{"id":29388,"date":"2025-07-28T19:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/29388\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T19:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:29:07","slug":"meet-the-parents-4-officially-titled-focker-in-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/29388\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Meet the Parents 4’ Officially Titled ‘Focker in Law’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhat the fock? \u201cMeet the Parents 4<\/a>\u201d has officially been renamed \u201cFocker in Law.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBen Stiller, Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo and Owen Wilson will return for the fourth installment in the long-running comedy series, while Ariana Grande is joining the cast. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe new film\u2019s title references the surname of Stiller\u2019s character, Greg Focker. In the original movie, he endures a lot of painfully awkward hijinx while visiting his girlfriend\u2019s parents for the first time. \u201cMeet the Parents,\u201d which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, became box office blockbuster with $330 million worldwide. The comedy of errors then spawned two commercially successful sequels: 2004\u2019s \u201cMeet the Fockers\u201d (which introduced Greg\u2019s parents, Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman) and 2010\u2019s \u201cLittle Fockers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJohn Hamburg, who wrote the first three films, will write and direct \u201cFocker in Law.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tStiller teased the fourquel during a 25th anniversary screening<\/a> of \u201cMeet the Parents,\u201d saying they only returned because they found an \u201corganic reason\u201d to revisit these characters.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat spurred the idea is that I\u2019m the age that Bob was when we did the first movie,\u201d Stiller told the crowd at Tribeca Festival. \u201cIt felt like a mirror to the first film, where one of my kids is thinking about introducing his person to the family.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDe Niro revealed he\u2019s read the screenplay, though he stopped short of offering any plot details. \u201cThe script is really fun,\u201d he shared. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAudiences, meanwhile, won\u2019t get a glimpse of the on-screen shenanigans until \u201cFocker in Law\u201d opens in theaters on Nov. 25, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What the fock? \u201cMeet the Parents 4\u201d has officially been renamed \u201cFocker in Law.\u201d Ben Stiller, Robert De…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,18160,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-29388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-meet-the-parents-4","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}