Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The Republican-era opera drama Gladiator in the Theater (云雀叫天录), starring Zhang Yishan, premiered on Mango TV on 14 September 2026. It follows an unremarkable teenager who rises from opera student to a star of Beijing's theatres.

Twenty-five months after its groundbreaking, ESMC - TSMC's joint venture with Bosch, Infineon and NXP - celebrated the topping-out of its roughly EUR 10 billion chip fab in Dresden, TSMC's first in Europe. The shell is finished; cleanroom fit-out follows, with the first process tools due in the second half of 2027.

Widow's Bay took six awards on the night and a record 14 for a comedy in one year, while The Pitt won Outstanding Drama Series again, at the Peacock Theater hosted by Mariska Hargitay.

JDK 27 shipped with nine JEPs led by hybrid post-quantum key exchange for TLS 1.3 and G1 as the default garbage collector everywhere, plus JavaFX 27 and Helidon 27.

Alo's second luxury bag collection adds a new Unwind Cinch silhouette, laser-cut leather mesh versions and its first wallets and card holders.

Judge Maryellen Noreika heard two days of evidence, without a jury, on whether the five-year royalty-free provisions in the Qualcomm-Arm contracts can be enforced, ahead of the jury trial of Qualcomm's suit against Arm.