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title: "Ariana Grande walks the Focker-in-Law premiere red carpet in New York with Ricky Alvarez"
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# Ariana Grande walks the Focker-in-Law premiere red carpet in New York with Ricky Alvarez

Ariana Grande attended the New York premiere of Focker-in-Law with Ricky Alvarez on November 11, two weeks before the comedy opens on November 25.

Ariana Grande brought a plus-one to the Fockers. The singer and actor walked the red carpet at the New York premiere of *Focker-in-Law* at the Beacon Theatre on Wednesday night, November 11, with Ricky Alvarez at her side, the pair posing together for photographers in their first red carpet appearance side by side.

Grande wore a vintage 1990s Badgley Mischka look for the event, which kicked off the final two weeks of promotion before the comedy lands in theaters on November 25, the day before US Thanksgiving.

## Who Grande plays

In the fourth film of the *Meet the Parents* series, Grande is Olivia Jones, a life coach and former FBI hostage negotiator. She is dating Henry Focker, the grown-up son of Ben Stiller’s Greg and Teri Polo’s Pam, and Henry wants to marry her. His family thinks she is entirely wrong for him, which in this franchise means Robert De Niro’s retired CIA man Jack Byrnes is about to get suspicious.

Skyler Gisondo now plays Henry, taking over from Colin Baiocchi, and Beanie Feldstein plays his twin sister Samantha, a role Daisy Tahan had in 2010. Blythe Danner returns as Dina Byrnes and Owen Wilson is back as Kevin Rawley, Pam’s wealthy former fiancé. Eduardo Franco rounds out the new additions as Samantha’s boyfriend.

## Sixteen years in the making

The gap between installments is the longest the series has seen. Here is how the new film came together:

- **December 2024:** a fourth Fockers film is reported in development at Universal, with De Niro, Stiller, Polo and Danner in talks.

- **March 2025:** John Hamburg is confirmed as writer and director.

- **May 2025:** Grande joins the cast.

- **June to July 2025:** Paramount signs on as co-producer, Wilson returns, and the title *Focker-in-Law* is announced.

- **August 18 to November 1, 2025:** filming takes place in New York City.

- **April 15, 2026:** the first trailer arrives.

Hamburg wrote the screenplay from a story he developed with Ilana Glazer and Austen Earl. *Little Fockers* opened in 2010, so the new film arrives 16 years after the last chapter, and 26 years after the original *Meet the Parents* introduced Greg to Jack’s “circle of trust” in 2000. The new movie runs 105 minutes, with a score by Theodore Shapiro.

## A busy promotion week

The premiere capped a run of joint appearances. On November 8, Grande sat with Stiller and De Niro on *The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon*, where the trio played the show’s “True Confessions” game and she talked about getting Hamburg’s script. The film is part of a busy stretch for Grande on screen after her two-part run as Glinda in *Wicked*. Earlier this month, [a note Grande wrote for a stranger at the New York City Marathon went viral](https://badiyaa.com/ariana-grande-nyc-marathon-note-ellas-envelope-viral/).

Universal Pictures releases *Focker-in-Law* in the United States and Canada, while Paramount Pictures handles every other territory. More of our film coverage is on the [Badiyaa Entertainment page](https://badiyaa.com/category/entertainment/). The movie opens in theaters on Wednesday, November 25.

## Further reading

- [Wikipedia: Focker-in-Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focker_In-Law)

*Image: Barbie Simons, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons*

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