A screenplay for a Wing Bowl movie titled "Wingman" has been produced by MAJA pictures. They hope to film at Wing Bowl 23.
The Hungry Todd Rungy Show will be screened at the ColdTowne Theater in Austin on August 12. Short episodes of the program will be released on youtube starting later this month. (via slackerwood)
Cast members of the new movie Neighbors will judge an eating contest at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln today.
FunnyOrDie.com has a list of Oscar picks and mini movie reviews reportedly by Joey Chestnut.
Jamie McDonald will compete in a Hobbit menu eating contest at the New Haven, CT Denny's on December 9. He will face teams of two or three in a "Radagast’s Red Velvet Pancake Puppies" eating competition.
A fake trailer video (may not be safe for work) has been produced for "Feed to Kill", a horror movie set in the world of French competitive eating. Project blog | facebook (via Dread Central)
Former IFOCE/MLE member Kevin Carr has an article for Film School Rejects about eating more than 50 eggs in less than one hour.
Tim Brown is selling on eBay over 1000 DVDs and videotapes owned by Crazy Legs Conti. The current bid is $800 and bidding ends May 28.
Telly.com has a video about the filming of the scene in "The Guilt Trip" where Barbra Streisand attempts a steak challenge (a substitute food was used for the eating scenes). The movie was released on DVD Tuesday.
In a review of Barry Levinson's new movie The Bay, the Financial Times claims "The disintegration of the annual crab-eating contest is a scene of grimly comical perfection".
The 2009 competitive eating comedy Nacho Mountain can be viewed in its entirety on youtube.
Extras witnessing a chicken eating contest are needed for a movie starring porn star Ron Jeremy being filmed in Wilmington, NC on March 7.
The Heart of a Champion, a movie project about Roland Beef's choice between competitive eating and his girlfriend, is seeking to raise $10,000 on IndieGoGo.com.
Yahoo! Movies has a blog entry about the release of a promo video made to congratulate Barbra Streisand for receving a Golden Globs nomination for Guilt Trip (She was not nominated) where she talks about filming the 50 ounce steak challenge scene: "It was disgusting because I don't love steak".
Steve Miller has a review of the 2009 low budget competitive eating comedy Nacho Mountain. He thought the eating contest scenes were funny, but the remainder of the movie could have used a stronger script.
Yahoo has a trailer for the upcoming movie The Guilt Trip where (at 1:50 mark) Barbra Streisand attempts a 50 ounce steak challenge. (via I am Rogue) (In a 1966 article in Detroit Magazine, Barbra Streisand is called "the biggest eater I ever saw")
The Guardian has a preview of Barry Levinson's new movie, The Bay, which opens with a Maryland crab-eating contest where the competitors die from a fish parasite in their food which has mutated to consume human flesh.
A giant gummy bear eating contest will be held at tonight's screening of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory at the Alamo Drafthouse in San Antonio.
A chain of theaters in Asheville, Charlotte, and Raleigh, NC will hold eating contests to benefit local food banks on Thursday night before the premier of The Hunger Games after midnight.
Screen.yahoo.com has a parody of The Hunger Games trailer titled The Hungry Games.
CNN has an article about "Super" Paul "Bonebreaker" Barlow's career as a movie extra (via Badlands Booker). Paul's IMDB page lists that he will appear in three 2012 movies.
"The Fast and the Fullest" a competitive eating comedy by Drew Fogg, won the award for best screenplay at the Jax Film Fest.
Grassy Knolls Movie Nights will hold a hard boiled egg eating contest as part of its showing of Cool Hand Luke in Nashville on Sunday.
Eric "Badlands" Booker reports that "Super" Paul Barlow will appear in the movie The Change-Up, which will open tomorrow.
Shirtoid.com is selling T-shirts for fictional eating challenges based on Star Wars ("Jabba's Platter - It's Enough to Stuff a Sarlac!") and Harry Potter.
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