Ariana Grande Boards Meet the Parents 4 With Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro

Ariana Grande is continuing her acting tally with a starring relation successful Meet the Parents 4 alongside Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro.

Details connected Grande’s latest flick travel from THR, who says the popular artist-turned-Wicked prima volition beryllium a portion of the drama run’s newest installment. Universal is presently acceptable to reunite the Focker and Byrnes families connected November 25, 2026.

Ariana Grande. Image recognition Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images.

Stiller and De Niro person some signed connected successful what volition beryllium their 4th movie butting heads arsenic in-laws. Blythe Danner and Teri Polo, who some starred successful Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, and Little Fockers, are expected to instrumentality but stay successful the negotiations phase, according to THR’s sources. While astir communicative beats stay a mystery, the tract says 1 crippled constituent volition halfway connected Polo and Stiller’s son, who “gets engaged to a ball-busting pistillate who seems each incorrect for him.” Its sources accidental Grande volition beryllium the 1 to play the fiancée.

Behind the scenes, fans of the 2000s drama movie bid tin expect Meet the Parents 4 to beryllium written and directed by franchise seasoned John Hamburg. Original trilogy manager Jay Roach has boarded the task arsenic a producer, with De Niro and Jane Rosenthal besides producing done Tribeca Productions. Stiller is besides producing with John Lesher done Red Hour Films, portion Hamburg volition nutrient via Particular Pictures. Universal’s Matt Reilly and Jacqueline Garell volition oversee Meet the Parents 4 for the company.

Grande is possibly champion known for her enactment arsenic a musician, having contributed 7 workplace albums to the euphony world. The astir caller summation to her catalog is 2024’s Eternal Sunshine, a 13-track grounds that preceded her supporting relation successful Wicked, which premiered past fall. The Wizard of Oz philharmonic movie adaptation was met with glowing reviews from critics and fans alike, earning Grande an Oscar information for her supporting relation arsenic Galinda / Glinda. She’ll reprise her relation successful a sequel, Wicked: For Good, November 21, 2025.

For more, you tin work up connected our database of the biggest films coming successful 2025. You tin besides cheque retired our archetypal Meet the Parents review, wherever we gave the movie an 8/10 upon its premiere successful 2000.

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