{"id":648351,"date":"2026-03-11T16:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/648351\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T16:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:17:19","slug":"paul-rudd-nick-jonas-in-john-carney-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/648351\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Rudd &#038; Nick Jonas In John Carney Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHere\u2019s your first look at <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paul-rudd\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paul-rudd\" data-tag=\"paul-rudd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Rudd<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nick-jonas\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nick-jonas\" data-tag=\"nick-jonas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Jonas<\/a> in John Carney\u2019s comedy <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/power-ballad\/\" id=\"auto-tag_power-ballad\" data-tag=\"power-ballad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Power Ballad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film\u2019s synopsis reads: When Rick (Paul Rudd), a past-his-prime wedding singer, meets fading boy-band star Danny (Nick Jonas) during a gig, the two bond over music and a late-night jam session. But when Danny turns one of Rick\u2019s songs into the hit that reignites his career, Rick sets out to reclaim the recognition he believes he deserves \u2013 even if it means risking everything he cares about. From writer-director John Carney (Sing Street, Once), Power Ballad is a feel-good story about music, self-respect, friendship, and the price of ambition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCarney directs from a screenplay he co-wrote with Peter McDonald. Producers on the film are Anthony Bregman, John Carney, Peter Cron, Rebecca O\u2019Flanagan, and Robert Walpole.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe cast features Rudd and Jonas alongside Peter McDonald, Marcella Plunkett, Havana Rose Liu, and Jack Reynor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t30West fully financed and executive produced Power Ballad. The film debuted at the Dublin Film Festival and will play at the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sxsw\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sxsw\" data-tag=\"sxsw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SXSW<\/a> Film Festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film will hit cinemas on June 5. Check out the trailer above.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s your first look at Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas in John Carney\u2019s comedy Power Ballad. The film\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":648352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,53,16003,33099,275493,94376,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-648351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-nick-jonas","tag-paul-rudd","tag-power-ballad","tag-sxsw","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116211446370992214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}