In Star Trek (2009), after the USS Kelvin is overpowered and nearly destroyed by the mysterious black ship, Ayel hails them, calmly beginning the message with, "Hello.".
At the end of the film the word 'hello' is incorporated into their signal to the outside world, spelled out on the grass on an idyllic Ghibli Hill, and (implicitly) is what caught the notice of their rescuers. It became his catchphrase as this situation became more apparent and his naiveté began to evaporate, fast.
In 28 Days Later Jim wandered through the deserted London shouting hello and would say it whenever he entered a building, searching for survivors.
That and calling on the radio, but the ones they have are in poor condition and don't have the range. Seems to be their whole search method for survivors.
In Day of the Dead, the group regularly fly out on a helicopter, set down and shout HELLO through a megaphone.
Speaking of Rob Reiner: "HELLOOOOO, CLEVELAND!".
The standard Spanish greeting, "Hola" (which comes from French via Old German, so it shares an origin with the English word "Hello") is also used to express surprise or disbelief (usually with a tinge of exasperation) when formulated as a question ("¿Hola?") and, finally, in the United Kingdom "hello" is still used to express surprise (often in a variation on the phrasing "ooh, hello") alongside being a (progressively more formal) greeting. Interestingly, the German "Hallo" is still also used to express surprise or disbelief, but it's probably more likely in Austria than in Germany. However, lots of countries do include some variant of "Hello" or "Allo" even if only for answering the phone. In Japan, they say "Konnichiwa" or (on the phone) "Moshi moshi" (which has an incredibly similar quirky origin story). In French, "Bonjour" note Formal greeting, "Salut" note Friendly/familiar greeting & "Allo" note Phone greeting. Burns would approve.) From there it went on to become the catch-all greeting it is today. (This would have been the rather nautical "Ahoy-hoy!" if Graham Bell had his way. note Hello, or rather "Hallu" from the hunting fields, was also the first recorded word, shouted by Edison to test Bell's prototype. The modern use and spelling was "invented" by Thomas Edison the first use of it with modern spelling was as a greeting in a letter from him to Alexander Graham Bell in 1887. Fun fact: "Hello" (or "hullo") used to be an expression of surprise or questioning (as in "Hullo, what's this?") until around the turn of the 20th century when it became the standard expression for answering the telephone.
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