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This outrageously funny esports comedy follows Vivian "V" Lee (Paris Berelc), a competitive gamer whose impressive skills have landed her a college scholarship and a place on the Betas, Barrett University's male-dominated team. But when the Betas' captain Dustin (Taylor Zakhar Perez) tells V she'll never be a starting player, it's game on. Joined by her best friend Sloane (Hari Nef), and under the guidance of her coach Parker (Ruby Rose), V forms a fierce all-girl team to band together with one common goal: level up to the nationals...and take down the Betas!

Genre: Comedy

Original Language: English

Director: Kyle Newman

Producer: Jason Moring , Michael Philip , Richard Alan Reid

Writer: Julia Yorks

Release Date (Streaming): Jul 15, 2022

Runtime: 1h 40m

Production Co: Buzzfeed Studios, CR8IV DNA

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Paris Berelc

Taylor Zakhar

Nicholas Coombe

Kevin P. Farley

Aviva Mongillo

Kyle Newman

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Jordan Madley

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Lolita Milena

Stephen Joffe

Julia Yorks

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Jason Moring

Michael Philip

Richard Alan Reid

Anthony Burns

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Film Editing

Jessica Rose Weiss

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Elizabeth Bischof

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David Allen Butler

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Danny Burke

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Alisa Krost

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Crass esports comedy has language, drugs, and alcohol.

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Positive messages on diversity and inclusion, team

Sloane is a trans woman who finds belonging in gam

Diversity by gender, ethnicity, race, ability, bod

Some scenes of video game violence, as knights and

Crass talk and trash talk about sex, masturbation.

Strong language throughout. "A--holes," "s--t," va

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Parents need to know that 1UP is a 2022 comedy in which a team of college-age misfits form an all-female esports team to take on the sexist boys' team at the school. There's diversity on the team, including a trans woman and a woman in a wheelchair. Characters talk about finding a sense of community and…

Positive Messages

Positive messages on diversity and inclusion, teamwork.

Positive Role Models

Sloane is a trans woman who finds belonging in gaming and talks about how there were more Starbucks than people like her in her hometown. Jenna is in a wheelchair after a childhood accident left her paralyzed from the waist down and finds community and belonging through gaming and through her celebrity as a social media influencer. V stands up to the sexism she encounters while trying to be on her school's esports team. Lots of stereotypes.

Diverse Representations

Diversity by gender, ethnicity, race, ability, body type.

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Violence & Scariness

Some scenes of video game violence, as knights and wizards fight with swords, axes, and spells.

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Crass talk and trash talk about sex, masturbation. References to sex toys and sex acts.

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Strong language throughout. "A--holes," "s--t," variations on "d--k" ("d--kbag," "d--kwhistle," etc.), "c--k," "queef," "t-ts," "bitches," "ass," "badass," "goddammit." Middle-finger gesture, masturbation hand gesture. Announcer makes joke about a team's mascot that references a sex act involving defecation.

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Products & Purchases

Mercedes-Benz plays an outsized role near end of movie. Pizza Hut boxes clearly shown when team orders pizza. Ruffles potato chips are the brand of choice. Direct reference to video games like Assassin's Creed, Sonic the Hedgehog, Minecraft, Fortnite, etc.

Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

Lead character and best friend shown tripping on mushrooms after lead character's roommate gives them laced cookies and doesn't tell them they're laced. They're shown high, giggling, hallucinating Mario bouncing around the dorm room. Talk of being high on Ecstasy. Head coach of the esports team, a professor at the college, takes the team to an old rec room filled with classic video games and pinball machines and gets them drunk as a way to relax and bond as a team.

