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The Weekenders

The Weekenders is a Disney Television Animation series created by Doug Langdale, premiering February 26, 2000 on ABC's One Saturday Morning. It follows four seventh graders, Tino, Lor, Carver, and Tish, through 39 weekend-set episodes in Bahia Bay, California.

The Weight (2026 film)

The Weight is a 2026 action-adventure crime film directed by Padraic McKinley in his feature debut, starring Ethan Hawke as a 1930s convict who smuggles stolen gold through the Oregon wilderness for his freedom.

The Weinstein Company

The Weinstein Company (TWC), independent film and TV studio launched October 2005 by Bob and Harvey Weinstein after leaving Disney's Miramax; produced The King's Speech and Silver Linings Playbook; filed Chapter 11 in March 2018 and sold its library to Lantern Entertainment/Spyglass for $287 million.

The Well (2023 film)

The Well (2023) is an Italian horror film by Federico Zampaglione, starring Lauren LaVera as art restorer Lisa Gray, who restores a medieval painting in an Italian village and faces a curse and a well-dwelling monster; premiered at Sitges 2023.

The Well (Doctor Who)

The Well (2025), Doctor Who season 2 episode 3 by Russell T Davies and Sharma Angel-Walfall: the Fifteenth Doctor and Belinda visit planet Midnight 400,000 years later, where deaf survivor Aliss Fenly hosts the unseen Midnight Entity.

The Wendy Williams Show

The Wendy Williams Show, a Debmar-Mercury syndicated daytime talk show hosted by Wendy Williams, previewed on Fox stations in 2008, ran nationally from July 13, 2009, and ended June 17, 2022.

The West Coast Hustle

The West Coast Hustle is an MTV reality docuseries (2024) starring Chanel West Coast and Dom Fenison, following motherhood, music, and business after her Ridiculousness exit; 8 episodes, canceled after one season.

The West Wing

The West Wing is Aaron Sorkin's NBC political drama (1999–2006, seven seasons, 155 episodes) about fictional Democratic President Josiah Bartlet (Martin Sheen) and his White House staff, winner of 27 Emmys and widely used as a civics teaching tool.

The Westerner

The Westerner (1940) is a William Wyler Western starring Gary Cooper as Cole Harden and Walter Brennan as Judge Roy Bean; Brennan won his third Best Supporting Actor Oscar for it.

The Westies (TV series)

The Westies is a 2026 MGM+ crime drama created by Chris Brancato and Michael Panes about the Irish-American Westies gang in 1980s Hell's Kitchen, starring J.K. Simmons as Eamon Sweeney, premiering July 12, 2026.

The Whale (2022 film)

The Whale is a 2022 A24 drama directed by Darren Aronofsky, adapted by Samuel D. Hunter from his 2012 play, starring Brendan Fraser as Charlie, a 600-pound reclusive English teacher reconnecting with his estranged daughter; it won Oscars for Best Actor and Makeup despite fatphobia criticism.

The Whales of August

The Whales of August (1987) is a Lindsay Anderson drama adapted from David Berry's play, starring Bette Davis and Lillian Gish as elderly widowed sisters in Maine, with Vincent Price and Ann Sothern; Gish's and Sothern's final film.

The Wheel of Time (TV series)

The Wheel of Time (TV series): Prime Video fantasy adaptation of Robert Jordan's 14 novels, developed by Rafe Judkins with Sony Pictures Television, starring Rosamund Pike; three 8-episode seasons 2021-2025, canceled May 2025.

The Whirlwind (돌풍) (TV series)

The Whirlwind (돌풍, Dolpung) is a 2024 Netflix Korean political thriller series, 12 episodes, written by Park Kyung-su, directed by Kim Yong-wan, starring Sol Kyung-gu as a prime minister who plots to assassinate a corrupt president and Kim Hee-ae as the deputy prime minister opposing him.

The Whirlwind Girl (旋风少女)

The Whirlwind Girl (旋风少女) is Ming Xiaoxi's four-volume youth taekwondo romance novel (2008) and its 2015 Hunan TV drama with Yang Yang and Hu Bingqing, the highest-rated title in the Youth on Air weekly slot with a 2.42% average CSM rating, followed by a 2016 second season.

