Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Superman is a 2025 American superhero film written and directed by James Gunn. Based on the DC Comics character Superman, it is the first film in the DC Universe (DCU) and a reboot of the Superman film series.

Las Vegas Sands began construction on an $8BN fourth tower and 15,000-seat arena at Marina Bay Sands, designed by original architect Moshe Safdie.

Europe's largest bedding-plant nursery, Emsflower, planted the first crop in its new 14-hectare greenhouse expansion in Emsbüren, Germany on 15 July 2025, growing its glasshouse footprint that already produces up to 500 million plants a year.

Diriyah Company awarded a branch of China Harbour Engineering the contract to build the Arena Superblock: the multi-purpose indoor Diriyah Arena seating 20,000 spectators, three mixed-use office buildings and a parking facility with more than 4,000 spaces. The arena sits on the edge of historic At-Turaif and anchors the Grand Avenue district alongside Diriyah's Grand Mosque.

Lence Pte agrees to buy between 11% and 20% of AWL Agri Business from Adani Commodities at Rs 275 a share, replacing the December option, while Adani places its other 10.42% with investors.

HMCH's The Legend of Hei 2 opens in Chinese theaters, continuing spirit-cat Hei's adventures as he and fellow disciple Luye uncover a conspiracy threatening the human and spirit worlds.

Ufotable's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle opens in Japanese theaters, the first of a three-part film series adapting the manga's climactic Infinity Castle arc.

A second season of I Parry Everything, the fantasy comedy about a would-be adventurer who can deflect anything, was announced at Earth Star Novels' 10th-anniversary event.

Production I.G's second season of Kaiju No. 8 begins airing, as Kafka Hibino is transferred to the Defense Force's First Division and has to prove a kaiju can fight on humanity's side.

The Lawrence, Argyle, Berwyn and Bryn Mawr stations reopened fully accessible, with elevators and escalators at main entrances, wider platforms, translucent overhead canopies and new public artwork. They sit on 1.3 miles of new track structure, bridges and viaducts built between Lawrence and Bryn Mawr under the CTA's $2.1 billion Red and Purple Modernization Phase One project.

Verizon beat its own plan in the second quarter of 2025, with adjusted EPS of $1.22 and wireless service revenue of $20.9 billion, and raised its full-year guidance for adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EPS and free cash flow.

Hershey told retailers it would raise prices on many chocolate products by a low double-digit percentage, blaming the unprecedented cost of cocoa rather than tariffs. Halloween packs were spared, and it said 75% of its candy would still cost under $4.

OpenAI said Oracle will develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional Stargate data center capacity in the US, taking Stargate past 5 GW under development and over 2 million chips alongside the Abilene site.

Cloud-provider lobby CISPE asked the EU General Court (Case T-503/25) to annul the Commission's 12 July 2023 clearance of Broadcom's acquisition of VMware (Case M.10806). It argues the Commission failed to assess the deal's effects on server virtualisation software, bundling and innovation.

Wit Studio's My Melody & Kuromi begins streaming on Netflix, a Sanrio series following the two rival mascots as they open competing sweet shops in the town of Mariland.

Nestlé's first-half organic growth was 2.9%, almost all of it from pricing with real internal growth of just 0.2%, while reported sales fell 1.8% to CHF 44.2 billion on the strong franc. CEO Laurent Freixe kept 2025 guidance, including an underlying trading margin at or above 16.0%.

Ruling on Ferrero's suit against a Maharashtra maker of fake 'Nutella Ferrero' spread, Justice Saurabh Banerjee declared NUTELLA a well-known mark, barred the counterfeiter for good and awarded Rs 30 lakh in damages.

Hershey's second-quarter net sales jumped 26% to $2.61 billion on Easter timing and early Halloween shipments, but it cut its 2025 earnings outlook to a 36-38% adjusted EPS decline after putting full-year tariff costs at $170-180 million.

Crews finished excavating the huge cavern in a Japanese mountain that will house the Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino observatory, a step toward the detector's planned start of observations.

Chef Nick Goellner opens a Japanese izakaya in Kansas City built around a 20-seat bar that wraps the kitchen, with a deep sake list.

List prices for Enterprise and Unlimited Editions of Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Field Service and some Industries Clouds rose by an average of 6%, while Agentforce add-ons replaced the old Einstein ones.

