She’s going to be Fock-ular? Ariana Grande in her first post-“Depraved” and post-Oscar nomination position has joined the solid of “Meet the Mother and father 4″ at Common, a person with data of the challenge advised IndieWire.
Grande joins Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro, who’re returning to the long-running comedy franchise, and Common has additionally now set a launch date for the movie on November 25, 2026, or Thanksgiving week 2026.
John Hamburg, the co-writer of the primary three “Meet the Mother and father” movies, wrote the screenplay for “Meet the Mother and father 4” and can direct the movie. Plot particulars are nonetheless being saved underneath wraps, and the movie is formally nonetheless untitled.
Blythe Danner and Teri Polo, who additionally starred within the authentic trilogy of flicks, are additionally anticipated to return for the fourth movie.
With a collective $1.13 billion on the field workplace, the “Meet the Mother and father” films date again to 2000 with the movie directed by Jay Roach (who’s returning as a producer on the fourth movie). The unique adopted Stiller as a person making an attempt to win the love — or be a part of the “circle of belief” — of his fiancé’s (Polo) hard-nosed dad and mom, performed by De Niro and Danner, solely to search out that De Niro is a former CIA agent. That film was adopted by 2004’s “Meet the Fockers” and 2010’s “Little Fockers.”
The fourth movie is being produced by Jane Rosenthal and De Niro via Tribeca Productions, Roach via Delirious Media, Stiller and John Lesher via Purple Hour Movies, and Hamburg via Explicit Photos.
“Meet the Mother and father 4” is, in fact, a reunion between Common and Grande, as she starred as Glinda in final yr’s “Depraved” and can return this fall for “Depraved: For Good,” the conclusion to the Broadway musical adaptation. The primary movie made almost $800 million on the international field workplace and received 10 Oscar nominations. “For Good” hits theaters November 21, 2025.
Govt Vice President of Manufacturing Improvement Matt Reilly and Director of Manufacturing Improvement Jacqueline Garell will oversee the challenge for the Studio.
Grande is repped by CAA, Good World Administration, The Lede Firm and Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg & Mild LLP.
Deadline first reported the information.