The Whisper (film)

The Whisper (El susurro) is a 2025 Uruguayan-Argentine horror film by Gustavo Hernández about siblings fleeing their vampire father; Sitges premiere, Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre and Mórbido festival winner, distinct from The Whisper Man.

The Whisper Man

The Whisper Man is a 2026 Netflix crime thriller directed by James Ashcroft, adapted from Alex North's 2019 novel, starring Robert De Niro, Adam Scott, Michelle Monaghan, and Michael Keaton; released August 28, 2026, it reached #1 on Netflix despite mixed reviews.

The Whispering Chorus

The Whispering Chorus is Cecil B. DeMille's 1918 silent drama, also known by no other title, in which embezzler John Tremble fakes his death and is executed for his own murder; conscience appears as superimposed whispering faces.

The Whispers (TV series)

The Whispers is a 2015 ABC science fiction drama, also known by the working titles The Visitors and Forever, created by Soo Hugh from Ray Bradbury's "Zero Hour." An entity called Drill manipulates children; canceled after one season of 13 episodes.

The Whistle Blower

The Whistle Blower is a 1987 British political thriller directed by Simon Langton, starring Michael Caine as a father who investigates his son's death at the intelligence agency GCHQ.

The Whistleblower

The Whistleblower (2010) is Larysa Kondracki's debut thriller starring Rachel Weisz as Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop and UN peacekeeper in Bosnia who exposed DynCorp-linked sex trafficking and won a British tribunal case.

The White Balloon (بادکنک سفید)

The White Balloon (بادکنک سفید, Badkonake Sefid) is Jafar Panahi's 1995 debut feature, scripted by Abbas Kiarostami, about a Tehran girl who loses a 500-toman note buying a Nowruz goldfish; it won the 1995 Cannes Caméra d'Or.

The White Crow

The White Crow is a 2018 biographical drama film directed by Ralph Fiennes, following Rudolf Nureyev's early life and ending with his defection to the West in 1961.

The White Hell of Pitz Palü

The White Hell of Pitz Palü (Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü) is a 1929 German silent Bergfilm directed by Arnold Fanck and G.W. Pabst, starring Gustav Diessl and Leni Riefenstahl, shot in the Bernina Alps, a major Weimar box-office success restored in 1996/97.

The White Lotus

The White Lotus is an HBO social satire anthology created, written, and directed by Mike White, following hotel guests and staff at a White Lotus resort for one week each season. Seasons: Hawaii (2021), Sicily (2022), Thailand (2025), French Riviera (in production); 16 Emmy wins from 66 nominations.

The White Lotus season 1

The White Lotus season 1 (HBO, 2021), Mike White's six-episode satirical comedy drama set at a Maui resort, filmed at Four Seasons Maui at Wailea during COVID; Emmy-winning satire of class, tourism, and colonialism.

The White Lotus season 2

The White Lotus season 2 is the seven-episode, Sicily-set 2022 installment of Mike White's HBO anthology satire, filmed at the Four Seasons San Domenico Palace in Taormina. It premiered October 30, 2022 to 1.5 million viewers, earned 23 Emmy nominations and five wins, and shifted the series' focus from colonialism to sex and transactional relationships.

The White Lotus season 3

The White Lotus season 3 (White lotus s3): Mike White's eight-episode HBO anthology installment set at a Thai wellness resort on Koh Samui, premiering February 16, 2025, themed on spirituality, with a 6.2-million-viewer finale and a fourth season planned for 2026.

The White Olive Tree (白色橄榄树)

The White Olive Tree (白色橄榄树) is a 2025 iQIYI Chinese military-romance drama, 38 episodes, adapted from Jiu Yue Xi's novel, starring Chen Zheyuan and Liang Jie in the fictional war-torn Dongguo.

The White Princess (miniseries)

The White Princess is a 2017 eight-episode Starz miniseries adapted from Philippa Gregory's novel, a sequel to The White Queen, starring Jodie Comer as Elizabeth of York opposite Jacob Collins-Levy's Henry VII.