Ariana Grande is set to star in the fourth installment of the “Meet the Parents” franchise titled ‘Focker-in-Law’, opposite Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro. Universal announced that the film is scheduled for release on November 25, 2026.
Returning cast members Stiller, De Niro, Blythe Danner, Owen Wilson and Teri Polo will star alongside Grande and Beanie Feldstein in Focker-in-Law, with John Hamburg (Along Came Polly, I Love You, Man, and Why Him) to serve as writer/director.
Grande will play a character engaged to Stiller’s character’s son. Plot details for the fourth installment are being kept under wraps, but producer Jane Rosenthal teases that “Stiller is now the same age that [De Niro] was when we did the first one, and his kids have grown up, and they have to come home and meet the parents.”
The comedy will mark Grande’s first new film role in the wake of playing Glinda in the big-screen adaptation of Wicked, which earned the superstar a best supporting actress nomination at the 2025 Academy Awards.
The “Meet the Parents” movies — the 2000 original film, and its sequels “Meet the Fockers” and “Little Fockers” — have accumulated $1.13 billion in global box office.
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