{"id":299236,"date":"2025-07-28T19:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/299236\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T19:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:20:13","slug":"meet-the-parents-4-officially-titled-focker-in-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/299236\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Meet the Parents 4&#8217; Officially Titled &#8216;Focker in Law&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWhat the fock? \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/meet-the-parents-4\/\" id=\"auto-tag_meet-the-parents-4\" data-tag=\"meet-the-parents-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meet the Parents 4<\/a>\u201d has officially been renamed \u201cFocker in Law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\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<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\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<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJohn Hamburg, who wrote the first three films, will write and direct \u201cFocker in Law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tStiller teased the fourquel <a data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/robert-de-niro-ben-stiller-meet-the-parents-25th-anniversary-tribeca-screening-1236418928\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/robert-de-niro-ben-stiller-meet-the-parents-25th-anniversary-tribeca-screening-1236418928\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\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<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\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<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,110773,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-299236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-meet-the-parents-4","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114932483587742535","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}