hot Hollywood screenwriting team who penned
the Horton Hears a Who! screenplay for executive
Chris Meledandri during his tenure at 20 th Century
Fox. After Paul and Daurio’s work on Horton lead to a
nearly $300 million worldwide box-office gross, the
duo found themselves in demand in the animation
world. Daurio and Paul further forged their strategic
relationship with Meledandri when he formed the
film production company Illumination Entertainment,
which specializes in animation. It’s no coincidence
that Illumination’s first three movies that were given
the green light were all written by Daurio and Paul
(Despicable Me, Hop and The Lorax), something
unheard of in the history of animation.
Daurio and Paul are known throughout the entertainment
industry for their unique pitching style,
often singing their pitches to high-level studio executives.
For the Disney film College Road Trip, they
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