Months after incomes an Oscar nomination for her efficiency in Depraved, worldwide pop star Ariana Grande has lastly discovered her subsequent film.
The Grammy successful singer is ready to affix Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller within the latest installment of Common’s comedy films collection, Meet the Dad and mom.
Blythe Danner and Teri Polo, who additionally starred within the preliminary trio of films that have been launched over the course of the primary decade of the 2000s, are anticipated to return though these offers have but to shut, based on sources.
John Hamburg, who co-wrote all three prior movies, wrote the screenplay for the brand new characteristic and is ready to direct. Common has dated the movie for Nov. 25, 2026. (Jay Roach, who directed the primary three, is now one of many producers.)
The vanity of the primary film was easy: the common life occasion of getting your future father-in-law give his blessing to a wedding proposal. Catching flamable chemistry in a bottle, mixed with spot-on directing, the film grew to become a business and significant hit when it was launched in 2000. Stiller leapfrogged to the following wrung of Hollywood stardom, turning into a comedy kingpin for the following decade, whereas De Niro turned his robust man persona on its head, extending his star energy into the twenty first century.
Grossing over $330 million within the world field workplace, not adjusted for inflation, the film grew to become the seventh-highest grossing movie globally of that 12 months. Sequels Meet the Fockers, which introduced Dustin Hoffman and Barbara Streisand into the household tree, and Little Fockers, have been additionally field workplace successes, culminating in a complete franchise gross of over $1.13 billion within the world field workplace.
Whereas a lot of the plot stays below lock and key, THR can reveal that one level revolves across the son of Stiller and Polo’s characters, who will get engaged to a ball-busting girl who appears all unsuitable for him. Sources say Grande will play the fiancée.
Jane Rosenthal and De Niro are producing by their Tribeca Productions. Roach will produce by his Delirious Media. Stiller will produce with and John Lesher by way of their Pink Hour Movies banner. Hamburg will produce by Explicit Photos.
Govt vp of manufacturing growth Matt Reilly and director of manufacturing growth Jacqueline Garell will oversee the mission for Common.
Whereas Grande is now recognized for being one of many top-selling music acts of all time, she acquired her early begin in performing, starring within the Nickelodeon hit Victorious. Different performing stints revealed themselves through the years, however it was Grande’s efficiency as Glinda in Common’s acclaimed and pop culture-defining hit Depraved that confirmed the world what her starpower and performing expertise may do.
The film, launched final November, earned virtually $800 million worldwide and earned Grande not solely an Academy Award nomination however Golden Globe, SAG and BAFTA nominations for finest supporting actress as properly. (For good measure, the movie was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, together with finest image, and received for costume design and manufacturing design.)
Grande subsequent seems on the big-screen reprising Glinda in Depraved: For Good, which arrives in theaters on Nov. 21, 2025.
In current months, Grande has been provided quite a few film initiatives from Common, Sony and Warner Bros., passing on all of them. She even declined a Warner comedy that may have given her the ability to choose her co-star, mentioned one supply. One factor is evident, nonetheless: she was intent on discovering a comedy.
She is repped by CAA, Good World Administration, and Myman Greenspan.