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The Way, Way Back

The Way, Way Back is a 2013 American coming-of-age comedy-drama, the directorial debut of Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, starring Liam James, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, and Sam Rockwell; filmed at Water Wizz in Wareham, Massachusetts, it premiered at Sundance 2013 and grossed $21.4 million.

The Wayans Bros.

The Wayans Bros. is an American sitcom (The WB, 1995–1999, 5 seasons, 101 episodes) starring Shawn and Marlon Wayans as New York brothers with their diner-owner father Pops (John Witherspoon); its pilot was the first program The WB ever broadcast.

The Wayfaring Stranger (song)

Wayfaring Stranger (Roud 3339), also "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" or "Going Over Jordan", is an early-19th-century American folk and gospel hymn first printed in Bever's 1858 Christian Songster, recorded commercially from 1929, and associated with Burl Ives and the film 1917.

The Wayfinders

The Wayfinders is a 2025 Angel Studios fantasy adventure TV series created by Jason Faller and Kynan Griffin, directed by Glen Winter, about three high schoolers transported to a medieval world; filmed in Limerick, Ireland.

The Wayward Cloud (天边一朵云)

The Wayward Cloud (天邊一朵雲) is Tsai Ming-liang's 2005 Taiwan-France erotic musical drama, sequel to What Time Is It There?, set in a water-shortage city; it won the 2005 Berlinale Silver Bear and sparked censorship controversy in Taiwan.

The Wayward Pines Trilogy

The Wayward Pines Trilogy is Blake Crouch's three-novel series Pines, Wayward, and The Last Town (2012–14), following Secret Service agent Ethan Burke trapped in an Idaho town no one may leave; adapted by Fox in 2015.

The Wayward Realms

The Wayward Realms is an upcoming open-world fantasy RPG by OnceLost Games, founded by Ted Peterson, Julian LeFay, and Vijay Lakshman, billed as a spiritual successor to Daggerfall, with a virtual Game Master, procedural archipelago, and a 2024 Kickstarter that raised $902,119.

The WB Television Network

The WB Television Network (The WB), American broadcast network launched January 11, 1995 by Warner Bros. and Tribune under Jamie Kellner; teen dramas like Dawson's Creek and Buffy; shut down September 17, 2006, replaced by The CW.

The We We Are

"The We We Are" is the season 1 finale (episode 9, April 8, 2022) of Apple TV+'s Severance, written by Dan Erickson and directed by Ben Stiller, in which innies Mark, Helly, and Irving awaken outside Lumon via the Overtime Contingency.

The Weakest Link (British game show)

The Weakest Link is a British BBC quiz show, launched in 2000 and hosted by Anne Robinson, in which contestants build answer chains and vote off the weakest link.

The Wealth of Nations

The Wealth of Nations is Adam Smith's 1776 five-book treatise on political economy, which redefined national wealth as a country's annual produce rather than its stock of gold.

The Weary Blues

The Weary Blues is Langston Hughes's first poetry book, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1926 and known for blending blues rhythms with vernacular speech.

The Weasel Grave (鬼吹灯之黄皮子坟)

The Weasel Grave (鬼吹灯之黄皮子坟, Candle in the Tomb: The Weasel Grave) is a 2017 Tencent Video web series, 20 episodes, directed by Guan Hu and Fei Zhenxiang, starring Ethan Juan as Hu Bayi, adapted from the fifth Ghost Blows Out the Light novel about 1960s sent-down youth.

The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel, also known as weather.com, is an American weather television network launched in 1982, known for forecasts, storm coverage, and its mobile app.

The Weather Girls

The Weather Girls, originally Two Tons o' Fun, are the American vocal duo of Martha Wash and Izora Armstead, Sylvester's former backup singers, known for the 1982 disco hit "It's Raining Men."

The Weather Makers

The Weather Makers is a 2005 nonfiction book on climate change by the Australian scientist Tim Flannery, an international bestseller arguing that humans now control the climate.

The Weather Man

The Weather Man is a 2005 American comedy-drama film directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Nicolas Cage as a Chicago television weatherman whose success coexists with a failing personal life, with Michael Caine as his father.

The Weather Network

The Weather Network is a Canadian English-language specialty television channel that broadcasts weather forecasts 24 hours a day. Launched in 1988, it is operated by Pelmorex Corp. alongside MétéoMédia.

The Weavers

The Weavers: American folk quartet (Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert, Fred Hellerman) formed 1948 in New York; "Goodnight Irene" topped charts 13 weeks in 1950; blacklisted, disbanded 1953, reunited 1955 and 1980.

The Wedding

The Wedding (Wesele) is a 1901 symbolist drama in three acts by Polish playwright Stanisław Wyspiański, considered the most important Polish drama of the twentieth century.

The Wedding Banquet

The Wedding Banquet (喜宴) is Ang Lee's 1993 Taiwan-US comedy-drama about a gay New Yorker's sham marriage; Golden Bear winner, Oscar-nominated, most profitable 1993 film, remade by Andrew Ahn in 2025.

The Wedding Banquet (2025 film)

The Wedding Banquet (결혼 피로연) is a 2025 American queer romantic comedy directed by Andrew Ahn, co-written with James Schamus, reimagining Ang Lee's 1993 film. Set in Seattle, it stars Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, and Han Gi-chan in a green-card marriage plot; released by Bleecker Street April 18, 2025.

The Wedding Date

The Wedding Date (2005 film), directed by Clare Kilner, a romantic comedy starring Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney, based on Elizabeth Young's novel Asking for Trouble; earned $47 million worldwide but scored 12% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Wedding Guest (2018 film)

The Wedding Guest (2018 film): Michael Winterbottom thriller starring Dev Patel, Radhika Apte, Jim Sarbh; a hired man abducts a bride from an arranged wedding in Pakistan; TIFF 2018 premiere, UK release 19 July 2019. Distinct from the 2018 Cobie Smulders romantic comedy of the same name.

The Wedding March

The Wedding March (1928) is Erich von Stroheim's silent melodrama of pre-WWI Vienna, starring Fay Wray and ZaSu Pitts; its lost second part, The Honeymoon, burned in 1959.

The Wedding of Zein

The Wedding of Zein (Arabic: عرس الزين, ʿUrs al-Zayn) is a 1966 novella by Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih, in which the village fool Zein marries the village belle Ni'ma.

The Wedding Party

The Wedding Party is a 2016 Nigerian romantic comedy directed by Kemi Adetiba, starring Adesua Etomi and Banky W. Produced by the Elfike collective, it premiered at TIFF 2016 and became Nigeria's highest-grossing film with ₦452M.

The Wedding People

The Wedding People is Alison Espach's 2024 Henry Holt novel, a New York Times bestseller and Read With Jenna pick in which divorced adjunct professor Phoebe Stone, planning suicide at Newport's Cornwall Inn, is instead swept into bride Lila's six-day destination wedding and starts anew.

The Wedding Planner

The Wedding Planner is a 2001 American romantic comedy directed by Adam Shankman, starring Jennifer Lopez as a wedding planner who falls for a client's groom, Matthew McConaughey.