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<\/p>\nThe first trailer for Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas’s Dublin-set comedy-drama Power Ballad has arrived. The new movie follows a past-it wedding singer called Rick as he crosses paths with a fading boy band star named Danny.<\/p>\n
While they bond during a jam session, things take a turn when Danny takes one of Rick’s songs and turns it into a hit that helps to reignite his own career, and Rick “sets out to reclaim the recognition he believes he deserves \u2013 even if it means risking everything he cares about”.<\/p>\n
The first trailer showcases the initial bond between the pair, though Rick gets a taste of what a phenomenon the song has become when Danny declares at a gig that the ballad “changed” his life.<\/p>\n
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Related: <\/strong>Best streaming services<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Rick’s frustration then leads to violent consequences, as Danny suggests that it isn’t “easy to turn a song into a hit”.<\/p>\n Power Ballad comes from director and co-writer John Carney (Once), and premiered last week at the Dublin International Film Festival.<\/p>\n One Letterboxd<\/a> viewer who saw it wrote that they “absolutely devoured” the movie, praising the “fantastic duo” of Rudd and Jonas.<\/p>\n “I got to see this at its premiere at the Dublin International Film Festival and it was a good time,” another added<\/a>. “It’s a very fun movie with the majority of jokes really landing.”<\/p>\n Lionsgate<\/p>\n A third called<\/a> it a “fun, lighthearted and engaging” story that “sometimes takes itself a bit too seriously”, though is “well written and original”, adding: “Was nice to see Ireland portrayed in a normal way. A great evening all round.”<\/p>\n Speaking previously about the project, Carney said<\/a>: “I’m delighted to be working with so many great people. I’ve been working on this script with my buddy Peter [McDonald] for years, and now Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas are in my kitchen.”<\/p>\n “John has a magic ability to weave great music into wonderfully engaging and universally relatable stories that make audience emotions run high,” added WME’s Alex Walton.<\/p>\n Power Ballad<\/strong> is due out in UK and Irish cinemas on 29 May.<\/strong><\/p>\n The new edition of <\/strong>Living Legends<\/strong>, a 100-page all-colour celebration of Harry Styles, is here! <\/strong>Buy <\/strong>Harry Styles<\/strong> in newsagents or online<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong> Sam is a freelance reporter and sub-editor who has a particular interest in movies<\/a>, TV<\/a> and music. After completing a journalism Masters at City University, London, Sam joined Digital Spy<\/strong> as a reporter, and has also freelanced for publications such as NME<\/a> and Screen International<\/a>. \u00a0Sam, who also has a degree in Film, can wax lyrical about everything from Lord of the Rings<\/a> to Love Is Blind<\/a>, and is equally in his element crossing every ‘t’ and dotting every ‘i’ as a sub-editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first trailer for Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas’s Dublin-set comedy-drama Power Ballad has arrived. The new movie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3935],"tags":[215877,1380,236114,1331,77,1330,3943,236113,236115,16,15],"class_list":["post-819959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-c1495c55-43d4-4cab-bf88-5c091b675f76","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-locale-gb","tag-movies","tag-shorttitle-paul-rudds-fantastic-comedy-drama-gets-first-trailer","tag-subsection-trailers","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116213707378586752","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"power](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/61ff9586-1d62-4078-a2f3-30c85d05b179.jpg\" "\\"Power")
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