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Wintersun
Wintersun is a Finnish symphonic melodic death metal band founded by ex-Ensiferum multi-instrumentalist Jari Mäenpää. Known for the debut (2004), Time I (2012), The Forest Seasons (2017), and the twelve-year-delayed Time II (2024), crowdfunded with over a million euros.
Wintrust Arena
Wintrust Arena, opened October 2017 in Chicago's South Loop, is a 10,387-seat MPEA-owned event center, home of DePaul basketball and the Chicago Sky, distinct from the United Center.
Wintry Groves and Layered Banks
Wintry Groves and Layered Banks (寒林重汀圖, Kanrin jūtei zu) is a hanging scroll of ink and light color on silk attributed to the Five Dynasties painter Dong Yuan.
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.
Wipers (band)
Wipers: American punk rock band formed 1977 in Portland, Oregon by Greg Sage; studio-project origins, albums Is This Real? (1980), Youth of America, Over the Edge; key influence on Nirvana, Mudhoney and grunge.
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.
Wir sind Helden
Wir sind Helden, German pop-rock band founded 2000 in Hamburg with Judith Holofernes, Jean-Michel Tourette, Mark Tavassol, and Pola Roy; breakthrough self-released EP "Guten Tag" (2002), albums Die Reklamation (2003), Von hier an blind (2005), Soundso (2007), Bring mich nach Hause (2010).
Wire (band)
Wire: English art-punk/post-punk band (Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Bruce Gilbert, Robert Grey) formed in London, Roxy debut April 1977; Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, 154; pinkflag label; influence on hardcore and post-punk.
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.
Wireless Festival
Wireless Festival is a London rap, hip-hop, and Afrobeats day festival at Finsbury Park, run by Festival Republic and Live Nation since 2005; Drake headlined all three 2025 days, and the 2026 edition was cancelled after Ye's UK entry was blocked.
Wirephoto
Wirephoto is the transmission of news photographs over telephone and telegraph lines by facsimile, best known as the Associated Press service launched January 1, 1935.
Wisconsin Death Trip
Wisconsin Death Trip, Michael Lesy's 1973 Pantheon photobook from his Rutgers dissertation, juxtaposes Charles Van Schaick's Black River Falls photographs with Badger State Banner clippings; adapted as a 1999 James Marsh film.
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.
Wisdom Sits in Places
Wisdom Sits in Places is a 1996 book of essays by anthropologist Keith H. Basso on place-names and moral storytelling among the Western Apache of Cibecue, Arizona.
Wisdom, Impression, Sentiment
Wisdom, Impression, Sentiment (智・感・情) is an 1897 oil triptych of a standing nude woman by Japanese painter Kuroda Seiki, which won a silver prize at the 1900 Paris Exposition.
Wise and Benevolent Women
Wise and Benevolent Women (列女仁智图) is a Chinese handscroll in the Palace Museum, Beijing, traditionally attributed to Gu Kaizhi and illustrating Liu Xiang's Biographies of Exemplary Women.
Wise Blood
Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's 1952 first novel (Harcourt, Brace), follows Hazel Motes, preacher of the Church Without Christ in Taulkinham; John Huston filmed it in 1979.
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.
Wise Man's Grandchild (賢者の孫)
Wise Man's Grandchild (賢者の孫, Kenja no Mago) is Tsuyoshi Yoshioka's isekai web novel begun on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2015, published as a Famitsu Bunko light novel, with manga and a 2019 Silver Link anime about Shin Wolford.
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 (company)
Wish, also known as Wish.com, was a San Francisco mobile shopping marketplace linking mostly Chinese merchants with consumers through personalized product feeds, sold to Qoo10 in 2024.
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 (The Cure album)
Wish is The Cure's ninth studio album, released on 21 April 1992, produced by Robert Smith and Dave Allen, and spawning the single "Friday I'm in Love."
Wish 107.5
Wish 107.5 is an all-hits FM radio station in Quezon City, launched in 2014 and known for the Wish Bus, a mobile performance studio on YouTube.
Wish 107.5 Bus (YouTube music platform)
The Wish 107.5 Bus, also called the Wish Bus, is a mobile FM radio studio and YouTube performance channel launched in 2014 by the Philippine station Wish 107.5.
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.