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Wish I Was Here
Wish I Was Here is a 2014 American comedy-drama film directed by Zach Braff, who stars as a struggling actor homeschooling his children, funded by a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign.
Wish List (song)
Wi$h Li$t is a 2025 pop song by Taylor Swift, track eight on The Life of a Showgirl, co-written with Max Martin and Shellback, contrasting others' luxury ambitions with her wish for love, family, and privacy; it peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Wish Music Awards
The Wish Music Awards, also known as the Wish 107.5 Music Awards, is an annual Philippine awards show presented by Wish 107.5 that honors upcoming and promising artists.
Wish Upon
Wish Upon is a 2017 American supernatural horror film directed by John R. Leonetti, starring Joey King and Ryan Phillippe, about a music box granting seven deadly wishes; it grossed $14.3 million and scored 20% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Wish Upon a Star
Wish Upon a Star is a 1996 Disney Channel body-swap TV movie directed by Blair Treu, starring Katherine Heigl and Danielle Harris as sisters who trade bodies after wishing on a shooting star; distinct from a 1983 Disney Channel series of the same name.
Wish Upon the Pleiades (放課後のプレアデス)
Wish Upon the Pleiades (放課後のプレアデス, Hōkago no Pleiades) is a Subaru×Gainax magical girl anime: a 2011 four-part YouTube ONA expanded into a 12-episode 2015 TV series about five girls collecting spaceship engine fragments.
Wish World
Wish World is Doctor Who Season 2 episode 7 (24 May 2025), written by Russell T Davies, directed by Alex Sanjiv Pillai. The Rani and Mrs Flood use the baby Desiderium and Conrad Clark to reshape reality; first half of the finale with The Reality War.
Wish You Were Here (2025 film)
Wish You Were Here (2025) is a romantic drama and Julia Stiles's directorial debut, adapted from Renée Carlino's 2017 novel, starring Isabelle Fuhrman and Mena Massoud; Lionsgate released it January 17, 2025.
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album)
Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd's ninth studio album (September 12, 1975, Harvest Records), a concept album on absence and the music industry centered on Syd Barrett, featuring Shine On You Crazy Diamond; later ranked among rock's greatest albums.
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd song)
"Wish You Were Here" is the title track of Pink Floyd's 1975 album Wish You Were Here, written by Roger Waters and David Gilmour, sung by Gilmour. Written partly about Syd Barrett and absence, it opens with a car-radio effect and acoustic guitar and was played at Live 8 in 2005.
Wish You Were Here 50
Wish You Were Here 50 is Pink Floyd's December 12, 2025 50th anniversary box set reissue of Wish You Were Here, adding six unreleased outtakes, a James Guthrie Dolby Atmos mix, and the first official release of Mike Millard's 1975 Los Angeles Sports Arena concert recording.
Wishbone (album)
Wishbone is the title of several albums, most notably Conan Gray's 2025 fourth studio album on Republic Records (12 tracks, Metascore 82) and Jackie Mittoo's 1971 soul-funk album reissued by Light in the Attic; also used by Oh Land, Eleni Mandell, and Clara Mann.
Wishbone (TV series)
Wishbone (1995–1998) is a PBS live-action children's series in which a Jack Russell terrier, played by Soccer and voiced by Larry Brantley, daydreams himself into classic literature; created by Rick Duffield, it won a Peabody Award and Daytime Emmys.
Wishbone Ash
Wishbone Ash is a British rock band formed in 1969, known for pioneering twin lead guitars in rock and for Argus, its multi-million-selling 1972 album.
Wishful Thinking (2026 film)
Wishful Thinking is a 2026 American surrealist romantic comedy directed by Graham Parkes in his debut, starring Lewis Pullman and Maya Hawke as a Portland couple.
Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars (向流星许愿的我们)
Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars (向流星许愿的我们) is a 2026 Taiwanese fantasy BL series adapted from Chung Min-jui's story, directed by Chiang Jui-chih, 12 episodes on LINE TV about a man whose wish to disappear gives him a forgotten new identity.
Wishmaster (film)
Wishmaster (1997) is an American supernatural horror film directed by Robert Kurtzman, written by Peter Atkins, starring Tammy Lauren and Andrew Divoff as an evil djinn freed from a fire opal; it grossed $15.7 million and spawned three direct-to-video sequels.
Wishmountain
Wishmountain is the experimental-techno alias of British electronic musician Matthew Herbert, whose tracks are built from eight sounds sampled from a single object, debuting in 1996.
Wishy
Wishy is an Indianapolis indie rock band led by Kevin Krauter and Nina Pitchkites, blending shoegaze, dream pop, and power pop; albums Triple Seven (2024) and Nature's Pill (2026) on Winspear.
Wisin
Wisin, born Juan Luis Morera Luna in 1978 in Cayey, Puerto Rico, is a reggaeton singer and producer best known as one half of Wisin & Yandel.
Wisin & Yandel
Wisin & Yandel (Wisin y Yandel, El Dúo de la Historia) were a Puerto Rican reggaeton duo formed in 1998 in Cayey by Juan Luis Morera Luna and Llandel Veguilla Malavé. Known for Pa'l Mundo, Los Extraterrestres (GRAMMY 2009), and the 2022 farewell album La Última Misión.
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012), Polish poet and essayist, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature for ironic, precise poetry; about 350 poems, Kraków-based, fifth Polish Nobel laureate in literature.
Wisp (musician)
Wisp is the stage name of Natalie Lu (born 2004), a San Francisco-born shoegaze musician also called nu-gaze, whose 2023 TikTok-viral debut single "Your Face" led to Interscope, the 2024 Pandora EP, and the 2025 debut album If Not Winter.
Wisteria Lane
Wisteria Lane, also known as Colonial Street at Universal Studios Hollywood, is the fictional Fairview cul-de-sac setting of Desperate Housewives (2004-2012), designed by Thomas A. Walsh and later officially renamed.
Wisting (TV series)
Wisting is a Norwegian crime drama based on Jørn Lier Horst's novels, starring Sven Nordin as Larvik detective William Wisting. Premiered on Viaplay 11 April 2019, ran five seasons to 2025, sold to BBC Four, Carrie-Anne Moss joined season one.
Wistoria: Wand and Sword
Wistoria: Wand and Sword (杖と剣のウィストリア) is a Kodansha manga by Fujino Ōmori and Toshi Aoi, serialized since December 2020 about magic-less swordsman Will Serfort; adapted into an anime by Actas and Bandai Namco Pictures since 2024, with Season 3 announced in 2026.
Wit
Wit, styled W;t on the playbill, is a one-act play by Margaret Edson about a poetry professor with ovarian cancer that won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Witch (In This Moment album)
Witch is the ninth studio album by American metal band In This Moment, released August 28, 2026 on Better Noise Music, their first for the label and follow-up to Godmode. 11 tracks, 49 minutes, guests Dayseeker, Kim Dracula, Kat Von D; covers Pink Floyd and Nine Inch Nails.
Witch and Hound
Witch and Hound (魔女と猟犬, Majo to Ryōken) is a Shogakukan Gagaga Bunko dark fantasy light novel by Rainy Kamitsuki with LAM illustrations, about assassin Rollo, the Black Dog, gathering seven witches against magic-monopolizing Amelia; adapted into a 4-volume Minori Tsukahara manga and a 2026 TriF Studio TV anime.
Witch and Mercenary
Witch and Mercenary (魔女と傭兵, Majō to Yōhei) is a Japanese dark fantasy light novel by Chohokiteki Kaeru, begun on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2021, printed by GCN Bunko from 2023, with a Magazine Pocket manga and a TV anime airing from April 2027 on Nippon TV.