{"id":394410,"date":"2026-04-23T22:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/394410\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:11:14","slug":"paul-rudd-and-nick-jonas-strike-a-chord-in-new-power-ballad-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/394410\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas strike a chord in new ‘Power Ballad’ trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next year will mark the 20th anniversary of Once, the Irish musical romance that became a Cinderella story at the Oscars, winning Best Original Song with “Falling Slowly.” Since then, that film’s writer-director, John Carney<\/a>, has put out a steady stream of charming music-forward films, including the fantastic Sing Street. <\/p>\n

This year, Carney is back with another music-centric film set across the pond, this one starring two Americans, Paul Rudd<\/a> and Nick Jonas<\/a>, as two musicians at very different levels of name and the song that comes between them. <\/p>\n

Power Ballad<\/a> won over audiences as South by Southwest earlier this year and is set for release in May. Here’s everything you need to know about the film.<\/p>\n

\"Jack<\/a> \"Clueless<\/a> <\/p>\n

The Trailer<\/p>\n

The Cast<\/p>\n

Duo Rudd and Jonas top-line the feature, but they’re backed by past Carney collaborator Jack Reynor and Havana Rose Liu.<\/p>\n

The Story<\/p>\n

The film follows the titular Rick Power (Rudd), a wedding singer who has a chance encounter with the pop star played by Jonas, Danny Wilson. After the two get to jamming, Power shares a song of his that Wilson goes onto make into a major hit \u2014 without crediting the writer.<\/p>\n

The Creative Team<\/p>\n

Carney, who co-wrote the script with Oscar nominee Peter McDonald, is coming off of his most recent feature, 2023’s Flora and Son, which starred Eve Hewson, Reynor, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.<\/p>\n

The Release Date<\/p>\n

Power Ballad opens in theaters on May 29.<\/p>\n

The Awards Chances<\/p>\n

While none of Carney’s films since Once have landed an Oscar nomination (the snubbing of Sing Street will never be forgotten), Power Ballad’s original songs could be a path back to the Academy Awards for the filmmaker. Also keep an eye out for Best Picture \u2014 Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next year will mark the 20th anniversary of Once, the Irish musical romance that became a Cinderella story…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,175396,409,111,139,1608,69,26243,167194],"class_list":{"0":"post-394410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-john-carney","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nick-jonas","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-paul-rudd","16":"tag-power-ballad"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}