As 2025 comes to a close, readers and viewers can stay warm with a few more book-to-screen adaptations. Keep an eye out for our in-depth reviews of The Housemaid, a new theatrical film based on the bestselling psychological thriller by Freida McFadden, starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried (premiering Dec. 19), and No Other Choice, a movie version of Donald E. Westlake’s satirical horror-thriller novel, The Ax, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Park Chan-wook (hitting theaters on Dec. 25). Here are four more book-based productions coming soon:

December 3: Oh. What. Fun. (film premiere, Prime Video)

This comedy film is based on a 2021 story by Chandler Baker about a harried family matriarch who becomes fed up with her large, inattentive family during the Christmas holiday season and decides to have a road-trip adventure on her own, involving her favorite morning show. The movie was co-written by Baker with director Michael Showalter (The State, The Eyes of Tammy Faye) and stars Michelle Pfeiffer, alongside Denis Leary, Felicity Jones, The Peripheral’s Chloë Grace Moretz, and Jason Schwartzman, among a lively cast.

December 5: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (film premiere, Disney+)

Amulet/Abrams published Partypooper, the 20th installment of Jeff Kinney’s wildly popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid children’s book series, this past October. Now, Disney+ is about to release its fourth animated film based on the series. The first, simply titled Diary of a Wimpy Kid, came out in 2021, based on Kinney’s 2007 series-starter; it was followed the next year by a version of the second book, Rodrick Rules (2008). Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever arrived in 2023, based on Kinney’s sixth installment. This new movie, inspired by 2009’s The Last Straw and directed by Matt Danner and Gino Nechele, follows hapless, scheming seventh grader Greg Heffley as he goes on a disastrous camping trip with his father and brother, among other misadventures.

December 6: Paws in the City  (film premiere, The CW)

This TV movie was inspired by Stefanie London’s 2022 novel, The Dachshund Wears Prada, in which struggling social media consultant Isla Thompson gets an unlikely job taking care of Camilla, a rascally dachshund recently inherited by the sweet but reclusive Theo Garrison, whose famous parents died in car accident when he was young. Our reviewer called the novel “an adorable slow-burn romance in which grief and abandonment are balanced by Camilla's antics, even if they do come at the most inopportune time.” (One of London’s previous novels, The Aussie Next Door, was named one of Kirkus’ Best Indie Books of 2019.) The film, directed by John L’Ecuyer, features the charming Emeraude Toubia (Shadowhunters) and Carter Jenkins (Famous in Love).

December 10: Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Season 2 premiere, Disney+)

In Rick Riordan’s bestselling fantasy series for young readers, Perseus “Percy” Jackson is a 12-year-old demigod: His mother is human, and his father is the Greek god Poseidon. In the first book, The Lightning Thief (2005), he learns this secret and goes on a mission with other young people with connections to Greek mythology to retrieve something stolen from Zeus himself. The novel was the basis of the first season of this show (2023), which stars The Adam Project’s Walker Scobell as Percy; Beast’s Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth Chase, a daughter of Athena; and Freakier Friday’s Aryan Simhadri as satyr Grover Underwood. This new season is based on Riordan’s second series entry, The Sea of Monsters (2006), which involves nothing less than a quest for the Golden Fleece (famously sought by Jason and the Argonauts). The show has had some fun actors in minor mythic roles, such as Jason Mantzoukas as Dionysus and Lin-Manuel Miranda as Hermes; this time around, Kate McKinnon will appear as love goddess Aphrodite.

David Rapp is the senior Indie editor.