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Wes Chatham
Wes Chatham (John Wesley Chatham, born 1978) is an American actor, a former Navy aviation firefighter discovered during the filming of Antwone Fisher, known for Amos Burton on The Expanse and Castor in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay.
Wes Craven
Wes Craven (1939–2015) was an American horror film director of The Last House on the Left, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, and Music of the Heart, who reinvented the horror genre three times.
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) is the seventh Elm Street film, a meta-horror entry in which Craven, Langenkamp, and Englund play themselves as Freddy Krueger enters the real world.
Wes Studi
Wes Studi (Wesley Studie), Cherokee Nation actor born 1947 in Nofire Hollow, Oklahoma; Vietnam veteran and activist; broke out in Dances with Wolves, Last of the Mohicans, and Geronimo; first Native American actor to receive an Academy Award, the 2019 Governors Award.
Wesley Crusher
Wesley Crusher: fictional Star Trek character played by Wil Wheaton in The Next Generation, son of Beverly and Jack Crusher, acting ensign on stardate 41263.4, later a Traveler in Picard and Prodigy.
Wesley Enoch
Wesley Enoch (born 1969) is an Aboriginal Australian playwright and theater director, a Noonuccal Nuugi man from Queensland, best known for The 7 Stages of Grieving and Black Medea.
Wesley Eure
Wesley Eure (Wesley Eure Loper, born 1951) is an American actor known as Will Marshall on Land of the Lost (1974–76) and Mike Horton on Days of Our Lives (1974–81), later co-creator of PBS's Dragon Tales.
Wesley Snipes
Wesley Snipes, born 1962, is an American actor and martial artist known for New Jack City, the Blade trilogy, and a 2024 return as Blade in Deadpool & Wolverine.
West Beirut (بيروت الغربية)
West Beirut (بيروت الغربية; West Beyrouth, À l'abri les enfants) is Ziad Doueiri's 1998 semi-autobiographical debut film about three teenagers in divided Beirut at the start of the 1975 Lebanese Civil War; it won at Cannes and Toronto and was Lebanon's 1999 Oscar entry.
West End theatre
West End theatre: London's commercial theatre district around Leicester Square and Shaftesbury Avenue, with Broadway the peak of English-language commercial theatre; around 40 major venues, SOLT-run Olivier Awards, substantial overseas ticket sales.
West Mulholland
West Mulholland is an American actor from San Clemente, California, known for Ryan in Soderbergh's Presence (2024), Mitch Crenshaw in Dark Harvest (2023), Axel on Animal Kingdom, and Stanford class of 2027.
West of the Tracks
West of the Tracks (铁西区, Tiexi qu) is Wang Bing's nine-hour, three-part DV documentary (1999–2001 filming, released 2002–2003) on the collapse of Shenyang's Tiexi state-owned industrial district and its laid-off workers.
West Side Story
West Side Story: 1957 Broadway musical adapting Romeo and Juliet to Manhattan gang rivalry between the Jets and Puerto Rican Sharks; music by Bernstein, lyrics by Sondheim, book by Laurents, choreographed by Robbins; landmark 1961 Oscar-winning film and 2021 Spielberg remake.
West Side Story (1961 film)
West Side Story (1961 film), directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins from the 1957 Broadway musical, adapts Romeo and Juliet to warring New York gangs; it won 10 Oscars including Best Picture and made Rita Moreno the first Latina Oscar winner.
West Side Story (2021 film)
West Side Story is a 2021 American musical film directed by Steven Spielberg, adapted from the 1957 Broadway musical, starring Rachel Zegler and Ansel Elgort.
WestCOL
WestCOL (Luis Fernando Villa Álvarez, born 2001) is a Colombian streamer from Medellín, Kick's most-followed streamer (2024), creator of Stream Fighters boxing events and the W Sound music project under his Imperio W brand.
Western (genre)
The western (Western genre) is a film and television genre built on the American frontier, covering its classic era, spaghetti and revisionist westerns, global variants, and neo-westerns such as Yellowstone-era streaming hits.
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), performing arts academy of Edith Cowan University in Perth; 300+ public performances yearly; alumni include Hugh Jackman and Tim Minchin; moved to ECU City campus in 2026.
Westhampton (film)
Westhampton is a 2025 American drama, Christian Nilsson's debut feature, starring Finn Wittrock as filmmaker Tom Bell, who returns to his Long Island hometown after a high-school car accident; premiered at Tribeca 2025, released July 10, 2026.
Westworld
Westworld: HBO science-fiction drama series created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, based on Michael Crichton's 1973 film about an android theme park; ran 2016-2022, four seasons, 54 Emmy nominations, 9 wins, cancelled November 2022.
Westworld (film)
Westworld (1973) is Michael Crichton's MGM science fiction Western about a robot theme park, starring Yul Brynner as the Gunslinger; the first feature film to use computer-processed imagery.
Westworld (TV series)
Westworld is an American HBO science fiction series developed by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, adapted from Michael Crichton's 1973 film and running four seasons from 2016 to 2022.
Wet Dreams (몽정기)
Wet Dreams (몽정기, Mongjunggi) is a 2002 South Korean teen sex comedy directed by Jung Cho-shin, starring Lee Beom-su and Kim Seon-ah, set in 1988, with 2.5 million admissions and a 2005 sequel.
Wet Hot American Summer
Wet Hot American Summer (2001) is a David Wain and Michael Showalter cult comedy set on the last day of Camp Firewood in 1981, starring Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, and Bradley Cooper, a box office failure that later spawned two Netflix prequel series.
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp is an eight-episode 2015 Netflix prequel to the 2001 cult film, reuniting Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, and the original cast at Camp Firewood, 1981.
Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later is an eight-episode 2017 Netflix limited comedy series by David Wain and Michael Showalter, a sequel to the 2001 cult film set at the Camp Firewood ten-year reunion in 1991, with the original cast returning.
Wetlands (2013 film)
Wetlands (Feuchtgebiete), 2013 German comedy-drama by David Wnendt, adapted from Charlotte Roche's 2008 scandal-novel; Carla Juri plays unhygienic teen Helen Memel hospitalized after a shaving accident, trying to reunite her divorced parents.
Whale Rider
Whale Rider (2002), Niki Caro's drama based on Witi Ihimaera's novel, stars Keisha Castle-Hughes as Pai, a Māori girl proving her leadership to her grandfather Koro in Whangara; Oscar-nominated, Toronto People's Choice winner.
Whale Shark Jack
Whale Shark Jack (2026) is an Australian live-action family adventure film, a Stan Original directed by Miranda and Khrob Edmonds, starring Abbie Cornish and Alyla Browne, about a girl rescuing her whale shark friend Jack near Ningaloo Reef.
Whale Star: The Gyeongseong Mermaid (TV series)
Whale Star: The Gyeongseong Mermaid (고래별), upcoming 2027 tvN historical romance drama adapted from Na Yoon-hee's Naver webtoon, set in 1926 colonial Gyeongseong, starring Choi Woo-shik and Moon Ga-young, directed by Hur Jin-ho and Yoo Beom-sang.