(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.

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BTrauman has uploaded videos of today’s pickle eating contest at the Carnegie Deli in its entirety. The results from that event:

1. Arnie Chapman
2. Mike Hoffman
3. Richard Leavy
4. Jill Stoler

update NY1 has a brief article about the contest

update #2 Jill Stoler has a blog entry about the contest. Jill emailed the original results and a picture of the scoresheet which can be viewed after the jump:
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• Gallery of Saturday’s contests in Brunswick, GA from Bruce Pobanz
• Sonya Thomas thinks the new 10 minute duration will make it difficult for her to become the first woman to break 40 HDB
• Don Lerman believes “food pervision” companies have stolen his “interlectial propery”
• Article about local competitors at Chicago Nathan’s qualifier
• Preview of the Pittsburgh Nathan’s qualifier. Brian Subich is the only listed expected entrant
• Milia Mahfoud, the only female entrant, won a pancake eating contest at the Kingsburg Swedish Heritage Festival.
• Humble Bob has some pictures of the gyro contest on his home page
• Skinnyboy had a drunk fan while he attempted a hot dog challenge
• Article about Crazy Legs Conti in the Monterey Herald
• Calendar lists New Orleans Nathan’s qualifier on June 4 (a Wednesday) at Metairie
• Jamie of Hungry Sisters will be an assistant for Hog Happenin in Lincolnton, NC, which will have some eating contests
• $175 burger containing gold flakes
• Video of pizza eating contest from G.L.O.W. wrestling between Matilda the Hun and Mount Fiji

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(From R Suzuki) Gal Sone recently appeared on a television program in which she sampled and ranked curries from each of the 47 prefectures of Japan. The curry from Okinawa contained spam and failed to make the top five.

Like the curry Gal Sone chose on her previous appearance on the ranking show, the winning curry, from Toyama, was in short supply after Gal Sone selected it as her favorite.

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(From consumerist) Brand Republic announces that Burger Kings in some European countries will start selling the “6 pack” burger, which can be separated into Krystal sized burgers. Each set of two burgers will have a different topping. The burger is expected to sell for £4.49, about $9.

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The blog for the Village Voice has an entry about this afternoon’s watermelon eating contest at Rockefeller Center between Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti. Conti won the six minute contest by one bite. After the first contest completed, Conti and Janus had a virtual watermelon eating contest by playing the Major League Eating video game. The blog entry closes with an announcement that an article about Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti will appear in the Village Voice this summer.

IFOCE.com also has a report about the event.

update AppScout has a blog entry about the event with pictures and videos, including a recording of the performances of Beautiful Brian and Badlands Booker.

update #2 Serious Eats has a gallery and MTV has a blog entry.

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Crazy Legs Conti was interviewed by Midtown Lunch to promote his midtown lunch today at a watermelon eating contest at Rockefeller center:

Place you discovered thanks to Midtown Lunch: Back to sushi – I relied on Midtown Lunch to give me the rundown on how fast the conveyer belt moved at Sakae Sushi (not fast enough for me) and the crowd at the Todai buffet. Regarding Todai, pickle eating champ Beautiful Brian Seiken is planning an outing to Todai’s plentiful buffet. You need a sizable guy like Beautiful Brian to anchor himself front and center at the sushi bar, then other NYC gurgiators like Nasty Nate Biller and me can form a wedge and really get behind the sneeze guard to take the buffet down. If the head chef isn’t crying into the steam table in an hour, we haven’t done justice to Midtown Lunch!

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Given last year’s qualifier results, the 2007 Nathan’s finals would have had the following field if the eaters with the top 16 results made the finals regardless of their placement in a qualifier:

