The Best New Movies and TV Streaming in December 2024, and Where to Watch Them

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The year is almost over so it’s time to fire up your favorite streaming service and make use of that membership. Welcome to io9’s latest edition of the Nerd’s Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you’ll like most. (And sometimes, just the ones that we like most.)

As always, we’re including the best new films and TV coming to Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Disney+, and Max—as well as Paramount+, Shudder, and Peacock, including several new releases.

Here’s the best of what’s streaming in December 2024.

What’s coming to Netflix in December 2024?

December 1

The Happytime Murders
Project X
We’re the Millers
Zero Dark Thirty

December 16

The Dead Don’t Die

December 26

Squid Game: Season 2

December 30

Mad Max: Fury Road

What’s coming to Hulu in December 2024?

December 1

Epic (2013)
Epic Movie (2007)
A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)
Miracle On 34th Street (1994)
Moulin Rouge (2001)
The Muppets (2011)
Muppets Most Wanted (2014)
Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
Rio 2 (2014)
Sommersby (1993)
Speed (1994)
Gladiator (2000)
The Quick and the Dead (1995)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012)
Twilight (2008)
Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)

December 6

Doctor Dolittle (1998)
Doctor Dolittle 2 (2001)

December 9

Step Up (2006)
Step Up 2 The Streets (2008)
Step Up 3D (2010)

December 17

Cuckoo (2024)

What’s coming to Prime Video in December 2024?

December 1

A Haunting in Venice (2023)
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
After Hours (1985)
All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 (1996)
Back to School (1986)
Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice Ultimate Edition (2016)
Bio-Dome (1996)
Born to be Wild (1995)
Child’s Play (1988)
Critters (1986)
Ghost Town (2008)
Green Room (2016)
Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth (1992)
Hellraiser IV: Bloodline (1996)
Hellraiser VII: Deader (2005)
Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002)
Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005)
Hellraiser: Inferno (2000)
Hercules (1983)
Joker (2019)
Justice League (2017)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
Major League (1989)
Monster Trucks (2017)
Mr. Nanny (1993)
One Crazy Summer (1986)
Osmosis Jones (2001)
Pet Sematary Two (1992)
Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
Red Dawn (1984)
Road to Perdition (2002)
Stephen King’s Thinner (1996)
Tank Girl (1995)
Teen Wolf (1985)
The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
The Batman (2022)
The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002)
The Golden Child (1986)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
The Land that Time Forgot (1975)
The Warriors (1979)
The Witches (1990)
Total Recall (1990)
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Vision Quest (1985)

December 11

Knives Out (2019)

December 13

Beau Is Afraid (2023)

December 19

The Creator (2023)

December 31

A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

What’s coming to Disney + in December 2024?

December 3

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

December 9

Bluey Minisodes

December 11

Dream Productions

December 13

Invisible

December 22

Marvel Animation’s What If…? Season 3 (continues for 8 days)

December 25

Doctor Who: Joy to the World

What’s coming to Max in December 2024?

December 1

Clash of the Titans (2010)
Death Race (2008)
Jupiter Ascending (2015)
Lord of the Rings (1978)
Megamind (2010)
Mr. Popper’s Penguins (2011)
Ninja Assassin (2009)
Teen Titans Go! 400th Episode
The Goonies (1985)
The Hobbit (1977)

December 5

Creature Commandos, Season 1

December 6

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice

December 7

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

What’s coming to Paramount+ in December 2024?

December 1

A Christmas Carol
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Bebe’s Kids
Blade Runner 2049
Boogie Nights
Charlotte’s Web
Chicago
Cliffhanger
Coneheads
Contagion
Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee II
Cujo
Disturbia
Down to Earth
Edward Scissorhands
Fear
Free Willy
Her
King Richard
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life
Major League
Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas To All!
Miracle on 34th Street
Mirror Mirror
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
Nancy Drew
No Country for Old Men
Point Break
Rings
Rosemary’s Baby
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Exorcist
The Iron Giant
The Lovely Bones
The Matrix
The Monster Squad
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
The Secret Garden
The Uninvited
Trading Places
Unaccompanied Minors
Wayne’s World 2
What Men Want
Wild Things
Zodiac

What’s coming to Shudder in December 2024?

December 1

A Creature Was Stirring
The Haunted Season: To Fire You Come At Last
Coming Home in the Dark
Dead Calm
Village of the Dammed
The Primevals
BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas
Rare Exports
Body
December 9
Neon Maniacs
Post Mortem
Rabid
December 15
T-Blockers
Satranic Panic
Carnage For Christmas

December 20

Last Straw

What’s coming to Peacock in December 2024?

December 1

Beethoven (‘92)
The Big Lebowski
Catch Me If You Can
Deep Impact
Dr. Seuss’ The Cat In The Hat
Edward Scissorhands
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Hook
Inception
Krampus
Kung Fu Panda Holiday
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Life (2017)
Mamma Mia!
Miracle On 34th Street (1947)
Miracle On 34th Street (1994)
Nutcracker: The Motion Picture
Office Space
Pacific Rim
Puss In Boots
Rise Of The Guardians
Robin Hood: Men In Tights
Sonic The Hedgehog
This Is The End

December 2

Caprica, Season 1

December 3

The Northman

December 6

Saban’s Power Rangers
Speak No Evil (2024)
Strays (2023)

December 7

Trolls

December 9

The Bionic Woman, Seasons 1-3

December 20

Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken

December 22

Sing 2

December 26

Five Nights At Freddy’s
Prey For The Devil

December 30

Inside Look: Nosferatu

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