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Parents need to know that 1UP is a 2022 comedy in which a team of college-age misfits form an all-female esports team to take on the sexist boys' team at the school. There's diversity on the team, including a trans woman and a woman in a wheelchair. Characters talk about finding a sense of community and belonging through gaming, in ways they rarely if ever experienced in the rest of their lives. The film has crass talk and trash talk about sex and masturbation, references to sex toys and sex acts, the middle-finger gesture and masturbation hand gestures. Strong language throughout includes "a--holes," "s--t," variations on "d--k," "c--k," "queef," "t-ts," "bitches," "ass," and "goddammit." An announcer makes a joke about a team's mascot that references a sex act involving defecation. A lead character and a friend are shown high on mushrooms after the lead's roommate gives them laced cookies without telling them they're laced -- earlier, the same roommate tried giving them drugged brownies. An adult coach/chaperone gets the team drunk in an old rec room as a way to relax and bond. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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What's the Story?

In 1UP, V ( Paris Berelc ) and Sloane (Hari Nef) are best friends who are teammates on their college's esports team, the Betas. While V is attending Barrett College on an esports scholarship, she and Sloane are perpetual benchwarmers due to Dustin, the team captain, being an obnoxious jock who doesn't think women can compete with the men in esports. Tired of Dustin's attitude, V and Sloane quit the Betas and decide to start their own team: The 8-Bits. Their coach, Parker ( Ruby Rose ), a video game history professor at the school, must find a way to make this team of quirky misfits work together. When V learns that the school is planning on keeping only one esports team for next year, she must find a way to take the 8-Bits all the way to the national championships, even as Dustin and the other Betas are determined to stop them by any means necessary.

Is It Any Good?

You can't break stereotypes and clichés while also heavily relying on stereotypes and clichés. And yet, 1Up tries to do just that. It champions diversity and inclusion in an arena (esports) that has had its share of controversy concerning the overall culture, even as countless individuals have found a sense of belonging and community in that culture in ways they may not experience in the off-screen world. The movie does its best to address and confront these aspects to gaming culture, but it's also trying to be a kind of coming-of-age college comedy with bawdy language, dorm room 'shroom trips, and awkward first dates.

It doesn't work, mostly because it's trying to break the mold while remaining firmly entrenched in the mold of the "scrappy misfit" sports movie. Besides those stereotyped jocks, there are also the clichés of the "nice guy," the middle-aged administrator trying to remain relevant to "the kids" by using the parlance of today (in this instance, "cancel" and "my pronouns are..."), and the blissed-out roommate fond of yoga and hallucinogens, among other beyond exhausted character types. Also, 15 minutes into the movie, you can easily guess who the team of scrappy misfits will play in the movie's climactic scene and how that will turn out for them. Ultimately, as a movie that's trying to be a comedy, in spite of any good intentions, it's not all that funny.

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Families can talk about how gaming and esports are represented in 1Up . Did it accurately portray gaming culture? Why, or why not?

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Why is it important to have greater diversity in movies? How does this movie show the ways in which gaming can be inclusive to all?

Movie Details

• On DVD or streaming : July 15, 2022
• Cast : Ruby Rose , Paris Berelc , Hari Nef
• Director : Kyle Newman
• Inclusion Information : Female actors, Transgender actors
• Studio : Buzzfeed Studios
• Genre : Comedy
• Run time : 100 minutes
• MPAA rating : R
• MPAA explanation : Sexual material, some language and drug use.
• Last updated : December 1, 2022

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2022 Directed by Kyle Newman

After Valerie Lee quits her college esports team, she quickly realizes that her decision comes at the cost of her scholarship. Valerie soon discovers a loophole to save her collegiate future, if she can find a coach and assemble a whole new varsity-caliber team capable of reaching the State Finals.

Paris Berelc Ruby Rose Taylor Zakhar Perez Hari Nef Nicholas Coombe Jordan Madley Robert Levey II Lolita Milena Jean-Michel Le Gal Ramis Khan Elias Pressler Wayne Yuan Darcy Williamson Paul Scheer Eliott Ritter Naomi Kyle Madison Baines D.J. Mausner Kevin Farley Stephen Joffe Aviva Mongillo Kataem O'Connor Daniel Williston Kyla Musselman Matias Garrido Kyle Newman Marko Vujicic

Director Director

Kyle Newman

Producers Producers

Michael Philip Richard Alan Reid Jason Moring

Writer Writer

Julia Yorks

Cinematography Cinematography

Kristofer Bonnell

Art Direction Art Direction

David Butler

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'1UP' Trailer Shows Paris Berelc Leading an All-Girls Esports Team Primed and Ready to Win [Exclusive]

It's win or game over in Kyle Newman's new film.

