Ariana Grande is sticking with acting…for good, it seems. After her standout performance as Glinda in last year's Wicked, which earned her an Oscar nomination, the chart-topping artist is now booked and busy on her next gig, which will be the new sequel to Meet the Parents, a rep for Universal Pictures confirms to Entertainment Weekly. "Very thrilled to be joing (meeting) the family!!!!!!!"

Grande wrote in an Instagram Story on Friday. This will mark Grande's first acting role since filming the two Wicked movies. The second one, titled Wicked: For Good, will arrive in theaters on Nov. 21.

The new Meet the Parents movie is then scheduled to open in theaters on Nov. 25, 2026. Ben Stiller, Robert DeNiro, Blythe Danner, and Teri Polo in 'Meet the Parents'. Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro are reprising their roles as Greg Focker and Jack Byrnes, respectively, in the fourth movie.

The first film, released in 2000, saw Greg meeting his girlfriend's parents for the first time ahead of a planned marriage proposal and making one terrible impression after another. Adding to the comedic anxiety of the situation was the fact that Jack, the future father-in-law, was a retired CIA operative. Two sequels followed: Meet the Fockers (2004), in which the Byrnes family came face-to-face with the Focker family ahead of Greg's wedding to Pam (Teri Polo), and then Little Fockers (2010), which involved Greg and Pam's children.

Details are still largely under wraps on the plot of the fourth movie, but producer Jane Rosenthal told Variety in a recent cover story, "Stiller is now the same age that [De Niro] was when we did the first one, and his kids have grown up, and they have to come home and meet the parents." John Hamburg, who co-wrote all three of the previous films, wrote the screenplay and will direct the fourth entry. Stiller will produce the film with John Lesher through their Red Hour Films banner.

In a November 2024 appearance on the Las Culturistas podcast, co-hosted by Grande's friend and Wicked costar Bowen Yang, the Eternal Sunshine singer signaled she would be scaling back her music output to focus more on acting. Ariana Grande as Glinda in 'Wicked'. Giles Keyte/Universal Pictures Want more movie news?

Sign up for Entertainment Weekly's free newsletter to get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more. "I'm going to say something so scary. It's going to scare the absolute s— out of my fans and everyone.

But I love them and they'll deal and we'll be here forever," she said at the time. "I'm always going to make music. I'm always going to go on stage.

I'm always going to do pop stuff. I pinky promise. But I don't think doing it at the rate that I've been doing it for the past 10 years is where I see the next 10 years going."

Grande explained, "I love acting. I love musical theater. I think reconnecting with this part of myself who started in musical theater and who loves comedy, and it heals me to do that, finding roles to use these parts of myself and put them in little homes and characters and bits and voices and songs.

It really does, in a different way than songwriting and writing about my own pain, because it's just like constantly reliving that one thing that you wrote the song about." Reports circulated that Grande was being considered to star in a Real Housewives-inspired murder mystery film from A24. However, a previous Hollywood Reporter interview with Grande, published in February of this year, stated she hadn't engaged with that offer.

"Well, I can neither confirm nor deny, but I'm blushing," Grande said in response. She then added more earnestly, "I just think it's such an important thing to stay connected to that guttural creative thing in my heart and my chest that wants to give itself over to something that screams at me and says, 'Oh, that's a really cool challenge.' I have a thing, and when it goes off, I know."

This article has been updated with the release date and director.