Germany's competition authority cleared Salesforce's acquisition of sole control of Informatica, finding that rivals such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and IBM already hold similar data assets.

OpenAI releases two open-weight reasoning models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, for teams that want to run and customize models themselves.

Indonesian police named the president director, factory head and quality-control head of Wilmar's rice unit PT Padi Indonesia Maju suspects for selling premium rice under Fortune, Sania, Siip and Sovia that failed quality and weight standards.

Italy's government gave final approval to build a suspension bridge across the Strait of Messina, reviving a project that had stalled for over 50 years.

OpenAI's GPT-5 becomes ChatGPT's new flagship and default model, rolling out to Free, Plus, Pro and Team users.

PLDT's first-half 2025 core income edged up to ₱17.6 billion on a ₱1.1 billion swing at Maya, while full-year capex guidance was cut to ₱63 billion from ₱68-73 billion and the board declared a ₱48 interim dividend.

Plantations and food products drove a 26% jump in pre-tax profit, but core net profit slipped 4% and Kuok Khoon Hong said the full year hinged on Indonesian authorities resolving issues with the group.

Philip Krajeck, of Rolf & Daughters and Folk, opens a calm New American bistro in a former Piggly Wiggly on Dickerson Pike.

The former Horton Plaza mall, which Stockdale Capital Partners spent years converting into a 700,000-square-foot office campus, went to lender AllianceBernstein on a $130 million credit bid after a foreclosure auction drew no other bidders. Stockdale owed $384.3 million.

Salesforce signed a deal for Regrello, an AI-native tool that turns documents and business data into agentic workflows, to add agentic process automation to Agentforce and Slack.

Private equity investor Bill Chisholm took control of the 18-time NBA champions from Wyc Grousbeck's group, which bought the team in 2002 for $360 million. The deal valued the Celtics at more than $6.1 billion, a record for an American pro sports team, with full control due by 2028.

The Konektadong Pinoy Act became law on 24 August 2025 without President Marcos's signature, letting new data-transmission players build and run networks without a congressional franchise. PLDT had urged a veto and said it may challenge the law's constitutionality in court.

Prosecutors charged former TSMC engineer Chen Li-ming, by then at Tokyo Electron's Taiwan unit, and two serving TSMC engineers with stealing 2nm trade secrets, seeking 14, 9 and 7 years in Taiwan's first indictment for theft of a national core key technology.

Glucose-monitor maker Dexcom told California it would lay off 319 workers at its Sequence Drive headquarters campus, effective 3 November 2025, as it keeps moving manufacturing from San Diego to Mesa, Arizona. The company said 196 of the jobs were in San Diego.

The border plant that treats Tijuana sewage went from 25 to 35 million gallons a day, a 40% jump finished in 100 days instead of the two years first planned.

A software issue knocked Verizon Wireless customers from California to Florida into SOS mode for much of Saturday afternoon, with Downdetector reports peaking near 23,000 before service was restored by midnight.

David and Anna Posey open a French bistro with a Chicago accent on West Randolph Street, run day to day by chef de cuisine Tayler Ploshehanski.

Zak Pelaccio, of Manhattan's Fatty Crab, opens a Southeast Asian restaurant in a former Santa Fe furniture workshop, with 24-year-old Stella Achenbach running the kitchen.

Hines finished the 51-storey, 677-foot tower built on air rights over South Station, adding 680,000 square feet of offices, Ritz-Carlton branded residences on the upper floors and an expanded bus terminal beneath it. Construction ran five years from a start in January 2020, after the scheme had sat stalled since its 2008 approval.

Nestlé's board dismissed Laurent Freixe with immediate effect after an investigation found an undisclosed romantic relationship with a direct subordinate, one year into his tenure. Nespresso chief Philipp Navratil, a Nestlé lifer who joined as an internal auditor in 2001, took over as CEO.

Salesforce told California it would permanently cut 262 jobs at Salesforce Tower, days after Marc Benioff said AI had let him shrink customer support from 9,000 people to about 5,000.

Zaha Hadid Architects' 60,000-seat Xi'an International Football Center hosted its first official match, years after construction began in a city better known for ancient dynasties than football.

Judge Allison Burroughs ruled that freezing and terminating nearly $2.2 billion in federal research grants to Harvard violated the First Amendment and Title VI, and barred further retaliatory cuts.