Collider is excited to unveil an exclusive trailer for Kyle Newman 's new film for Prime Video 1UP , a tale of one girl's journey to form an all-girls Esports team and take down the sexist boys group that cast her out. The trailer sees Paris Berelc ( Hubie Halloween ) round up a group of girls that are ready to game and finds a coach in the form of her professor ( Ruby Rose ) to train them ahead of the big matchup that will decide not just the fate of their team, but their fate in the school. The film is set to release exclusively on Prime Video on July 15.

The footage properly introduces Vivian Lee (Berelc), aka V, a varsity Esports player who breathes gaming. It's all she does day and night with hopes of carrying her team, The Betas, to success. Unfortunately for her, The Betas suck. Despite being a nationally ranked player on her team, her male teammates don't see her for her skills but only allow her on the team because she's a girl. They are the epitome of "git gud scrub" obnoxious male gamers. Team leader Dustin ( Taylor Zakhar Perez ) is particularly degrading and won't take fault for his mistakes, all pushing V to, understandably, quit the team in disgust even if it means putting her scholarship in danger. She has only one course of action to keep it - form a new varsity team. With funding only available for one team, her path runs straight through The Betas.

The rest of the trailer is essentially a training montage as part of V, her friend, and their new female teammates' revenge arc. At first, things don't go well with The Betas trouncing them, but no good revenge arc starts without the heroes at their lowest. This ragtag group finds their savior in their professor who gives them a new name, The 8-Bits, and all the old-school gaming training they need to succeed. Her methods are unconventional, ranging from live-action role-playing to creating a "realistic" Beta dummy to focus their anger on, but it's enough to prepare them for nationals, and for The Betas.

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Alongside Berelc, Rose, and Zakhar Perez, 1UP also features Hari Nef ( Assassination Nation ), Nicholas Coombe ( The Wilds ), D.J. Mausner ( Insecure ), Madison Baines ( Transplant ), Lolita Milena , Kevin Farley ( The Waterboy ), and Stephen Joffe ( Alias Grace ). Originally, Rose's role as the team's coach and generally cool, all-inclusive gaming professor Parker was held by The Umbrella Academy star Elliot Page , but the actor ultimately stepped away from the production.

Newman directs and also has a part in the film with Julia Yorks ( The Adventures of Puss in Boots ) on board to write. 1UP marks Newman's first feature behind the camera since his 2015 action comedy Barely Lethal . Newman is also known for working alongside major music artists, directing two videos for Lana Del Ray as well as for Taylor Swift 's "Style." The film is a collaboration between Lionsgate and BuzzFeed Studios.

1UP releases on Prime Video on July 15, 2022. Check out the exclusive trailer, a quote from Newman about the film, and a new still and poster below.

I am beyond thrilled to share the trailer for my new film 1UP. (To my knowledge) It’s the first scripted comedy set in the very current world of eSports. My mission was to craft a film that does justice to modern gaming, as well as one that speaks to all generations of gamers. From Pong to League of Legends , Super Mario to Cuphead… the film is brimming with references and Easter eggs to arcade and console classics. It’s a pop culture bonanza! Gaming is truly for everyone — but certain stigmas still permeate game culture. 1UP offers a very real commentary, in a heightened and comedic way, on those divides. And while 1UP is a gender comedy at heart, it’s also a sports film. As a filmmaker, it was a real challenge to invigorate life into watching people watch screens. But we developed a lively and kinetic visual vernacular which, I hope, pulls viewers in and showcases this exciting sport. Everyone is also playing a new game in 1UP ( Knights of the Elder Orb ) and at times the story takes us into that game which provides for some truly memorable scenes. The film boasts over 1100 VFX shots and nearly 4 minutes of animation (in a multitude of styles). It was a beast of a film to shoot in just 25 days on a tiny budget, to say the least. It was pure joy to work with this gifted cast (anchored by Paris Berelc, Ruby Rose, Hari Nef and Taylor Zakhar Perez) and the forward-thinking Richard Reid at Buzzfeed Studios. I really believe we’ve crafted a story that gamers can be proud of — I know we are.

