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Winter Garden Theatre
Winter Garden Theatre: Shubert-owned Broadway house at 1634 Broadway, New York, opened 1911 in a converted American Horse Exchange; home of Cats, West Side Story, Mamma Mia!; distinct from the 295-seat Garden Theatre on Plant in Winter Garden, Florida.
Winter Is Coming
Winter Is Coming: first episode of HBO's Game of Thrones (April 17, 2011), written by Benioff and Weiss, directed by Tim Van Patten; adapts the prologue and opening of Martin's A Game of Thrones; 2.2 million initial viewers, 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Winter Light
Winter Light (Nattvardsgästerna, 1963) is Ingmar Bergman's black-and-white Swedish drama, middle film of the faith trilogy with Through a Glass Darkly and The Silence, starring Gunnar Björnstrand as a doubting pastor, shot by Sven Nykvist in natural winter light.
Winter Sleep (film)
Winter Sleep (Kış Uykusu) is Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 196-minute 2014 Turkish drama, adapted from Chekhov stories, about hotelier Aydın in Cappadocia; it won the 2014 Cannes Palme d'Or, the second Turkish film to do so after Yol.
Winter Sonata (겨울연가)
Winter Sonata (겨울연가) is a 2002 KBS 2TV Korean drama, 20 episodes, directed by Yoon Seok-ho, starring Bae Yong-jun and Choi Ji-woo. The second of the Endless Love seasonal quartet, it is credited with launching the Korean Wave in Japan and the Yon-sama craze.
Winter's Bone
Winter's Bone is a 2010 Debra Granik film adapted from Daniel Woodrell's 2006 Ozarks novel, starring Jennifer Lawrence as Ree Dolly, who searches for her missing father to save the family home; it won Sundance's Grand Jury Prize and earned two Oscar nominations.
Winter's Tale (film)
Winter's Tale (2014) is Akiva Goldsman's directorial debut, a fantasy romance adapted from Mark Helprin's 1983 novel, starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Russell Crowe, and Will Smith as Lucifer; it grossed $30.8 million worldwide and holds 12% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Winx Club
Winx Club is an Italian animated TV series for girls created by Iginio Straffi, premiered on Rai 2 on 28 January 2004 and produced by Rainbow; 9 series, 234 episodes, films, Fate: The Winx Saga, and 500+ licenses in 150 countries.
Winx Club: The Magic Is Back
Winx Club: The Magic Is Back is a 2025 CGI-animated reboot of Winx Club by Iginio Straffi's Rainbow with Rai Kids, following 16-year-old fairy Bloom at Alfea across 26 episodes, premiered on CBBC, Rai 2, Netflix, and TF1, with a 2026 console game and second season.
Wipe (transition)
Wipe transition: film editing effect in which a moving boundary line or shape replaces one shot with the next. Also called iris, clock, or star wipe. First used by Robert Paul in Scrooge (1901); famous in Star Wars; now rare in features.
Wipeout (2008 game show)
Wipeout is an ABC obstacle-course reality game show that premiered June 24, 2008, created by Matt Kunitz; 24 contestants compete for $50,000, hosted by John Anderson, John Henson, and Jill Wagner, with a 2021 TBS reboot.
Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (We Children from Bahnhof Zoo) is the 1978 non-fiction book by Stern journalists Kai Hermann and Horst Rieck on Christiane Felscherinow's heroin addiction in 1970s West Berlin, adapted into Uli Edel's 1981 film Christiane F. and a 2021 Amazon series.
Wire in the Blood
Wire in the Blood is a British ITV1 crime drama (2002–2008) adapted from Val McDermid's Tony Hill/Carol Jordan novels, starring Robson Green as clinical psychologist profiler Dr Tony Hill with Hermione Norris, later Simone Lahbib, produced by Coastal Productions.
Wireless (2020 TV series)
Wireless (2020) is a Quibi short-form thriller series, 10 episodes of about 8 minutes, created by Jack Seidman and Zach Wechter and executive produced by Steven Soderbergh, starring Tye Sheridan as a stranded student whose dying phone is his lifeline, using Quibi's Turnstyle portrait/landscape format.
Wisdom of the Crowd
Wisdom of the Crowd, also known by its Israeli original format title, is a 2017 CBS crime drama, 13 episodes, starring Jeremy Piven as Jeffrey Tanner, who builds the crowdsourced crime-solving app Sophe to find his daughter's killer; cancelled amid Piven misconduct allegations.
Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos
Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos is a 2024 two-part HBO documentary by Alex Gibney about The Sopranos creator David Chase, released for the show's 25th anniversary; it premiered at Tribeca, debuted September 7, 2024, and earned a 100% Tomatometer and Metascore 84.
Wiseguy (TV series)
Wiseguy: American CBS crime drama (1987–1990), 75 episodes, starring Ken Wahl as undercover OCB agent Vinnie Terranova; created by Stephen J. Cannell; pioneered 4-to-10-episode story arcs with villains Ray Sharkey and Kevin Spacey.
Wish (film)
Wish is a 2023 American animated musical comedy from Walt Disney Animation Studios, its 62nd feature and Disney100 centerpiece, following 17-year-old Asha and the star Star against King Magnifico of Rosas.
Wish Dragon
Wish Dragon is a 2021 Sony Pictures Animation CG fantasy comedy directed by Chris Appelhans, a Chinese-American co-production with Base Animation set in Shanghai, released in China January 2021 and on Netflix June 2021.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.