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The Wiz (film)
The Wiz (1978) is Sidney Lumet's film adaptation of the 1975 Broadway musical, a Black-cast reimagining of The Wizard of Oz starring Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor, and Lena Horne; a costly box-office failure that became a cult classic.
The Wiz Live!
The Wiz Live! is NBC's December 3, 2015 live TV musical adaptation of the 1975 Broadway The Wiz, starring Shanice Williams, Queen Latifah, and Mary J. Blige; it drew 11.5 million viewers and won one Emmy for costumes.
The Wizard (1989 film)
The Wizard (1989) is a Universal Pictures family film directed by Todd Holland, starring Fred Savage, about boys traveling to a video game championship; it revealed Super Mario Bros. 3 to US audiences and was criticized as a Nintendo advertisement.
The Wizard of Id
The Wizard of Id is a syndicated American comic strip set in the medieval kingdom of Id, created in 1964 by writer Johnny Hart and artist Brant Parker, now drawn by Mason Mastroianni.
The Wizard of Lies
The Wizard of Lies is a 2017 HBO television film directed by Barry Levinson, starring Robert De Niro as Bernie Madoff and Michelle Pfeiffer as Ruth Madoff, adapted from Diana B. Henriques's 2011 book about Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme.
The Wizard of New Zealand
The Wizard of New Zealand, Ian Brackenbury Channell, is Christchurch's official wizard, appointed Wizard of Christchurch in 1982 and proclaimed Wizard of New Zealand by PM Mike Moore in 1990; his $16,000 council contract ended in 2021.
The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
The Wizard of Oz (1939) is MGM's Technicolor musical fantasy directed by Victor Fleming, starring Judy Garland as Dorothy. Budgeted at $2.8 million, it barely broke even in 1939, won two music Oscars, and became a classic through TV revivals from 1956.
The Wizard of Oz at Sphere
The Wizard of Oz at Sphere is an immersive 4D presentation of the 1939 film at Sphere in Las Vegas, opening August 2025 with AI-enhanced visuals.
The Wizard of the Emerald City (Волшебник Изумрудного города) (2024 film)
The Wizard of the Emerald City. The Yellow Brick Road (Волшебник Изумрудного города, 2024) is Igor Voloshin's Russian family fantasy adapted from Volkov's 1939 Oz reworking; released 1 January 2025, it grossed over 3 billion rubles and starts a planned trilogy.
The Wizard of the Kremlin (film)
The Wizard of the Kremlin (Le Mage du Kremlin) is Olivier Assayas's 2025 political thriller, adapted from Giuliano da Empoli's novel, starring Paul Dano as spin doctor Vadim Baranov and Jude Law as Putin; premiered at Venice 2025, released 2026.
The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex
The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex is a 2013 Disney Channel TV special sequel to Wizards of Waverly Place, directed by Victor Gonzalez, in which Selena Gomez's Alex Russo battles an evil doppelganger atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
The Wolf (2004 film)
The Wolf, original title El lobo, is a 2004 Spanish political thriller directed by Miguel Courtois, based on the true story of a secret agent who infiltrated ETA.
The Wolf (狼殿下) (TV series)
The Wolf (狼殿下) is a 49-episode 2020 Chinese costume romance drama starring Darren Wang, Li Qin and Xiao Zhan, released all at once on 19 November 2020 after three years in storage, set in fictional kingdoms loosely based on the Five Dynasties period, and later scored 6.2 on Douban.
The Wolf and the Lion
The Wolf and the Lion is the title of two unrelated works: a 2021 Canadian film about a girl who raises a wolf cub and lion cub, and a Game of Thrones episode.
The Wolf and the Lion (2021 film)
The Wolf and the Lion (Le loup et le lion) is a 2021 family adventure film directed by Gilles de Maistre, about a pianist raising a wolf and a lion in Canada.
The Wolf Man (1941 film)
The Wolf Man (1941) is Universal's classic werewolf horror film directed by George Waggner, written by Curt Siodmak, starring Lon Chaney Jr. as Larry Talbot, with Jack Pierce's makeup and the silver weakness it introduced to werewolf lore.
The Wolf of Snow Hollow
The Wolf of Snow Hollow is a 2020 horror-comedy written, directed by, and starring Jim Cummings as a Utah deputy investigating full-moon murders; Robert Forster's final film, released by Orion Classics.
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) is Martin Scorsese's biographical black comedy starring Leonardo DiCaprio as fraudster Jordan Belfort; Terence Winter adapted Belfort's memoir. It grossed $392 million worldwide and earned five Oscar nominations.
The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands
The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands is a 2026 drama-horror film by Nathalie Álvarez Mesén and Sjón, starring Alexander Skarsgård and Darla Contois as a governess in the 1860s Pacific Northwest; a Sweden-Belgium-UK-Iceland co-production released in 2026.
The Wolf's Call
The Wolf's Call (Le Chant du Loup) is a 2019 French submarine thriller, Antonin Baudry's first feature, starring François Civil, Omar Sy, Mathieu Kassovitz, and Reda Kateb aboard a French nuclear submarine; it won the César for Best Sound.
The Wolfe Tones
The Wolfe Tones are an Irish folk and rebel band formed in Dublin in 1963, named for Theobald Wolfe Tone; the trio of Brian Warfield, Noel Nagle, and Tommy Byrne is known for "A Nation Once Again" and "Celtic Symphony" and for farewell tours followed by a 2026 comeback.
The Wolfman
The Wolfman is a 2010 American gothic horror film directed by Joe Johnston, a remake of Universal's 1941 classic, starring Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, and Emily Blunt.
The Wolfpack
The Wolfpack is Crystal Moselle's 2015 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary about the six Angulo brothers, raised in isolation in a Lower East Side Manhattan apartment, who re-enacted roughly 5,000 Hollywood films with homemade props before breaking out.
The Wolverine (film)
The Wolverine (2013) is a James Mangold superhero film starring Hugh Jackman as Logan in Japan, set after X-Men: The Last Stand; it earned over $414 million worldwide, scored 70% on Rotten Tomatoes and 61 on Metacritic, and was originally to be directed by Darren Aronofsky.
The Woman (2011 film)
The Woman (2011) is an American horror film directed by Lucky McKee and co-written with Jack Ketchum from their novel, in which a lawyer captures a feral woman to civilize her; it premiered at Sundance 2011, caused walkouts, and won Sitges Best Screenplay.
The Woman and the Rose
The Woman and the Rose (المرأة والوردة) is a 1972 Arabic novel by the Moroccan writer Mohamed Zafzaf, published in Beirut, following a young Moroccan's emigration to Spain and a Danish woman.
The Woman Destroyed
The Woman Destroyed (La Femme rompue) is Simone de Beauvoir's 1967 Gallimard collection of three first-person stories about women in crisis, serialized in Elle, translated by Patrick O'Brian, a best-seller dismissed by critics.
The Woman in Black
The Woman in Black is a 1983 ghost story by the English novelist Susan Hill, about solicitor Arthur Kipps and a vengeful spectre at Eel Marsh House.
The Woman in Black (2012 film)
The Woman in Black (2012) is a British gothic horror film directed by James Watkins, written by Jane Goldman from Susan Hill's 1983 novel, produced by revived Hammer Films, starring Daniel Radcliffe as lawyer Arthur Kipps; released February 2012, rated 12A in the UK, with a 2014 sequel.
The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
The Woman in Black: Angel of Death, also known as The Woman in Black 2, is a 2014 British supernatural horror sequel directed by Tom Harper, released in 2015.