2007 Jun 2	1st	59.5	Joey “Jaws” Chestnut	Tempe, AZ
2007 May 3	1st	46	Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti	Las Vegas, NV
2007 May 19	1st	41.5	Tim “Eater X” Janus	East Hartford, CT
2007 Mar 24	1st	39.5	Chip “The Phenom” Simpson	Sunrise, FL
2007 May 26	1st	36	Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas	Philadelphia, PA
2007 Jun 23	1st	34	Rich “The Locust” LeFevre	San Francisco, CA
2007 May 26	2nd	33	“Humble” Bob Shoudt	Philadelphia, PA
2007 Jun 9	1st	28.75	Hall “Hoover” Hunt	Charlotte, NC
2007 Jun 9	2nd	28	Juliet Lee	Charlotte, NC
2007 Jun 27	1st	27.5	“The Natural” Arturo Rios, Jr.	Manhattan, NY
2007 Jun 22	1st	27	Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin	Cranbury, NJ
2007 May 26	3rd	27	“Big” Brian Subich	Philadelphia, PA
2007 Jun 28	2nd	26.5	Brad “The Lunatic” Sciullo	West Chester, PA
2007 Jun 3	1st	26.5	Erik “The Red” Denmark	Queens, NY
2007 Jun 27	2nd	26	Allen “Shredder” Goldstein	Manhattan, NY
2007 Jun 2	3rd	25	Tim “Gravy” Brown	Tempe, AZ

Brad Sciullo and Brian Subich would have replaced Crazy Legs Conti and Dale Boone.

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The blog for Philly Burbs has a preview of Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier that will be held at the Independence Hall Visitors Center. “Humble” Bob Shoudt, Russ Keeler, Pete Miernicki are listed as expected competitors along with the husband and wife team of Olivia and Reginald Pascual. If Sonya Thomas does not compete, it would break a two year winning streak at the Philadelphia Nathan’s qualifier.

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The contest reports from May 17 (see below) have been updated with a slideshow of the Houston gyro contest, a gallery of the Chicago Nathan’s qualifier from Val Bromann and the longer Journal Inquirer writeup of the Hartford qualifier.

A blog entry from Pat Bertoletti has been added to the Minnesota qualifier post.

(Comments are closed for this post, use the original contest threads for comments)

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Nintendo has put out a press release about the WiiWare games that will be released today. The Major League Eating game is not included in that document.

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• Article about Portland mayoral race with coverage of doughnut contest for candidates
• Gothamist preview of Tuesdays promotional watermelon eating contest at Rockefeller Center
• Steakbellie on qualifying for Nathan’s
• Reporter attempts to set personal wing eating record during morning newscast
• Cheeseburger eating contest to be held at Jimmy Buffet night at Newark Bears game May 23.
• Cameron McKirdy uploads 3 new videos
• Jill Stoler gets into Wednesday’s pickle contest at the Carnegie Deli
• Gal Sone gets a haircut and a new hair color

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A Creative Loafing blog entry from February 2007 has a picture of Dale Boone at a pizza eating contest with the following caption:

On Saturday, Atlanta’s best competitive eater, Dale Boone, won a pizza-eating contest at Nancy’s Pizza in Buckhead. Boone tried to conceal his identity with a mask and pseudonym, an effort that might have succeeded had he: a) kept his mask on, and b) not answered to Dale.

Dale Boone’s picture shares the page with a picture of a group called FTP, which does not stand for File Transfer Protocol.

There are also pictures of Dale Boone in this gallery of the dumpling contest held at the 2007 Dragon Boat Festival in Queens.

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Here are the top Nathan’s debuts according to the eatfeats database:

A list of all initial values of 20 HDB or more follows after the jump. (Some of the initial values are probably not actual debuts due to missing results)
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NokiaUsers.net has a blog entry with an embedded commercial starring “Lisa Kissick”, a competitive eating fan who uses the Nokia N95 8GB to download competitive eating videos and receive instant contest results. One of the videos she downloads is a butter eating record, which is listed as seven sticks in 4 minutes.

update Don Lerman has posted his response to the video on mosesnews.com:

Nokia has put an add on the market that is a slap in the face to great Moses Lerman it belittles his title and discounts the truth and if you check the glutton bowl tape it is actually 71/2 sticks in 5 min

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Results from today’s gyro contest in Houston from IFOCE.com

1. Pat Bertoletti, 12 gyros in 10 minutes, $2000
2. Joey Chestnut, 11 gyros, $1000
3. “Humble” Bob Shoudt 9.5 gyros, $700
4. Nathan Biller 6 gyros, $300

This ends Joey Chestnut’s winning streak at 6 contests (in which he defeated Pat Bertoletti 5 times)

update HoustonPress has a slideshow of the contest (from Liz)

update #2 The Blot Says has a contest report with some pictures

A youtube video is also available.

