Netflix hits 40 million users for ad-supported plan
The jump comes at a time when streaming companies are facing stiff competition and introducing bundles with their rivals to retain subscribers. Read more
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Switzerland wins Eurovision Song Contest 2024
Billed as a feel-good celebration of European diversity, this year’s contest has been thrust into the political spotlight with calls for Israel to be excluded. Read more
Helm, Na‘auao, Ekolu and Waipuna lead Hoku Awards finalists
Four veterans of the Hawaii music industry — Raiatea Helm, Sean Na‘auao and the groups Ekolu and Waipuna — are front- runners with nominations in major categories as the Hawai‘i Academy of Recording Arts announces finalists for the 47th annual Na Hoku Hanohano Awards. Read more
Kapena 40th-anniversary tickets on sale
Tickets go on sale today for the Original Kapena 40th Anniversary Celebration — a reunion of Kapena founding members Kelly “Kelly Boy” De Lima, Tivaini “Tiva” Tatofi and Teimomi “Timo” Tatofi — Aug. 31 at the Tom Moffatt Waikiki Shell. Read more
View the list of 2024 Na Hoku Hanohano Award finalists
View the complete list of finalists for the 47th Annual Na Hoku Hanohano Awards. Read more
Travis Kelce cast in Ryan Murphy’s FX horror, ‘Grotesquerie’
The Kansas City Chiefs tight end, 34, will act alongside Niecy Nash-Betts, Courtney B. Vance and Lesley Manville in the FX horror show. Deadline was the first to report the casting. Read more
Miss Hawaii USA offered Miss USA title after 2023 winner resigns
The first runner-up at Miss USA 2023 was Savannah Gankiewicz, Miss Hawaii USA. The three other runners-up were from Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Texas. Read more
Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets’ posts a huge 2nd week on the chart
In its second week of release, Taylor Swift’s latest blockbuster album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” holds at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart, nearly doubling the rest of the Top 5 combined. Read more
‘The Fall Guy’ fizzles with $28.5M in ticket sales
The Fall Guy” cost Universal at least $200 million to make and market and was released in 4,002 theaters in the United States and Canada. It collected an additional $37 million overseas. Read more
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‘Major shift’ may have affected renewal of ‘NCIS: Hawai‘i’
As television fans were counting down the days to the official announcement of CBS Entertainment’s fall 2024 season, a fourth season for “NCIS: Hawai‘i” seemed like a slam dunk. Read more
Taylor Swift, Drake, Gaga return to TikTok with new pact
TikTok began removing Universal’s content from its app after their licensing deal expired in January and the two sides failed to reach agreement on royalties, AI and online safety for TikTok’s users. Read more
Ryan Reynolds, Dwayne Johnson reportedly had ‘huge fight’ on set
With the chatter spreading on Tuesday, a representative for Amazon MGM Studios released a statement vouching for Johnson and his production company, Seven Bucks, which produced both “Red Notice” and the upcoming film “Red One.” Read more
Weinstein faces retrial in New York after conviction overturned
Weinstein, 72, had been serving a 23-year sentence in a prison in upstate Rome, New York. Read more
Stagecoach, Coachella fans abandon tons of camping gear, clothes
Charitable organizations turn the discarded clutter — more than 24 tons of it strewn throughout the 642-acre property — into a benefit for the local needy. Read more
Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets’ breaks records with blockbuster debut
“The Tortured Poets Department,” Swift’s 11th studio album, opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart with historic numbers, including huge results in streaming and vinyl sales. Read more
Documentary reveals bizarre 1990s Japanese reality show
The comedian nicknamed Nasubi is forced to survive on whatever he can redeem from mail-in coupons, as he is denied contact with the outside world. Read more
CBS cancels ‘NCIS: Hawai‘i’ after 3 seasons
The series finale is set to air May 6. Read more
Appeals court rejects R. Kelly’s challenge of 20-year sentence
Jurors in 2022 convicted the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer on three charges of producing child sexual abuse images and three charges of enticement of minors for sex. Read more
Royal Hawaiian Hotel to host Ballet Hawaii fundraiser
The festivities start at 5:30 p.m. with cocktails on the Ocean Lawn followed by dinner at 7 p.m. Read more
Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction overturned
Weinstein, 72, will remain imprisoned because he was convicted in Los Angeles in 2022 of another rape. Read more
A portrait by Gustav Klimt is sold for $32M at a Vienna auction
The Austrian modernist artist started work on the “Portrait of Fräulein Lieser” in 1917, the year before he died, and it is one of his last works. Read more
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