AOL Weird News has an article (via Stallion Italian comment) about the lack of a big budget competitive eating movie that contains an interview with independent filmmaker Niko Hronopoulos, producer of the "The Eater" a twelve minute parody of competitive eating. A Wing Bowl movie and a competitive eating film by Josh Heald, writer of "Hot Tub Time Machine" were in production around 2005-06, but both projects have apparently been tabled.
Hungry Todd Rungy has posted a video recorded at the 2010 Fantastic Fest in Austin of his attempt to confront actor Ryan Reynolds about a 2007 Huffington Post blog entry attacking competitive eating. Rungy has also set up a facebook group calling for a boycott of Reynolds' new movie The Green Lantern. (In the blog entry Reynolds calls Don Lerman "my main man")
A New York Post article about Stand by Me reports that director Rob Reiner almost cut the famous pie eating contest from the 1986 movie. The fake vomit used in that scene consisted of large-curd cottage cheese and blueberry pie filling.
b michael and sady doyle have sketched out a competitive eating film called Eating Harvard. Projected actors for the movie include Bill Murray, Robert Downey, Jr., Amy Poehler and Method Man & Redman.
"Mark Wahlberg's Eating Contest Entourage" is one of the extras in The Other Guys DVD. (It is not clear if Mark's competitive eater friend is an actor or an actual competitive eater.) The Coney Island Nathan's was one of the locations for the film.
JoBlo has a list of the top 10 overeating scenes in in cinematic history illustrated with a picture of Eric "Badlands" Booker at Denny's Beer Barrel Pub.
AJC.com reports that Paul Barlow will play a lawyer in the upcoming Ryan Reynolds / Jason Bateman movie, The Change Up, which is currently filming in Atlanta. Olivia Wilde, who claims that she lost a brownie eating contest to Chris Farley of Saturday Night Live when she was ten, will also co-star.
Carolina Live has an article about filming a crab eating contest in director Barry Levinson's ("Diner") upcoming movie "The Bay" in Georgetown, SC.
The Will Ferrell & Mark Wahlberg movie The Other Guys opening today has a scene at the Coney Island Nathan's where New York Yankee Derek Jeter plays a panhandler.
Competitive goldfish eating “mockumentary” debuts
The Story of Furious Pete is not the only competitive eating film to debut at a Great Lakes film festival this month. Jared Mobarak has a review of Bad Fish a “mockumentary” about competitive goldfish eating which was screened on April 16 at the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival. The protagonists are members of NICCAGE (The National and International Community of Competitors in the Association of Goldfish Eating). The film includes footage from the Buffalo Wing Festival.
The DVD of the 2006 Hungarian movie Taxidermia will go on sale in North America tomorrow. A clip of eating contest scenes in Taxidermia is available on youtube.
Enter the Man-Cave reviews Nacho mountain
Enter The Man-Cave has a review of Nacho Mountain. The reviewer purchased his DVD of the movie from the films creators at a hotel bar.
(from "Tiny" Tim) DVDs of Nacho Mountain are now available for sale. There will also be a screening of the movie at the Grand Theater in East Greenville, PA on March 28.
CityPaper on “Swallow Your Pride” screening
The Philadelphia City Paper has an interview with Bill “El Wingador” Simmons who will attend Monday’s screening of the Wing Bowl documentary “Swallow Your Pride” at National Mechanics in Philadelphia. Simmons believes he should have defeated Sonya Thomas in the 2004 Wing Bowl.
A youtube page has been set up with clips from Swallow Your Pride
“Hot Tub Time Machine” writer previously wrote “AYCE” movie
The first screenplay written by Josh Heald (twitter), writer of the upcoming movie “Hot Tub Time Machine” (March 26 release), was “All You Can Eat”, a comedy set in the world of competitive eating. To research his subject, Heald competed in the 2006 Nathan’s Las Vegas qualifier and ate 11 hot dogs in 12 minutes. (Joey Chestnut was the first American to break 50 hot dogs at that contest.) The Los Angeles Times reports that Heald won the amateur competition at the 2006 chili cheese fries eating contest.
Josh Heald’s IMDB page lists “All You Can Eat” as “In Development”. The script was sold to New Line in 2004.
Philly.com reports that an eating contest might be held in conjunction with a March 8 screening of the Wing Bowl documentary Swallow Your Pride
Chapters 3 & 4 of "More Than I Could Chew" have been uploaded to youtube. The narrated fictional slideshow includes pictures of an eating contest against a bear.
Wing Bowl movie listed as inactive
A list of films by Tollin Productions places the fictional Wing Bowl movie in the inactive projects category.
ESPN’s USFL documentary, which will be rerun tonight on ESPN2, is another film by Tollin Productions.
A New York City craigslist posting seeks a film maker and subjects for a documentary about lower ranked competitive eaters.
Christopher Elston has a blog entry about the premiere of Nacho Mountain.
A wing eating contest will be held at tomorrow's screening of Nacho Mountain at the Tally Ho Tavern in Bethlehem, PA.
The Morning Call has an article about Nacho Mountain which will premier this weekend at the Grand Theater in East Greenville, Pennsylvania. The 50 pound Mount Olympus burger at the Clinton Station Diner will be featured in one of the scenes.
Tickets for the December 18 & 19 premiere showings of Nacho Mountain at the Grand Theater in East Greenville, Pennsylvania can be purchased online.
Nacho Mountains of fact & fiction
WXYZ.com: Tios Mexican Cafe in Ann Arbor, Michigan will hold a “Mount Nacheesmo” eating contest on November 14 in which competitors will try to eat five pounds of nachos in under 45 minutes.
In other nacho news, the IMDB page for Nacho Mountain, which once listed Joey Chestnut as a cast member, reports it will be released on December 18, 2009. Rick the Manager does appear on the current cast list.
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