December 2024 Movie Releases: The Biggest Movies In Theaters This Month

Thanksgiving has come and gone, at least in the United States, and the world turns its attention to December and the end-of-year holidays that come with it, no matter what you celebrate. This month is always one of the most interesting of the year fo movies. December is when the big-budget family flicks hit theaters in time for the holidays, but studios also start rolling out their Oscar contenders in earnest. This month does not disappoint, with some huge franchise sequels hitting theaters, but also plenty of indies, a few animated movies, some killer horror films, and more.

Here are all the wide-release movies coming to theaters in December 2024. Get tickets here.

Y2K – Release Date: Friday, December 6

Cast: Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler, Julian Dennison, Daniel Zolghadri, Lachlan Watson, Fred Durst, Kyle Mooney, Eduardo Franco, Mason Gooding, The Kid Laroi

Director: Kyle Mooney

Synopsis: Two high school nobodies make the decision to crash the last major celebration before the new millennium on New Year’s Eve 1999. The night becomes even crazier than they could have ever dreamed when the clock strikes midnight.

Nightbitch – Release Date: Friday, December 6

Cast: Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Arleigh Snowden, Emmett Snowden, Jessica Harper, Zoë Chao, Mary Holland, Archana Rajan, Nate Heller, Darius De La Cruz

Director: Marielle Heller

Synopsis: A woman pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her domesticity takes a surreal turn as she starts to exhibit doglike behavior.

Get Away – Release Date: Friday, December 6

Cast: Nick Frost, Sebastian Croft, Aisling Bea, Eero Milonoff, Jouko Ahola, Ville Virtanen, Maisie Ayres, Anitta Suikkari, Aleksi Salonen. Eero Virtanen

Director: Steffen Haars

Synopsis: A family’s vacation to a remote getaway takes an unexpected turn when they discover the island they’re on is inhabited by a serial killer.

Solo Leveling: ReAwakening – Release Date: Friday, December 6

Director: Shunsuke Nakashige

Synopsis: Over a decade after ‘gates’ connecting worlds appeared, awakening ‘hunters’ with superpowers, weakest hunter Sung Jinwoo encounters a double dungeon and accepts a mysterious quest, becoming the only one able to level up, changing his fate.

Werewolves – Release Date: Friday, December 6

Cast: Frank Grillo, Katrina Law, James Michael Cummings, Ilfenesh Hadera, Lou Diamond Phillips, James Kyson

Director: Stephen C. Miller

Synopsis: Two scientists try to stop a mutation that turns people into werewolves after being touched by a super-moon the year before.

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim – Release Date: Friday, December 13

Cast: Miranda Otto, Brian Cox, Shaun Dooley, Luke Pasqualino, Lorraine Ashbourne, Janine Duvitski, Gaia Wise, Benjamin Wainwright, Michael Wildman, Jude Akuwudike

Director: Kenji Kamiyama

Synopsis: The untold story behind Helm’s Deep, hundreds of years before the fateful war, telling the life and bloodsoaked times of its founder, Helm Hammerhand, the King of Rohan.

Kraven the Hunter – Release Date: Friday, December 13

Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Russell Crowe, Fred Hechinger, Ariana DeBose, Alessandro Nivola, Christopher Abbott, Levi Miller, Greg Kolpakchi, Chi Lewis-Parry, Duran Fulton Brown

Director: J.C. Chandor

Synopsis: Kraven the Hunter is the visceral, action-packed origin story of how and why one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be. Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays Kraven, a man whose complex relationship with his ruthless father, Nikolai Kravinoff (Russell Crowe), starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, motivating him to become not only the greatest hunter in the world, but al so one of its most feared.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 – Release Date: Friday, December 20

Cast: Idris Elba, James Marsden, Jim Carrey, Ben Schwartz, Lee Majdoub, Keanu Reeves, Tika Sumpter, Colleen O’Shaughnessey, Tony McCarthy, Alfredo Tavares, Tom Butler

Director: Jeff Fowler

Synopsis: Sonic the Hedgehog returns to the big screen this holiday season in his most thrilling adventure yet. Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before. With their abilities outmatched in every way, Team Sonic must seek out an unlikely alliance in hopes of stopping Shadow and protecting the planet.

The Brutalist – Release Date: Friday, December 20

Cast: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Isaach De Bankolé, Alessandro Nivola, Ariane Labed, Michael Epp

Director: Brady Corbet

Synopsis: When visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client.

Mufasa: The Lion King – Release Date: Friday, December 20

Cast: Aaron Pierre, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Seth Rogen, Billy Eichner, John Kani, Mads Mikkelsen, Thandiwe Newton, Keith David, Blue Ivy Carter

Director: Barry Jenkins

Synopsis: Mufasa: The Lion King enlists Rafiki to relay the legend of Mufasa to young lion cub Kiara, daughter of Simba and Nala, with Timon and Pumbaa lending their signature schtick. Told in flashbacks, the story introduces Mufasa as an orphaned cub, lost and alone until he meets a sympathetic lion named Taka—the heir to a royal bloodline.

Homestead – Release Date: Friday, December 20

Cast: Neal McDonough, Dawn Olivieri, Susan Misner, Kevin Lawson, Bailey Chase, Currie Graham, Jesse Hutch, Olivia Sanabia, Kearran Giovanni, Alireza Mirmontazeri

Director: Ben Smallbone

Synopsis: A nuclear bomb is detonated in Los Angeles, and the nation devolves into unprecedented chaos. Ex-Green Beret Jeff Eriksson and his family escape to The Homestead, an eccentric prepper’s fortress nestled in the mountains. As violent threats and apocalyptic conditions creep toward their borders, the residents of The Homestead are left to wonder: how long can a group of people resist both the dangers of human nature and the bloodshed at their doorstep?

Nosferatu – Release Date: Wednesday, December 25

Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Bill Skarsgård, Willem Dafoe, Emma Corrin, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney, Paul A Maynard, Stacy Thunes

Director: Robert Eggers

Synopsis: Robert Eggers’ NOSFERATU is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

The Fire Inside – Release Date: Wednesday, December 25

Cast: Ryan Destiny, Jazmin Headley, Kylee D. Allen, Brian Tyree Henry, De’Adre Aziza, Chrystian Buddington, Maurice Wayne Anglin, Teanna Weir, Idrissa Sanogo, Taytem Douglas

Director: Rachel Morrison

Synopsis: THE FIRE INSIDE is the inspirational true story of Claressa Shields, arguably the greatest female boxer of all time. Claressa, a high school Junior from Flint, Michigan, aided by her tough-love coach, Jason Crutchfield, pushes past all limitations to become the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing. But even at the pinnacle of success, Claressa has to reckon with the fact that not all dreams are created equal, and the real fight has only just begun.

Babygirl – Release Date: Friday, December 20

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas, Sophie Wilde, Esther McGregor, Vaughan Reilly, Victor Slezak, Leslie Silva, Gaite Jansen, Robert Farrior

Director: Halina Reijn