Miss Congeniality 3: Crown & Chaos (2026)
Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine, Benjamin Bratt, Regina King
Gracie Hart is back — wiser, brasher, and still fully committed to avoiding glitter like it’s radioactive. Miss Congeniality 3: Crown & Chaos brings the legendary FBI agent-turned-reluctant-beauty-queen out of her peaceful new life… and straight into the most explosive pageant disaster the world has ever seen.
Years after retiring from fieldwork, Gracie (Sandra Bullock) now runs a nationwide women’s safety and self-defense program — a job she loves, mostly because it requires zero heels, zero sequins, and zero smiling on command. Her days revolve around teaching women how to defend themselves using practical tactics, blunt sarcasm, and the occasional well-placed elbow. Peaceful, predictable… and totally devoid of pageants.
Until the Miss United States competition expands into Miss Global United, a billion-dollar international spectacle drawing contestants from over 50 countries. But just as rehearsals begin, a sophisticated cyber-attack cripples the event’s security system, plunging the pageant into chaos and making it the perfect target for a dangerous extremist group planning a very public, very destructive statement.
Enter Gracie Hart — kicking and complaining the whole way.
Dragged in by her former FBI colleagues, Gracie is forced back undercover, but this time with a twist: she won’t just blend in with contestants… she must mentor them. Suddenly she’s responsible for styling disasters, emotional meltdowns, international rivalries, and a group of young women who take “competitive” to gladiatorial levels. And she hates every sparkly second of it.
Victor Melling (Michael Caine), still a master of elegance and dramatic sighing, returns to whip Gracie into some semblance of poise — despite his growing frustrations with aging, fading industry standards, and contestants who think posture lessons are “oppressive.” Their bickering reaches new heights, but so does their unspoken affection for each other’s absurdity.
Meanwhile, Eric Matthews (Benjamin Bratt) re-enters Gracie’s life with unresolved chemistry, inconvenient charm, and a knack for showing up exactly when Gracie least wants him to. Their dynamic is equal parts tension, teasing, and emotional confusion — especially when old feelings start creeping back between bombs, gowns, and tactical briefings.
Adding to the chaos, Sam Fuller (Regina King) returns as tough-as-nails, always-honest backup. She’s the only person willing to tell Gracie she still walks like a security guard and that her last-minute “formal look” resembles a tactical vest draped in tinsel.
As sabotage intensifies — rigged pyrotechnics, booby-trapped costumes, hacked performance routines, and a mysterious international bomber who seems to anticipate every move — Gracie must juggle global espionage, mentor responsibilities, a rekindling romance, and a pageant stage she never wanted to step on again.
Action-packed, hilarious, heartfelt, and loaded with the chaotic charm that made the series iconic, Crown & Chaos proves one thing once and for all:
You can take Gracie Hart out of the pageant…
but fate will always shove her right back in —
whether she’s ready or not, and heels most definitely optional.