Ruby Rose & Hari Nef & Paris Berelc in eSports Comedy '1UP' Trailer

by Alex Billington June 22, 2022 Source: YouTube

"You never go full chicken, Lilly!" Lionsgate has unveiled the official trailer for an eSports comedy titled 1UP , the latest from filmmaker Kyle Newman (of Fanboys and Barely Lethal previously). The film is about a gamer who quits her college sports team due to sexism from all the men, and decides to start her own team to compete in the league and beat the men. This borrows the classic 90s sports comedy movie structure where a frustrated but talented player breaks off and creates an underdog team as they fight to take down their former teammates - except that this is set in the eSports world where racism & sexism is still rampant. Paris Berelc stars as "V", for Vivian, and is joined by Ruby Rose , Hari Nef , Madison Baines , Lolita Milena , D.J. Mausner , Taylor Zakhar Perez , & Naomi Kyle . It does look like direct-to-video quality, but might still be funny enough to enjoy. What's the game they're playing in the big competition? Have fun.

Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Kyle Newman's 1UP movie, direct from Lionsgate's YouTube :

This outrageously funny eSports comedy follows V (Paris Berelc), a competitive gamer whose impressive skills land her a college scholarship and a place on the Betas, the school’s male-dominated team. But when the Betas' captain Dustin (Taylor Zakhar Perez) tells V she will never be a starting player, it's game on. Joined by her best friend Sloane (Hari Nef), and under the guidance of her coach (Ruby Rose), V and a fierce all-girl team band together for one common goal: level up to the nationals… and take down the Betas! 1UP is directed by American filmmaker / writer Kyle Newman , director of the films Fanboys and Barely Lethal previously, as well as "The Crazies" TV series and a few other short films. The screenplay is written by Julia Yorks. This hasn't premiered at any festivals or elsewhere, as far as we know. Lionsgate will debut Newman's 1UP streaming on Prime Video starting July 15th, 2022 this summer. How does it look?

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1up trailer gives first look at ruby rose’s new video game comedy.

The upcoming film 1Up explores sexism within the world of competitive gaming and finds Ruby Rose playing the coach of a college esports team.

The trailer for  1Up  is offering a first look at Ruby Rose's latest film, which centers around the world of competitive gaming. Directed by Kyle Newman, whose previous work includes  Fanboys and Barely Lethal , the upcoming comedy follows Vivian, an esports gamer who, after receiving a college scholarship to play for Barrett University, faces sexism within the school's male-dominated squad and ends up forming her own all-girls team to compete at nationals. In addition to Rose, who stars as Vivian's coach, Parker, the film features  Hubie Halloween 's Paris Berelc , Taylor Zakhar Perez, and Hari Nef. 1Up , produced by Lionsgate and Buzzfeed Studios, is set to premiere on Amazon Prime on July 15, 2022.

The first trailer for 1Up  was recently released by Lionsgate Movies  and introduces audiences to Berelc's nationally-ranked player Vivian, as well as the dynamic between her and Dustin, the captain of Barrett's team. It also reveals a lot about Parker and previews some of her seemingly unconventional coaching tactics. Check out the full trailer for 1Up below:

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Ruby Rose is perhaps best known for her roles in popular projects such as Orange Is the New Black and Pitch Perfect 3 . Most recently, she starred as Kate Kane on the CW's Batwoman  before exiting after one season and later issuing complaints against Warner Bros.  With a surrounding cast full of rising talent, 1Up  certainly has all of the makings of a hit, and followers of Rose can check it out when it hits Amazon Prime next month.

