The producers of a horror film called Ssssss saw Benedict's performance in Hawaii Five-O and promptly cast him as the lead in that movie.

* Rainbow Bridge ( film ) Maui, Hawaii, 1970

Square Pictures, located in Honolulu, Hawaii, was a computer-animated film division of Square.

Roger Ebert founded his own film festival, Ebertfest, in his home town of Champaign, Illinois and is also a regular fixture at the Hawaii International Film Festival.

In 1968, he had a major role in the pilot film for the popular police series Hawaii Five-O, and later appeared in one of the seventh season episodes.

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy as Christina and Matt Drayton. The film tells the story of Joanna " Joey " Drayton ( Katharine Houghton ), a young white woman who has had a whirlwind romance with Dr. John Prentice ( Sidney Poitier ), a young, idealistic black physician she met while in Hawaii.

His children appeared with him in the film Hawaii, playing his son at different ages.

In order to recreate the atmosphere of pre-war Pearl Harbor, the producers had the advantage of staging the film in Hawaii and using the current Naval facilities.

The Mai Tai was also prominently featured in the popular Elvis Presley film Blue Hawaii.

In the winter of 1958, Brown went back to Hawaii to film the North Shore's big surf.

The film made its U. S. premiere at the Hawaii International Film Festival.

She earned money in the 1966 film Hawaii as an extra, playing an uncredited seasick passenger named Miss David Buff.

In the summer of 1965, Midler relocated to New York City, using the money from her work in the film Hawaii.

Miller and Swope then turned their attention to their side project, the quieter Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic ( co-founded with their old friend Erik Lindgren, who had played with Miller and Conley in Moving Parts ), which they both left in the 1990s, Miller to produce several solo efforts and film scores, and Swope to semi-reclusion in Hawaii.

After going to the cinema and being inspired by the film Ordinary People, Chapman returned to Hawaii, telling his wife he had been obsessed with killing Lennon but had snapped out of it.

The agreement required the production to change its name from Baywatch to Baywatch Hawaii, hire local leads, and film in the state for at least two years, guaranteeing 44 episodes, each at a cost of about $ 870, 000, 60 percent of which was to be spent in Hawaii.

Blue Crush was the first film to use Hawaii ’ s Act 221, a progressive local tax incentive that called for a 100 percent state tax credit for high-tech investments meeting the requirements for qualified high-tech business, while also allowing local investors to receive tax credits for investments in film or television productions.

The agreement also involved marketing rights for the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau whereby the studio would cross-promote the film and the State of Hawaii.

* Ride the Wild Surf, a 1964 film about three men visiting Hawaii to surf

Produced by Travelfilm Company and adapted by Carra, the film won numerous awards, including Best Documentary at the Hawaii International Film Festival ( 1991 ) and the Earthwatch Film Award.

James Michener's Hawaii ( novel ) and Hawaii ( film ) portray the historical acts of Lorrin A. Thurston ( 1875 ), Sanford Dole, Hiram Bingham I, Henry Baldwin ( 1891 ), and Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole ( 1889 ) in the transition from monarchy to US territory.

In 1970, Jardine Fleming, the first merchant bank in Asia, opened for business while a real estate company and sugar plantations in Hawaii and the Philippines were acquired.

Starfish Prime also made those effects known to the public by causing electrical damage in Hawaii, about away from the detonation point, knocking out about 300 streetlights, setting off numerous burglar alarms and damaging a telephone company microwave link.

The company bought into small cable systems in Akron, Ohio, Hawaii, and another location, worthwhile investments, according to Cooney.

The company constructed settlements in what is today Alaska, Hawaii, and California.

* 1928 – Texaco becomes the first U. S. oil company to sell its gasoline nationwide under one single brand name in all 48 states ( 50 states after Alaska and Hawaii joined the Union in 1959 ).

In November 1922, Groves received his first overseas posting, as a company commander with the 3rd Engineers at the Schofield Barracks in Hawaii.

Over 20 years, their company, Sea God Nurseries, had nurseries in Fiji, Hawaii, the Azores, and California, and was responsible for adding more than 1, 500 new orchids to the worldwide catalog.

Hanapepe is the headquarters location for the ice cream company Lappert's Hawaii, as well as home to the western-most bookstore in the United States, Talk Story Bookstore.

A letter published in The Midnight Cry of October 12, 1843, from a Mrs O. S. Burnham of Kaloa, The Sandwich Islands, ( now Hawaii ) stated that she and her husband had accepted the Millerite message and were worshipping with a small company of believers.

The owners of the shipping company that had employed Slocum were so impressed by this feat of ingenuity and leadership, they gave him the command of the Constitution which he sailed to Hawaii and the west coast of Mexico.

The route the company planned to serve ( California to Hawaii ) has high traffic volume but at the time few deeply discounted fares from competitors, and Thompson sustains that the market was overpriced at and potentially " a very profitable charter route with the opportunity to sell high-margin vacation packages in the future.

Reeves established his own production company and conceived a TV adventure series, Port of Entry, which would be shot on location in Hawaii and Mexico, writing the pilot script himself.

In late 1986, Ching and vice-chairman Sheridan Ing announced plans to take the company private, and it remained in the hands of the Ing and Ching families until its emergence from bankruptcy in 2006, when additional investors including The Yucaipa Cos., Aloha Aviation Investment Group, and Aloha Hawaii Investors LLC took stakes in the airline.

As a part of the series of bootstrap restructuring efforts to avoid filing for IRCJ ( Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan ) support, the company sold its famous and popular baseball team, the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks to Softbank, on January 27, 2005 and the company's Hawaii stores in 2006 to Donki.

The first was when the FBI was tipped off about the groups of briefcase-carrying young men making repeated trips to Hawaii, and when they investigated and found nothing amiss, several agents became regular couriers for the company.

Rogers moved from Japan to Hawaii, where he founded Blue Planet Software and The Tetris Company, a Delaware company that exclusively licenses the Tetris trademark.

The couple sailed to Hawaii ( then known as the ' Sandwich Islands ') that same year, on the ship Parthian, the third company from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

In 1987, a third company of Tune the Grand Up performed at the Kahilu Theatre in Kamuela ( Waimea ), Hawaii.

In 1984, he was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division ( Light ), Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, where he served as a platoon leader, aviation company operations officer, and an assault helicopter battalion operations officer.

June 1, 1962: The Star-Bulletin and its morning rival, the Honolulu Advertiser, set up a third company, the Hawaii Newspaper Agency, under a joint operating agreement to handle non-newsroom functions of both papers.

Through his resort management company, Rockresorts, Inc., Rockefeller opened environmentally focused hotels at Caneel Bay on Saint John, United States Virgin Islands ( 1956 ) ( a favorite resort today for celebrities ), some property of which was later turned over to the Virgin Islands National Park ; in Puerto Rico, the British Virgin Islands, and Hawaii, contributing to the movement now known as eco-tourism.

Matson is still the dominant cargo transportation company in Hawaii.

The company also owns Del's Feed and Farm Supply, a farm retail chain in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii.

The purchase was completed on May 11, 2004, and the company was renamed Hawaii Island Air, Inc., although the airline continued to do business as " Island Air.