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Ballantine's
Ballantine's is a blended Scotch whisky brand founded by George Ballantine in Edinburgh in 1827, now made by Chivas Brothers (Pernod Ricard) in Dumbarton; flagship Finest dates to 1910, and it is the world's number two Scotch behind Johnnie Walker.
Ballard (TV series)
Ballard is a Prime Video police procedural (2025) starring Maggie Q as LAPD Detective Renée Ballard, head of a new cold case unit; a Michael Connelly adaptation and Bosch spinoff, renewed for season 2.
Ballbreaker
Ballbreaker is the thirteenth studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released in September 1995 and produced by Rick Rubin, marking Phil Rudd's return on drums.
Ballerina (2016 film)
Ballerina, released in the United States as Leap!, is a 2016 France-Canada animated musical about an orphan girl who runs away to 1879 Paris to become a dancer.
Ballerina (2024 film)
Ballerina (2024 film), released June 6, 2025 as From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, is a Len Wiseman action spinoff starring Ana de Armas as assassin Eve Macarro, set between John Wick Chapters 3 and 4; distinct from the 2023 Korean Netflix film of the same name.
Ballerina (soundtrack)
Ballerina (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the 2025 score album by Tyler Bates and Joel J. Richard for the John Wick spin-off film Ballerina, released June 6, 2025 by Lakeshore Records, 26 tracks, distinct from the 2023 Korean film and 2016 animated Ballerina scores.
Ballerina (발레리나) (2023 film)
Ballerina (발레리나) is a 2023 South Korean Netflix action revenge thriller directed by Lee Chung-hyun, starring Jeon Jong-seo as ex-bodyguard Ok-ju avenging her ballerina friend Min-hee (Park Yu-rim); distinct from the 2025 John Wick film.
Ballermann Hits
Ballermann Hits are the German-language party schlager songs of the Ballermann, the party mile on Mallorca's Playa de Palma beach, and a long-running compilation series and television show built on that repertoire.
Ballers
Ballers: HBO comedy-drama (2015–2019, 5 seasons, 47 episodes) created by Stephen Levinson, starring Dwayne Johnson as retired NFL player turned Miami financial manager Spencer Strasmore; 72% Tomatometer, streamed on Netflix from 2023.
Ballet
Ballet: theatrical dance form originating in 15th-century Italian Renaissance courts, codified in France under Louis XIV, shaped by Romantic and Russian classical eras; known for turnout, pointe work, and companies like the Paris Opera Ballet.
Ballet choreography
Ballet choreography is the art of composing dance for ballet, blending movements, mime, music, and scenic design into a unified stage work, a term once meaning written dance records.
Ballet Comique de la Reine
The Ballet Comique de la Reine, or Balet comique de la Royne, is a French court ballet staged in Paris in 1581, regarded as the first true ballet de cour.
Ballet conductor
A ballet conductor leads a ballet company's orchestra from the pit while watching the stage, adjusting tempo in real time so the music serves the dancers, and helps shape new works.
Ballet dancer
Ballet dancer: a performer trained in ballet's standardized classical technique, including en pointe work. Distinguished by vocational training from childhood, company ranks, and injury rates near 1.24 per 1000 dance hours.
Ballet Philippines
Ballet Philippines is a professional classical and contemporary dance company resident at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila since its 1969 founding by Alice Reyes.
Ballets based on novels and prose fiction
Ballets based on novels and prose fiction are ballets whose stories come from novels or novellas rather than plays or fairy tales, documented since a danced Don Quixote in 1740.
Ballets by George Balanchine
The ballets of George Balanchine span 465 cataloged works from 1920 to 1982, including Serenade, Apollo, and Jewels, with more than 150 created for New York City Ballet.
Ballets by Jerome Robbins
Ballets by Jerome Robbins is the repertory of concert ballets choreographer Jerome Robbins created over more than fifty years, from Fancy Free in 1944 to Brandenburg in 1997.
Ballets by Marius Petipa
The ballets of Marius Petipa, the French-born choreographer who worked for the Russian Imperial Theatres from 1847, include Don Quixote, La Bayadère, The Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker.
Ballets Russes
Ballets Russes: Paris-based ballet company founded by Serge Diaghilev in 1909, active until his death in 1929; created over 100 ballets with Fokine, Nijinsky, Massine, Nijinska, and Balanchine, bringing modernism onto the dance stage.
Ballin' (Mustard and Roddy Ricch song)
Ballin' is a 2019 hip-hop single by producer Mustard featuring Roddy Ricch, from the album Perfect Ten. It peaked at #11 on the Hot 100, was Grammy-nominated for Best Rap/Sung Performance, and later became a meme.
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002), also released as Ecks vs. Sever, is a Warner Bros. action film directed by Wych Kaosayananda, starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu; it holds a 0% Rotten Tomatoes score and grossed $14.3 million against a $70 million budget.
Balloon (2017 film)
Balloon (பலூன்), 2017 Tamil horror comedy directed by Sinish Sreedharan, starring Jai, Anjali, Janani Iyer, and Yogi Babu, music by Yuvan Shankar Raja; released 29 December 2017, 146 minutes, U/A.
Balloonerism
Balloonerism, also styled Balloonerism (Mac Miller album), is the second posthumous studio album by Mac Miller, recorded in 2014 between Watching Movies with the Sound Off and Faces and released January 17, 2025 by his estate via Warner Records with a companion animated short film.
Ballroom dance
Ballroom dance is partner dancing in a shared hold, from the waltz, quadrille, and minuet of European ballrooms to DanceSport's ten-dance Standard and Latin competition system and modern social styles.
Balls of Fury
Balls of Fury is a 2007 American sports comedy directed by Robert Ben Garant. It stars Dan Fogler as an FBI agent entering an underground table tennis tournament.
Balls Up
Balls Up is a 2026 American action comedy directed by Peter Farrelly, starring Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser as condom marketers who spark a World Cup scandal in Brazil; released on Prime Video April 15, 2026, to poor reviews (23% Tomatometer, Metascore 34).
Ballykissangel
Ballykissangel: BBC Northern Ireland comedy-drama (1996-2001, six series) created by Kieran Prendiville, about Father Peter Clifford, an English priest in a fictional Irish village, starring Stephen Tompkinson and Dervla Kirwan.
Balmain (fashion house)
Balmain is a French luxury fashion house founded in Paris in 1945 by Pierre Balmain, originator of the New French Style and Jolie Madame. Owned by Qatar's Mayhoola since 2016; led by Olivier Rousteing 2011-2025, then Antonin Tron.
Baloo
Baloo is the bear in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894), likely a sloth bear, Mowgli's strict teacher of jungle law; Disney's 1967 Phil Harris version made him a fun-loving icon of "The Bare Necessities."