{"id":256425,"date":"2026-01-21T16:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/256425\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:39:12","slug":"paul-rudd-nick-jonas-comedy-power-ballad-to-debut-at-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/256425\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Rudd &#038; Nick Jonas Comedy \u2018Power Ballad\u2019 To Debut At Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJohn Carney\u2019s latest feature, <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>, starring <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>, will close this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/dublin-film-festival\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dublin-film-festival\" data-tag=\"dublin-film-festival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin Film Festival<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film will screen as a world premiere. Rudd and Jonas will attend the screening in Dublin on March 1st at the Bord G\u00e1is Energy Theatre.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film follows Rick (Paul Rudd), a past-his-prime wedding singer, who crosses paths with Danny (Nick Jonas), a fading boyband star, during a gig. Bonding over music and a late-night jam session, the two strike up an unlikely friendship. However, when Rick and Danny return to their respective worlds, they discover that this chance encounter will upend both their lives in very different ways.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m delighted to have our film, Power Ballad, close this year\u2019s festival,\u201d Carney said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s apt to go out, after so many great films, with a bang of music and fun. Who wouldn\u2019t want to watch Paul Rudd throw Nick Jonas off a balcony? (Seriously, that happens in our movie.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter Dublin, the film will screen at SXSW.\u00a0Lionsgate will release the movie on June 5.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlso starring in the film are Marcella Plunkett, Havana Rose Liu, and Jack Reynor. Producers are Anthony Bregman, John Carney, Peter Cron, Rebecca O\u2019Flanagan, and Robert Walpole. 30West fully financed and executive-produced Power Ballad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDublin Festival Director Grainne Humphreys added: \u201cA big thank you to Bord G\u00e1is Energy Theatre for being a part of a DIFF first, showcasing our closing night film in their beautiful theatre, and for Lionsgate UK and to the wonderful team at Treasure Entertainment and director John Carney in entrusting us to make it all happen It\u2019s the perfect closing film for the 2026 festival, which features a record number of Irish features \u2013 the future of Irish cinema has never looked so bright.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Carney\u2019s latest feature, Power Ballad, starring Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas, will close this year\u2019s Dublin Film&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,127700,93,61,60,12072,21370,127701],"class_list":{"0":"post-256425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-dublin-film-festival","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-nick-jonas","14":"tag-paul-rudd","15":"tag-power-ballad"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}