Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

James Cameron's Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third Avatar film, opened in US theaters on 19 December 2025 and introduced the Mangkwan Na'vi clan. It grossed about US$1.49 billion worldwide.

Kia confirmed US pricing for the 2026 K4 Hatchback on 19 December 2025: $24,890 for the 147-hp EX, $25,890 for the GT-Line and $28,790 for the 190-hp GT-Line Turbo, all before a $1,195 destination fee.

The Kaiju No. 8 anime will adapt the manga's ending in a Final Chapter, announced with a teaser promo on the franchise's Jump Festa 2026 stage.

MAPPA's follow-up to the Reze Arc film was unveiled at Jump Festa '26, confirming that Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man would continue on screen with an adaptation of the manga's Assassins arc.

The Central Kowloon Route opens to traffic as the Central Kowloon Bypass (Yau Ma Tei Section), a 4.7 km dual three-lane trunk road that is about 3.9 km tunnel, running beneath densely built Kowloon from the Yau Ma Tei Interchange in West Kowloon to the Kai Tak Development Area and Kowloon Bay in the east. It forms the western half of Route 6.

The FDA approved Abbott's Volt pulsed field ablation system, a balloon-in-basket catheter that maps, paces and ablates, to treat paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation. The approval rested on the 392-patient VOLT-AF IDE study at 40 centers.

On 22 December 2025 the US FDA approved the once-daily Wegovy pill (oral semaglutide 25 mg), the first oral GLP-1 for weight management, which showed 16.6% mean weight loss in the OASIS 4 trial.

The U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued an emergency special permit for segments 324 and 325 of the interstate Santa Ynez Pipeline System, approving Sable Offshore's enhanced integrity management practices and setting operational conditions. It is a step toward restarting the onshore transportation that has kept Sable's restarted Santa Ynez Unit oil in storage rather than on sale.

MiniMax releases M2.1, an open-weight 230B-parameter mixture-of-experts coding and agent model that activates 10B parameters and scores 74.0 on SWE-bench Verified and 88.6 on its new VIBE full-stack benchmark.

The Undead Unluck anime confirmed a second season the same night its Winter Arc special aired, with a new illustration from creator Yoshifumi Tozuka.

Cloud Art streams Sword of Coming 2nd Season, continuing the donghua about an ordinary boy who splits the sky with a single sword and becomes a legendary swordsman after felling a peerless rival.

A-Lin achieved the #1 music ranking of 2026 on Taiwan's KKBOX Mandarin Yearly Cumulative Singles Chart. KKBOX's Mandarin yearly cumulative singles chart ranked "幸福在歌唱 (Happiness Is Singing)" by A-Lin No. 1 for the period 2025-12-31 to 2026-10-15. The 2026 chart is still accumulating (period runs to 2026-10-15), so this is the leader to date, not a final year-end result.

Pure Arts' Beyond Time's Gaze begins release, a Chinese donghua following Xu Qing, the sole survivor of the ruined Nanhuang Continent, as a mysterious purple crystal starts him on a cultivation journey and into the Thunder Squad's ranks.

China's Eastern Theater Command sent ground, naval, air and rocket forces to encircle Taiwan in two days of blockade and live-fire drills, its eighth major exercise around the island since 2022, after a US arms sale worth over $11 billion.

Founder Chip Wilson nominates three directors - ex-On co-CEO Marc Maurer, ex-ESPN marketing chief Laura Gentile and ex-Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg - for the 2026 annual meeting and proposes declassifying Lululemon's board.

The integrated transport hub at the Beijing City Sub-centre, under Tongyun Subdistrict in Tongzhou District, took its first passengers on the Beijing-Tangshan and Beijing-Binhai intercity railways, with an interchange to Subway Line 6 at Beiyunhedong. Construction of the hub started on 30 November 2019.

Saks Global failed to make a bond interest payment of more than $100 million that was due on 30 December 2025, entering a grace period while it negotiated with creditors, just under five months after its last debt restructuring.

Iraq's Al Faw Grand Port, a deep-water container port on its only stretch of coastline, is aiming to commission its first phase, positioning the country as a new global shipping hub.

A-1 Pictures' Kaguya-sama: Love is War -Stairway to Adulthood- premieres as a TV special, revisiting Kaguya Shinomiya's memories of her Shuchiin Academy student council days with Miyuki Shirogane.