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"Up" is a wonderful film, with characters who are as believable as any characters can be who spend much of their time floating above the rain forests of Venezuela. They have tempers, problems and obsessions. They are cute and goofy, but they aren't cute in the treacly way of little cartoon animals. They're cute in the human way of the animation master Hayao Miyazaki . Two of the three central characters are cranky old men, which is a wonder in this youth-obsessed era. "Up" doesn't think all heroes must be young or sweet, although the third important character is a nervy kid.

This is another masterwork from Pixar, which is leading the charge in modern animation. The movie was directed by Pete Docter , who also directed " Monsters, Inc. ," wrote " Toy Story " and was a co-writer on "WALL-E" before leaving to devote full time to this project. So Docter's one of the leading artists of this latest renaissance of animation.

The movie will be shown in 3-D in some theaters, about which I will say nothing, except to advise you to save the extra money and see it in 2-D. One of the film's qualities that is likely to be diminished by 3-D is its subtle and beautiful color palette. "Up," like " Finding Nemo ," "Toy Story," " Shrek " and " The Lion King ," uses colors in a way particularly suited to its content.

"Up" tells a story as tickling to the imagination as the magical animated films of my childhood, when I naively thought that because their colors were brighter, their character outlines more defined and their plots simpler, they were actually more realistic than regular films.

It begins with a romance as sweet and lovely as any I can recall in feature animation. Two children named Carl and Ellie meet and discover they share the same dream of someday being explorers. In newsreels, they see the exploits of a daring adventurer named Charles Muntz ( Christopher Plummer ), who uses his gigantic airship to explore a lost world on a plateau in Venezuela and then bring back the bones of fantastic creatures previously unknown to man. When his discoveries are accused of being faked, he flies off enraged to South America again, vowing to bring back living creatures to prove his claims.

Nothing is heard from him for years. Ellie and Carl ( Edward Asner ) grow up, have a courtship, marry, buy a ramshackle house and turn it into their dream home, are happy together and grow old. This process is silent, except for music (the elder Ellie doesn't even have a voice credit). It's shown by Docter in a lovely sequence, without dialogue, that deals with the life experience in a way that is almost never found in family animation. The lovebirds save their loose change in a gallon jug intended to finance their trip to the legendary Paradise Falls, but real life gets in the way: flat tires, home repairs, medical bills. Then they make a heartbreaking discovery. This interlude is poetic and touching.

The focus of the film is on Carl's life after Ellie. He becomes a recluse, holds out against the world, keeps his home as a memorial, talks to the absent Ellie. One day he decides to pack up and fly away -- literally. Having worked all his life as a balloon man, he has the equipment on hand to suspend the house from countless helium-filled balloons and fulfill his dream of seeking Paradise Falls. What he wasn't counting on was an inadvertent stowaway, Russell ( Jordan Nagai ), a dutiful Wilderness Explorer Scout, who looks Asian American.

What they find at Paradise Falls and what happens there I will not say. But I will describe Charles Muntz's gigantic airship that is hovering there. It's a triumph of design, and perhaps owes its inspiration, though not its appearance, to Miyazaki's "Castle in the Sky." The exterior is nothing special: a really big zeppelin. But the interior is one of those movie spaces you have the feeling you'll remember.

With vast inside spaces, the airship is outfitted like a great ocean liner from the golden age, with a stately dining room, long corridors, a display space rivaling the Natural History Museum and an attic spacious enough to harbor fighter planes. Muntz, who must be a centenarian by now, is hale, hearty and mean, his solitary life shared only by robotic dogs.

The adventures on the jungle plateau are satisfying in a Mummy/Tomb Raider/Indiana Jones sort of way. But they aren't the whole point of the film. This isn't a movie like " Monsters vs. Aliens ," which is mostly just frenetic action. There are stakes here, and personalities involved, and two old men battling for meaning in their lives. And a kid who, for once, isn't smarter than all the adults. And a loyal dog. And an animal sidekick. And always that house and those balloons.

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