Barbershop (franchise)

Barbershop
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Based on	Characters created by Mark Brown
Starring	Ice Cube Queen Latifah Various actors (See details below)
Production companies	New Line Cinema (3) Cube Vision
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1-3) Warner Bros. Pictures (4)
Release date	2002–present
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	Total (4 films): $87 million
Box office	Total (4 films): $235,310,741

The Barbershop franchise consists of American comedy installments including four theatrical movies, and a spin-off TV series. Based on an original story by Mark Brown, the plot centers around the social lives of and the events that employees of a barbershop on social life in a barbershop on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois encounter.

The series received generally positive reviews and grossed over $235 million worldwide.^{[citation needed]}