Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Hershey's Advancing Agility & Automation Initiative, which cut jobs and automated processes from 2024, is due to finish at the end of 2026 at a cost of $200-250 million. It is expected to leave about $400 million of annual savings.

The 35th Las Vegas Bowl puts an SEC team against a Big Ten, Big 12, ACC or Oregon State/Washington State opponent at 12:45 p.m. on 31 December, live on ESPN.

PLDT's ePLDT plans to sell up to 49% of VITRO REIT, eight data centres with about 24 MW, for up to ₱24.2 billion at up to ₱11 a share; the 12 October listing has been pushed back while cornerstone investors are lined up.

Quebec's new Île-aux-Tourtes bridge on Autoroute 40 between Senneville and Vaudreuil-Dorion is scheduled to open its first structure in late 2026 with five dynamically managed lanes. The second structure follows in 2027.

The Global Fund expects generic lenacapavir, the twice-yearly HIV prevention injection, to enter the market by the end of 2026, with 24 countries worldwide due to receive it by then. Nearly 100,000 people in nine high-burden African countries had received it by mid-August 2026.

The 4,270 m twin-tube Rastatt railway tunnel, built after the 2017 tunnel-boring-machine failure, is planned to enter service at the end of 2026. Deutsche Bahn energised its overhead lines in June 2026 as preparation.

Phase 1 of Pure Water San Diego, a roughly $1.5 billion program, is due to start sending purified recycled water through Miramar Reservoir into the drinking supply near the end of 2026. It starts at about 7.5 million gallons a day and ramps to 30 million once the Morena Pump Station comes on line.

WHO South-East Asia's target to eliminate measles and rubella by 2026 reaches its deadline on 31 December, after being moved from 2020 to 2023 to 2026. The Regional Verification Commission warned in June that the target "may not be achieved" as outbreaks rise in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Thailand and Maldives.

Science SARU's third season of Dan Da Dan, adapting Yukinobu Tatsu's occult-meets-alien action comedy manga, is set to premiere in 2027.

Lord of Mysteries Season 2, the "Faceless" arc, brings B.CMAY PICTURES' hit donghua back as Klein, now working as detective Sherlock Moriarty, runs into spies and ancient ruins.

Nexus's The Eminence in Shadow: Lost Echoes, a theatrical sequel to the anime's second season based on Daisuke Aizawa's light novels, is set to open in Japan in 2027.