Craigslist has a request for six people to play competitive eaters in a Chicago-area film shoot on October 22 and 23. Professional competitive eating experience is preferred, but not required. 30 extras are also needed for the shoot.
Documentarian Errol Morris, winner of the 2004 Academy Award for The Fog of War, interviewed Bill "El Wingador" Simmons and four other wing eating champions. Morris says he would like to appear with Simmons on The Charlie Rose Show on PBS, but no invitation has been exteneded.
TriggerStreet has a review of a competitive eating screeplay titled From the Gut. Joey Chestnut and other real-life eaters are characters in the script.
Washington Capitals owner Ted Leonsis calls competitive eating the fastest growing sport and has a link to Swallow Your Pride which is now available in its entirety on snagfilms.com
Full Swallow Your Pride on sling.com
The full version of the 2005 Wing Bowl documentary Swallow Your Pride can be viewed on sling.com for free. The previous version was missing the last 20 minutes.
Swallow Your Pride on sling.com
(From indiewire) The first 66 minutes of the 2005 Wing Bowl documentary, Swallow Your Pride, can be viewed for free at http://beta.sling.com/video/show/121148/58/Swallow-Your-Pride The video is billed as the full version of the movie even though the last 20 minutes are missing.
Mania.com has a review of the recently released Gluttonous DVD in which Nobuyuki Shirota and "Gal" Sone appear.
“Swallow Your Pride” on sale at amazon.com
(From Brian Dwyer comment) The Wing Bowl 13 documentary Swallow Your Pride is for sale on amazon.com at a price of $19.99. Angelo Cataldi, Al Morganti and Bill Simmons are listed as the stars.
Link Buffet: January 19, 2009
- Beautiful Brian wants to know who will stop the Shea Stadium rain
- Rice and Bean Pot burrito eating contest at Boston area colleges starts January 27
- Nacho eating contest in Paul Blart: Mall Cop
- Questions about performance enhancing substances in competitive eating
- Picture of 29 inch pizza at American Pie Pizza in Florida
- Oyster Bowl X to award 4 Night All Inclusive Trip to Cancun or Punta Cana for two Adults
- Hot dog eating contest in Hong Kong
- A youtube page by “Kobayashi”
- Don Lerman has resumed competitive eating posts on mosesnews.com
- Olivia Wilde of House MD once ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes to win an eating contest – interview video (from Sebastian Walters)
“Swallow Your Pride” available on itunes
Mike Westinghouse commented that the Wing Bowl documentary Swallow Your Pride is available on itunes. The cost is $3.99 to rent, $14.99 to purchase.
“Gluttonous” / “Gourmet Fighter” ordering information
The movie Gluttonous (known in Japan as Gourmet Fighter, is not just available for rental on Netflix. It can also be ordered from several locations:
Family Video $11.99
Buy.com $13.49
Overstock.com $13.57
Amazon.com $17.99
The DVD contains volume 1 and volume 2. Volume 1 and 2 cost ï¿¥ 4,935 ($55.35) each on amazon.co.jp, so Japanese fans with access to a DVD player which plays North American DVDs might want to try to import the American DVDs.
Swallow Your Pride official release coming soon
Josh Camerote, director of the 2005 Wing Bowl documentary, Swallow Your Pride, reports that his film will be officially released by Cinetic Media. The release date was supposed to take place last month, but the film has yet to come out. The movie’s official website just says “Check back soon”
Subtitled Gal Sone / Shirota movie available on Netflix
Hacking Netflix reports that a movie called Gluttonous will be available tomorrow. The Netflix website has the following description for the movie:
Based on a popular Japanese manga, this pair of sidesplitting live action comedies follows the screwball exploits of a host of unconventional participants in the ferociously intense world of competitive eating. While most people try to temper their food intake, these competitors pride themselves on swallowing as much food as they can in the shortest possible time — and keeping it down long enough to win!
Gluttonous is known in Japan as Gourmet Fighter Both Natsuko “Gal” Sone and Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota appeared as competitive eaters in Gourmet Fighter. Volume 1 and Volume 2 are included in the Netflix rental.
Link Buffet: November 26, 2008
- Nacho Mountain trailer, probably not safe for work
- Ian Hickman’s page on videojug.com. He is listed as the competitive eating expert on that website and has at least 9 interview clips.
- Michael Phelps to appear on 60 Minutes this Sunday. He says his actual calorie consumption during training is 8,000-10,000 and not the reported 12,000
- Kielbasa eating contest in New Orleans Saturday
- Kevin Carr is attempting to start his own religion
- Pumpkin pie eating contest tonight in New Oxford (York area), PA
- Article about Tiffany Kuhne, who was awarded a Volvo used in the movie Twilight after winning a pie eating contest on the Tyra Banks show
Competitive eating movies release dates
The Mainichi Shimbun reports that a media event was held to promote the August 9 release of the movie, Kamen Rider Kiva: The King of Hell Castle Natsuko “Gal” Sone, who will play a Medusa character in the movie, appeared with two other actors. Variety of Japan also has an article.
