On December 16, Piada Italian Street Food in Easton, OH will hold a spaghetti eating contest inspired by the movie "Elf". The pasta toppings will be maple syrup, chocolate syrup, marshmallows, M&Ms, rainbow sprinkles and a Chocolate Fudge Pop-Tart.
Sally Field competes in a hot wing contest MCed by Guy Fieri in a preview of "80 For Brady". The movie, which will be released on February 3, also stars Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda and Rita Morena and is based on a real world story about a quartet of friends attempting to obtain tickets for Super Bowl LI to see the New England Patriots play the Atlanta Falcons.
Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie appear in the latest video (at 3:45 mark) by Mr. Beast which recreates Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. The video is currently the #1 trending video on youtube.
Vorstus posted a screen capture from the "The Incredibles" of the superheroes database providing information about "Mr. Incredible", the star of the Pixar film. It says he ate 47 boysenberry pies, 8 banana splits, 3 apple crumbs and a liter of mayonnaise to win an eating contest at a picnic.
"Glizzy Gladiator", a fictional movie project about a former hot dog eating champion's comeback, has hit its fundraising goal on kickstarter. Pledges will close today.
Actor Charles Grodin passed away at the age of 86. The hamburger eating contest he competed in from Beethoven's 2nd in 1993 is on of the more famous competitive eating scenes in cinematic history.
A 4channel.org post claims that Marlon Brando challenged Paul Newman to an egg eating contest at a Hollywood party in 1968. The competition was inspired by a scene in "Cool Hand Luke" in which Newman's character attempted to eat 50 eggs. After the challenge was declined, Brando ate eggs solo, eventually finishing with 51 eggs. The story was from the book "True Hollywood Tales", published in 1997.
Kate Ovens' latest video was inspired by the restaurant scene from the 2004 comedy "White Chicks". Actor Terry Crews, one of the diners in the scene, praised the video. (clip from movie)
Looper on “Stand by Me” pie eating contest
Looper has a post about filming the pie eating contest in Stand by Me with a focus on the vomiting scene.
Without a doubt, it’s the most special effects-heavy scene in all of Stand By Me — long before CGI became the standard. So how was it done? According to director Rob Reiner and Hogan actor Andy Lindberg in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, it took a bit of trial and error to get the projectile vomit to look right (via Screen Rant). The repulsive-looking stuff was made of large-curd cottage cheese mixed with blueberry pie filling, and that secret formula was kept throughout the process. The real problem came in figuring out how to shoot the “vomit” from the tube taped to the side of Lindberg’s face.
Inspired by Aretha Franklin's scene in "The Blues Brothers", Geoff Esper attempted to eat 4 fried chickens, toast and a Coke in a recent video.
The ill-fated pie eating contest in "Stand By Me" makes Broadway World's list of top 101 movie scenes of all time.
"Meatballs", the 1979 summer camp comedy starring Bill Murray, can be viewed for free on youtube movies. One of the movie's notable scenes is a hot dog eating contest between the Fink and the Stomach.
"I am Full" a short horror film about a burger challenge by Orlando Torres can be viewed at https://www.iamfullfilm.com/. The film's description is "Kyle, the local competitive eater is met against with the monstrous sized Meat Me Burger Challenge. If he doesn't finish he will have to face the consequences."
Kevin "LA Beast" Strahle bypassed the New Jersey curfew to visit filming sites for "Dirty Dancing". Despite the movie's Catskills setting, it was actually produced in Virginia and North Carolina. update The trip was started before the curfew was implemented.
A movie about Indian competitive eater Theeta Rappai (not in English, no subtitles) can be viewed on youtube.
BirthMoviesDeath.com has a post titled A Love Letter To STAND BY ME’s Pie-Eating Contest
The hot dog eating contest from the Oscar nominated movie "The Green Book" can be viewed on youtube. The clip opens with Viggo Mortensen's character claiming that he can eat 48 White Castle burgers.
The Chicago Tribune has a report on "Mommy's Little PIggy" mashed potato eating contest held as part of "A Christmas Story Comes Home" in Hammond, IN on December 15.
Yahoo has an article about how Viggo Mortensen changed his physique to play a big eating driver/bodyguard in Green Book. Director Peter Farrelly estimates he ate 15 hot dogs to film a hot dog eating contest scene.
Viggo Mortensen, best known for portraying Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, competes in a hot dog eating contest in an opening scene of the new movie "Green Book".
I Am Full, an independent horror movie about a burger challenge has completed filming and will be submitted to film festivals in 2019.
RIP Aretha Franklin. While best known for her musical career, she was also an actress in one of the most famous big eating scenes in American cinema history: "4 fried chickens and a Coke" from The Blues Brothers. (Her husband in that scene, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, passed away earlier this year in June)
DeccanChronicle has an article about a new movie about Indian competitive eater Theeta Rapai. The BBC wrote an article about his retirement in 2006. TheNewsMinute also has an article about the film project.
TailStix has an interview with "Super" Paul Barlow mainly about his movie roles. He also mentions the origin of his competitive eating career and the book he wrote "You Know You’re A College Student When…�
TV Overmind has a list of five entertaining competitive eating scenes from movies.
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