Christmas 2024: all the new festive films you’ll want to watch this year

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Ahead of the holiday season, here are all the new festive Christmas films coming to our screens in 2024.

The festive season is finally here and a lot of us have already started the annual watching of Christmas films. It is cosy season, after all. By mid-November, I’d already watched The Holiday and I honestly have zero regrets about my choice.

A huge part of the Christmas season is all the excellent film and TV we get to dive into in the comfort of our homes. As well as circling all our favourite festive TV programmes in the TV guide, there are also lots of new Christmas films coming to streaming platforms this year – especially if you’ve managed to work your way through all the classics.

So, here are the best new festive Christmas films coming to our screens in 2024.

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Vengeance Most Fowl is Wallace & Gromit’s return to their home at the BBC 16 years after their previous adventure. The feature-length film sees Gromit’s growing concern as Wallace becomes over-dependent on his inventions, which proves justified when Wallace creates a ‘smart gnome’ that seems to develop an evil mind of its own. As events begin to spiral out of control, it’s up to Gromit to put aside his qualms and battle sinister forces, or Wallace may never be able to invent again.

But who could possibly be behind such evil actions?

Release date: 25 December via BBC

Dear Santa

Jack Black as the devil? Sounds like comedy magic. The upcoming Paramount+ film follows a boy who still believes in Santa and, determined to prove to his friends that he’s real, writes a letter to Father Christmas. However, a spelling error leads him to accidentally summon Satan (Black).

Available to watch via Paramount+

Nutcrackers

This festive film centres on career-obsessed Michael (Ben Stiller), who arrives three weeks before Christmas to serve as the temporary caregiver for his four unruly nephews until they can get set up with a foster home. He drives out to his sister’s small Ohio town thinking all he needs to do is sign some papers and get back to the city, but it’s not nearly that simple.

Available to watch via Disney+

Carry-On

If your favourite Christmas film is a Die Hard-style action, then this new Netflix film is for you.

In the new thriller, Taron Egerton plays Ethan Kopek, a TSA agent who’s blackmailed by a mysterious traveller into letting a dangerous package slip onto a Christmas Eve flight. The high-stakes circumstances are due to Jason Bateman’s sinister villain, whom Ethan initially meets as a voice through headphones that threatens his pregnant girlfriend (Sofia Carson) if he doesn’t comply with instructions. And it only gets more tense…

Release date: 13 December via Netflix

The Night Before Christmas In Wonderland

The film is based on the bestselling book written by Carys Bexington, which mashes up two classic tales: Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland and Clement Clarke Moore’s poem, ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas. The plot features characters from both story worlds including St Nick, voiced by Gerard Butler, The Queen of Hearts voiced by Emilia Clarke and Alice in Wonderland voiced by Simone Ashley.

Release date: 13 December via Sky Cinema

That Christmas

The Love Actually director, Richard Curtis, is back in his festive era with an animated movie to light up the holiday season. Based on Curtis’ own trilogy of children’s books, That Christmas tells a series of connected tales about family and friends, love and loneliness and Santa Claus making a big mistake. “I hope it’ll remind people of the joy and complexity of Christmas, and some of the joys and comedy and heartbreak of childhood,” Curtis told Netflix’s Tudum.

That Christmas features an all-star cast including Brian Cox, Fiona Shaw, Jodie Whittaker, Lolly Adefope and lots more.