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The two haven't worked together since, although the split was amicable and they remain good friends. [10] They host a podcast together called "Make Him Watch It," in which they make each other watch films they haven't seen.
Jun 27, 2013 · Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio are screenwriting partners, but they prefer to work independently. They divide up scenes before coming together to read pages to each other. “The goal is to make the other guy laugh,” Daurio said. For them, the arrangement works.
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Jul 3, 2013 · Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, the talented screenwriting duo behind the highly successful Despicable Me, reteam on Despicable Me 2 to bring to the big screen an all-new animated comedy...
- Not That Church Musical
- The ‘Schmigadoon’ Story
- That’S All, Folks
- ‘Just Little Things’
In 1997, the Church of Jesus Christ’s leaders in Newbury Park, California, asked Paul to oversee their play to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Saints’ arrival in the Great Salt Lake Valley. He said no. He was already making a living as a screenwriter, but he hadn’t done anything big yet. He had, however, written a few road shows and youth ...
Paul wanted to go back. He wanted to return to the familiar, in more ways than one. Foremost, he wanted to reembrace the sorts of stories he and Daurio had written before striking it big in kids entertainment. For him, “Schmigadoon!” was a return to the realm of risque stories like “Special.” “That sort of live-action comedy,” Paul explains, “which...
Daurio needed to talk. For days, for months, for years, a feeling had built up inside him. He’d squashed it down, figuring he’d be able to accept his new reality eventually. But the further he ventured into the world of grown-up entertainment, the more he longed for the comfort of his past; for the PG. “We had been in family world for so long, and ...
On a Tuesday afternoon in September, Cinco Paul joins a conference call from Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Tall and lanky, with a face and smile reminiscent of a blue-eyed Bill Nye the Science Guy, he makes small talk until Ken Daurio enters the Zoom meeting a few minutes late, calling from Los Angeles. “Hey guys, how’s it going?” he laughs. Shorter...
Jun 23, 2021 · Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul’s send-up of musical theater is both wholesome and really, really funny.
Aug 25, 2021 · Paul co-created and co-wrote the Apple TV+ series alongside his longtime creative partner Ken Daurio (Despicable Me). He also also served as showrunner and composed each delightful song of Schmigadoon!'s six-episode season. CBR had the opportunity to sit down with Paul for a retrospective of the series, where he broke down how his prior work in ...
May 11, 2020 · Paul and his writing partner, Ken Daurio, have worked on a number of projects together and by now have really carved out a go-to routine that works for them. “Generally we know where our strengths lie,” Paul says.
