Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

TSMC reports third-quarter 2026 results and gives its fourth-quarter outlook at its earnings conference on Thursday 15 October at 2 p.m. Taiwan time, against its own guidance of US$44.6-45.8 billion in revenue and a 65-67% gross margin.

Salesforce brings the best of Dreamforce 2026 to ExCeL London for a free one-day show of Agentforce, Data 360 and Slack demos, customer talks and an opening keynote.

Legendary Pictures' live-action reboot of the fighting-game franchise, directed by Kitao Sakurai, brings together a stacked ensemble cast including Jason Momoa and 50 Cent.

Tulsa King follows New York mafia capo Dwight "The General" Manfredi, just after he is released from prison after 25 years and unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a "crew" from a group of unlikely characters, to help him establish a new criminal empire in a place that, to him, might as well be another planet. The premiere, "W.W.D.D.": As Dwight leads his crew toward legitimacy\u2014striking deals and expanding their empire\u2014his world abruptly fractures. Season premiere. Season 4 starts on Paramount+.

The 146,000-square-metre building in Expo Culture Park, designed by ECADI with Snohetta as a spiralling Chinese folding fan, holds the 2,000-seat Harmony Hall, the 1,200-seat Soar Theatre and the 1,000-seat Open Stage, 4,200 seats in all. The opening season runs 47 productions and 82 performances through 20 February 2027.

Game 1 of the best-of-seven 2026 WNBA Finals, the first under the league's new labor deal, is set for Saturday 17 October on NBC, with a Game 7 if needed on 31 October.

The Antarctic fisheries commission meets in Hobart from 19 to 30 October 2026 to set conservation measures for the 2026/27 season, after two straight early closures of the krill fishery.

MMX is a Japanese scientific mission to land on Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars, to collect samples before bringing them back to Earth. The mission includes a small French/German rover to explore the surface of Phobos. Lifts off from Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan to Mars Orbit.

尚公主 (Shang Gong Zhu, "Tigers Sniff the Rose") is Tencent Video's 40-episode period romance of court intrigue, reuniting Meng Ziyi (孟子义) as Princess Mu Wanyao and Li Yunrui (李昀锐) as the low-born strategist Yan Shang for their third drama together. Adapted from Yi Ren Kui Kui's novel, it began filming at Hengdian on 31 August 2025 and has passed review. It is widely reported as tentatively set for 20 October 2026, but Tencent has not announced a date, so the premiere shown here is an estimate.

Northrop Grumman releases its third-quarter 2026 results before the market opens on Tuesday 20 October 2026 and hosts an audio webcast at 9:30 a.m. ET, after a second quarter that took its backlog to a record $104.7 billion.

The American Film Institute's festival runs five days of premieres in Hollywood, opening on 21 October with the US premiere of Laika's stop-motion feature Wildwood.

Tesla is expected to post its third-quarter 2026 financial results after the market close and hold its live Q&A webcast at 4:30 p.m. Central, most likely on Wednesday 21 October; the date is announced in the Q3 deliveries release.

Lockheed Martin's third-quarter 2026 results are expected around 22 October 2026, the next release after July's record-backlog quarter; the company has not yet announced the date.

The Mercury Prize for the best British or Irish album of the year is awarded at Newcastle's Utilita Arena, from a shortlist of 12 including Paul McCartney, RAYE, Olivia Dean, Dave, Florence + The Machine and Suede.