The blog for Dirt Productions reports that principal photography for Nacho Mountain has been completed, although the final contest scene has yet to be filmed. A myspace comment says the final scene will be filmed on August 23. A LehighValleyLive.com article about the movie says that the filmmakers hope to release the movie on the internet in January and also play at independent film festivals.
“Nacho Mountain” set report
MCall.com has a report on the competitive eating comedy “Nacho Mountain”, which began filming in the Allentown, PA area on July 19. The main eating contest scene was filmed on Friday. Joey Chestnut, listed as a co-star of the movie on IMDB.com, is not mentioned in the article, but it does report that the final food battle scene will be recorded in August, so he might appear in that scene.
IMDB: Joey Chestnut to star in “Nacho Mountain”
The blog for Penn Live has an entry about the movie “Nacho Mountain”. Filming locations are currently being scouted in the Lehigh Valley. The film’s IMDB page lists Joey Chestnut, who will be performing as himself, as one of the stars. The release year is projected as 2009. Producer Dan Maher gives the following description of the plot:
He describes it as a quirky comedy about a fellow named Keefer who starts an underground food-eating competition. “When the town’s health-crazed mayor threatens to shut the tournament down, Keefer and his buddies fight to keep the contests going,” Maher explains.
A PG-13 rated teaser (probably NSFW) is available on youtube and a page for the movie has the following casting call:
NOW ACCEPTING HEADSHOTS AND PICTURES OF ANYBODY IN LEHIGH VALLEY WANTING TO PLAY EXTRAS, OR FILL CHARACTER ROLES! PLUS SIZES ARE GOOD, OBESE IS GREAT. ANy deformities (missing limbs, little people, etc.) are guaranteed screen time.
A craigslist posting has additional job information and says that principal photography will take place from July 21 to 27.
update The star of the movie, Jay Larson, has a page on ComedyCentral.com
A movie poster can be seen on the movie’s myspace page
Josh Heald’s (“AYCE” writer) next movie starts production
(From io9) The Hollywood Reporter has an article about the start of production on Hot Tub Time Machine. HTTM was written by Josh Heald, who also wrote the screenplay for All You Can Eat, a movie set in the world of competitive eating. Production of All You Can Eat appears to currently be on hiatus.
io9 notes similarities between Hot Tub Time Machine and a previous work:
Sadly, this won’t be the greatest time traveling tub movie of all time.
That honor belongs to College Humor’s series Clock Suckers, which is about a group of friends that link a Simon Says toy to a bath tub, which allows them to travel in time. It’s an animated short (with a lot of bad language), in which our heroes go back and mess with Al Capone, Elvis and other historical figures.
The rights to All You Can Eat are now controlled by Rogue Pictures, which made the ping pong comedy Balls of Fury and the direct to video American Pie sequels. The website for Rogue Pictures has not been updated since 2004.
Cinematic gluttony top 10
Electric Sheep Magazine has a list of the top 10 gluttonous scenes in movie history.
“Gourmet Fighter” movie in production
R Suzuki reports that a movie based on the “Gourmet Fighter” anime is in production. Natsuko “Gal” Sone and Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota are in the cast listing.
“All You Can Eat” screenwriter Josh Heald in LA Times
The LA Times has a section about Josh Heald, the author of “All You Can Eat,” a screenplay set in the world of competitive eating in its screenwriter column. The article describes Mr. Heald’s first hand experience in eating contests. The movie has yet to begin filming.
Unsurprisingly, the major challenge in moving “All You Can Eat” into production has been casting — it would take some very game comic actors who are willing to be seen stuffing food in their faces for two hours while potentially risking a disqualifying “reversal of fortune,” in the lingo of the sport.
Blogcritics reviews Taxidermia
Blogcritics.org has a review of the Hungarian film Taxidermia which is playing at the London Film Festival. The review summarizes the movie’s competitive eating scenes. It appears unlikely that IFOCE will give its seal of approval to this motion picture.
Competitive drinking movie opens today
While two competitive eating movie projects will not reach the theaters until at least 2007, “Beerfest”, a movie in which an American beer drinking team tries to win a German contest, opens today. gwinnettdailypost.com reports that one of the drinking team members is also a competitive eater.
NY Times: “All You Can Eat” movie to start production in fall
The New York Times’ article on upcoming food movies says that “All You Can Eat,” which will be written by Las Vegas Nathan’s qualifier entrant Josh Heald and produced by Craig Perry (“American Pie”), will begin production this fall.
Hungarian competitive eating movie screened at Cannes
Fans waiting for a competitive eating movie might not need to wait for the Josh Heald and Wing Bowl projects to hit the multiplexes. The Dallas Morning News reports that “Taxidermia”, a Hungarian movie directed by György Pálfi in which one of the protagonists is a competitive eater was screened at the Cannes Film Festival last Thursday. It appears unlikely that the IFOCE will endorse this movie based on this description at msn. Pictures and trailers for the movie (in French and Hungarian) are available.
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