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East Hartford results from IFOCE.com

1. Arturo Rios, 22.75 HDB
2. Russ Keeler 19.5
3. Pete Davekos 16.5

update JournalInquirer.com has a brief article and will have a longer writeup on Monday.

update #2 jcrue11 of bodybuilding.com claims he was the actual runner-up and that Russ Keeler was disqualified.

update #3 Journal Inquirer has the longer article out now. Mike Springer was the fourth place finisher.

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results from Sage & Gravy comments

1. Pat Vandam 31
2. Tim “Gravy” Brown 28
3. Mike Fitzgerald 23.5

update The Southtown Star has a contest report. Tim Brown’s next qualifying attempts will take place in Tempe, AZ and Plano, TX.

update #2 Val Bromann has a gallery from the contest and IFOCE.com has the contest report out now.

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Erik Denmark has a blog entry about his appearance on the Groz & Gas radio show today, which is available online. Erik talks about the Major League Eating video game and his compensation for it. Like Pat Bertoletti, he is not clear about the terms of the royalty agreement. He will attempt to qualify for Nathan’s in Kansas City, but makes no mention of tomorrow’s gyro contest in Houston.

There is also a press release for the MLE video game with descriptions of four of the game’s characters.

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The East Hartford Gazette has a preview of tomorrow’s Nathan’s qualifier. The listed expected entrants are Arturo Rios, Russ Keeler, Pete Davekos and “Hungry” Heather Breslin.

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Pat Bertoletti appeared on the Steve Dahl show today. One of the subjects was the upcoming Major League Eating video game and the compensation received:

6:23 Sometime during this week there’s going to be a Nintendo Wii competitive eating game. There’s new software for he Wii where you can download games, including the competitive eating game. It’ll feature Patrick, Joey Chestnut, The Black Widow, Kobayashi and 6 or 7 other eaters.
6:24 Patrick’s character looks freaky because they went with his mohawk and mustache look. All of the eaters got some money and were told there’d be royalties depending on games sold.
6:25 It sounds like it’s about time for Patrick to get representation. He doesn’t like the way he looks in the game and now he’s probably not getting as much money as he should be getting. He should have gotten money up front against the royalties.
6:26 Every eater got $500 up front but there were no specifics about the royalties. It sounds like he got ripped off.
6:27 Patrick signed a contract with the IFOCE and they own his image. That contract is up next year. We might have to go in and Urlacher it.

The press release for the Houston gyro contest lists Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Bob Shoudt and Erik Denmark as expected entrants.

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• AOL FanHouse responds to Canadian Catholic newspaper’s criticism of the eating contest held on Mike & Mike in the Morning (The first competitive eating post on FanHouse since Sonya Thomas oversaw a contest at a Washington Capitals game)
• Hall Hoover begins selling T shirts
• May 24 Pittsburgh Nathan’s qualifier to take place at Greensburg Sam’s Club
• Something for the 2005 commenter who wanted more posts about female Hollywood celebrities
• Pittsburgh area hot wing contest today (from “Bubba”)
• All you can eat seats at Minnesota Twins games Monday and Tuesday
• 68 year old German man, Heinz Asthoff, eats up to 12,000 calories a day without gaining weight (translated German article)
• Video of Takuya Yamamoto and Tomoko Miyake attempting eating challenges

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Kobayashi’s latest blog entry reports that he is currently in Vancouver, British Columbia, apparently to film a commercial for an undisclosed product. Like Kobayashi’s hometown of Nagano, Vancouver is a Winter Olympics site.

In news of other Kobayashis, a Bleacher Report blog entry calls Cleveland Indians reliever Masahide Kobayashi possibly “the steal of the off season”

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(From anon comment) An announcement on majorleagueeating.com states that there will be no wild card entrants into the upcoming Nathan’s finals.

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Next-Gen.biz has a joint interview with developers of WiiWare games in which Bill Swartz, head of the company that developed the Major League Eating game, participates. He says that while future MLE games might appear on different platforms, they will not be ports of the upcoming game:

Swartz: Well, this game is for WiiWare, that is what it was developed for. In the future would I be open to doing other games using the characters and the settings and the universe? Yeah, of course. I really, really believe in Major League Eating and the franchise, but would I take this particular game and just move it over? No. This game is for WiiWare.

Swartz also says that the development team began work in September and that twelve employees formed its core.

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