Fourth 'Meet the Parents' movie, 'Focker-in-Law,' filming at Caumsett State Park

Greg and Pam Focker are back, along with others in the extended Byrnes / Focker clan, as the previously announced fourth "Meet the Parents" movie continues production for a Thanksgiving 2026 release.

And at least one scene in "Focker-in-Law" has shot on Long Island, at  Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve in Lloyd Harbor.

"Primarily we are using the service road — the paved bike and walking path" that forms a loop, says the film’s location manager, Aidan Sleeper, of Queens, whose credits include HBO’s "Girls," Showtime’s "Billions" and the New York unit of "Jurassic World: Rebirth" (2025). "It'll be three full days of filming," two days this past week and a day this upcoming week.

In this first "Meet the Parents" movie since the original 2000-2010 trio, Ben Stiller and Teri Polo return as Greg and Pam Focker, with Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner reprising their roles as Teri’s parents, Jack and Dina Byrnes. Joining the cast are Skyler Gisondo — most recently seen as Jimmy Olsen in James Gunn’s "Superman" feature — and Ariana Grande.

According to Universal Pictures, the plot involves one of the Fockers’ now-grown twin sons, Henry, falling for a strong-willed woman, played by Grande, who might not fit into the family. In the first film, "Meet the Parents," Pam’s father, Jack, disapproved of Greg and wanted his daughter to be with her ex-fiancee, Kevin Rawley (Owen Wilson, who makes cameo appearances in all three sequels).

A production representative said the scene includes all the principal cast members noted above, except for Danner, plus Beanie Feldstein and Eduardo Franco.

"It's characters riding bikes," Sleeper says, "so it's a little complicated to shoot logistically. You're trying to find the right kind of paved surface that also looks beautiful and allows you to have a certain level of control for safety and camera repetition. It was not an easy search, I'll be honest with you."

Most bike paths, he explains, "follow old rail trails, or they go around a pond or something and tend to be fairly narrow. So one of the things unique to Caumsett is that the path around the main field is big enough to put bikes and camera support on. And it's a loop, which means we can get easily things from our base camp to the actual shooting location" via one direction or the other.

As well, "It's an absolutely stunning state park — I mean, you've got the mansion and the beach and the farm and all that, but also just the scale of nature there" in the 1,750-acre compound that is home to the historic Henry Lloyd Manor, built in 1711, as well as the 1920s dairy barn complex and red-brick polo stable, the 1939 summer cottage and other buildings once belonging to investment banker and department-store heir Marshall Field III.

Sleeper says, "The team at Caumsett, like [park director] Vinnie Medina and the staff at the regional park office, they're, like, can-do people." Partly that comes from experience: Caumsett has been a location for projects including the 2010 Angelina Jolie action-thriller, "Salt," and episodes of the TV series/miniseries "Prodigal Son," "Evil," "American Horror Story," "The Better Sister" and, most recently, Netflix’s "Sirens."

"With the amount of shoots that we have within the park we’ve kind of learned the way productions are done and we do our best to be accommodating when we’re working with one,” Medina says, adding, “It’s a really great scene that’s really representative of what the park is about — people do come here to ride bikes around the main loop.”

And the location offered the movie's shoot an unexpected benefit, Sleeper says. “A number of the crew, myself included, brought our bikes with us to get around the park. Definitely, for me, it’s a big perk to be able to ride back and forth and get a little exercise while also making a movie.”