Matt Alvarez Filmography

Occupation:: Executive Producer, Producer

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Janky Promoters

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ice Cube, Mike Epps

Synopsis: Two friends get in over their head when they book a hit rap artist with zero promotional experience in this Dimension Films comedy written, produced and starring Ice Cube. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

3/27/09
Welcome Back, Kotter

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Dimension Films revives the popular '70s sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter and reinvents it to star Ice Cube as a teacher who goes back to his old inner-city haunts to dish out some hard schooling to the uninspired students there. The Hot Chick's Tom Brady writes and directs for Cube Vision Productions. Read More

1/1/09
The Longshots

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ice Cube, Keke Palmer, Tasha Smith, Jill Marie Jones, Dash Mihok, Miles Chandler

Synopsis: Former Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst directs Ice Cube and Keke Palmer in this battle-of-the-sexes sports comedy about a former high-school football star who coaches his niece to become the first-ever girl quarterback in the history of Pop Warner football. Based on a true story, The Longshots Read More

8/22/08
First Sunday

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ice Cube, Katt Williams, Tracy Morgan, Loretta Devine, Michael Beach

Synopsis: Gospel-minded playwright David E. Talbert produces, writes, and directs this urban crime comedy concerning a pair of criminals who take a group of church parishioners hostage while attempting to rob the holy house, only to find their captives slowly convincing them to repent and give up their Read More

1/11/08
Tough Love

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ice Cube

Synopsis: When a hard-nosed NFL star realizes that his kids have grown up to become spoiled brats, he determines to toughen them up by making them spend their summer on the mean streets of Oakland, CA, in this comedy inspired by the story of New England Patriots footballer Tebucky Jones. Though the Read More

1/1/08
Are We Done Yet?

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ice Cube, Nia Long, John C. McGinley, Aleisha Allen, Philip Daniel Bolden

Synopsis: Having decided to ditch the city in favor of the suburbs, a newly formed family purchases a quaint "fixer-upper" that proves to be more trouble than they could have ever anticipated in a rollicking family comedy that's half sequel to Are We There Yet?, and half remake of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House Read More

4/4/07
Black. White. [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

2006
Beauty Shop

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Andie MacDowell, Alicia Silverstone, Mena Suvari, Paige Hurd, Queen Latifah

Synopsis: While the men of Barbershop and Barbershop 2 have plenty to mouth off about, they may have met their match in the female staff and clientele of a nearby beauty shop. Directed by Bille Woodruff, Beauty Shop revolves around these women led by Gina (Queen Latifah), who opened Beauty Shop to give all Read More

3/30/05
Are We There Yet?

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ice Cube, Nia Long, Jay Mohr, M.C. Gainey, Aleisha Allen, Philip Daniel Bolden

Synopsis: Rapper and actor Ice Cube shows off his softer side in this family-friendly comedy. Nick Persons (Ice Cube) is a dealer in sports collectibles who has fallen for beautiful executive Suzanne Kingston (Nia Long). However, Nick discovers he has a bigger task than just winning her over -- Suzanne is a Read More

1/21/05
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Reuben M. Koroma, Francis John Langba, Abdul Rahim Kamara, Efuah Grace, Alhadji Jefferey Kamara

Synopsis: Compared frequently to Wim Wenders's Buena Vista Social Club (1998), the thoughtful and heartfelt documentary Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars (2005) combines the musical elements of that earlier work with a distinctly uplifting and optimistic sociopolitical undercurrent. The story begins in the Read More

2005
Barbershop [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Omar Gooding, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Anna Brown, Wes Chatham, Leslie Elliard, Barry "Shabaka" Henley, Toni Trucks, Dan White

2005
Barbershop 2: Back in Business

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve, Troy Garity

Synopsis: Kevin Rodney Sullivan steps in to direct the urban comedy sequel Barbershop 2: Back in Business. The whole gang -- Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer), Jimmy James (Sean Patrick Thomas), Terri (Eve), Isaac (Troy Garity), Ricky (Michael Ealy), and Dinka (Leonard Earl Howze) -- are still there in the Read More

2/6/04
Friday After Next

Crew: Producer

Actors: K.D. Aubert, Terry Crews, Don "DC" Curry, Bebe Drake, Starletta DuPois

Synopsis: The gang from Friday and Next Friday are back in this urban comedy, in which Craig (Ice Cube) and Day-Day (Mike Epps) have finally moved out of their respective parents' homes and gotten an apartment together. However, a bogus neighborhood Santa Claus (Rickey Smiley) decides to help Craig and Read More

11/22/02
Barbershop

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Cedric the Entertainer, Sean Patrick Thomas, Troy Garity

Synopsis: Calvin (Ice Cube) never wanted to take over the family business, a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Disgusted with the shop's crime-ridden neighborhood, and caught up in his moneymaking schemes, one morning Calvin decides to sell the shop to the shady Lester (Keith David). Chastised by his Read More

9/13/02
All About the Benjamins

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Eva Mendes, Tommy Flanagan, Carmen Chaplin, Anthony Michael Hall

Synopsis: Rap star and actor Ice Cube produces, co-writes, and stars in this comic crime thriller that reunites him with his Next Friday (1999) co-star Mike Epps in the 48 Hrs. (1982) mold. Cube plays Bucum Jackson, a Miami bounty hunter for Martinez Bail Bonds who's tired of his dangerous, unprofitable Read More

3/8/02
Next Friday

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Justin Pierce, John Witherspoon, Don "DC" Curry

Synopsis: In this sequel to the urban comedy Friday, rap music star Ice Cube returns as Craig Jones, a streetwise man from South Central Los Angeles who has a knack for getting into trouble. This time out, Craig is still trying to outsmart neighborhood bully Debo (Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr.); after Craig gets Read More

1/14/00