Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Bruno Mars begins the Japan leg of The Romantic Tour with the first of two nights at Vantelin Dome Nagoya, the start of 12 dome shows in six cities that Billboard Japan calls one of the largest dome tours ever.

Tokyo's Toyosu Market reopens after the New Year break with its first tuna auction of 2027, a year after a bluefin from Oma set the JPY 510.3 million record.

The Consumer Technology Association's annual show returns to Las Vegas for four days, with Stellantis chief executive Antonio Filosa among the keynote speakers. Registration and official hotel booking for CES 2027 are already open.

The BLS Employment Situation report for December 2026, out at 8:30 a.m. ET on January 8, 2027, fixes the unemployment rate the year closes on. On 20 September 2026 Kalshi had U-3 above 4.0% at 81% but only 5% above 5.0%, so traders expected a labour market that has loosened without cracking.

South Korea's biggest ice-fishing festival returns to the frozen Hwacheoncheon stream in Hwacheon for 23 days, 9-31 January 2027, with anglers jigging through the ice for sancheoneo (masu salmon).

The October 2025 Busan truce (a 10-point cut to the US fentanyl tariff, general licences for Chinese rare-earth exports, US soybean purchases, paused port fees) now lapses on January 10, 2027. Scott Bessent announced the two-month extension from November 10 as Xi Jinping landed in Washington.

人间有味 (Ren Jian You Wei, "A Taste of Life") is a 40-episode period drama about Beijing's century-old Wan Tang Ju restaurant, starring Hu Ge as the chef Fan Dacheng and Li Qin, directed by Huang Lei and adapted from Chang Xiaohu's novel 收山. It wrapped in June 2026 and is headed for Hunan TV and Mango TV, with a CCTV run also reported. No date has been announced, so the premiere shown here is an estimate.

The first COP of the BBNJ Agreement meets at UN Headquarters to agree the treaty's institutions and rules, the step before any high-seas marine protected area can be declared.

Children of Blood and Bone is an upcoming American fantasy film directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, who co-wrote the screenplay with Tomi Adeyemi, based on the 2018 novel by Adeyemi. The film stars Thuso Mbedu, Damson Idris, Amandla Stenberg, Tosin Cole, Cynthia Erivo, Lashana Lynch, Zackary Momoh, Richard Mofe-Damijo, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Regina King, Idris Elba, and Viola Davis.

The Beekeeper 2 is an upcoming action thriller film directed by Timo Tjahjanto and written by Umair Aleem. It serves as the sequel to The Beekeeper (2024), with Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Bobby Naderi, Jemma Redgrave, and Jeremy Irons reprising their roles, and Yara Shahidi, Pom Klementieff and Adam Copeland joining.

Nigerians elect a president, vice president, senators and members of the House of Representatives on 16 January 2027, with governorship and state assembly votes following on 6 February.

Set after the fall of the Empire, Ahsoka follows the former Jedi knight Ahsoka Tano as she investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy. Season 2 starts on Disney+.

OpenAI switches off 9 models and endpoints on 20 January 2027; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: gpt-realtime, gpt-audio, gpt-4o-audio, gpt-4o-realtime, gpt-realtime-mini, gpt-audio-mini, gpt-4o-mini-realtime, gpt-4o-mini-audio, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20.

Neuromancer follows a damaged, top-rung super-hacker named Case who is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high stakes crime with his partner Molly, a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes, aiming to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets. Season 1 starts on Apple TV.

San Diego's PGA Tour stop returns to Torrey Pines for the 60th time as The Sentry, with Sentry Insurance as new title sponsor, running 25-30 January 2027 to a Saturday finish.

IDEX, the Middle East's largest defence exhibition, returns with its naval twin NAVDEX to the ADNEC Centre in Abu Dhabi from 25 to 29 January 2027, after a 2025 edition that drew 1,565 exhibitors and 206,000 visitors.

The Orange Bowl and Sugar Bowl semifinal winners meet for college football's national title at Allegiant Stadium on Monday 25 January 2027, kicking off at 4:30 p.m. local on ABC and ESPN.

Kyrgyzstan holds a presidential election on 27 January 2027, brought forward after parliament reset the date. Incumbent Sadyr Japarov has said he will seek a second term.

The FOMC announces its rate decision on the second day of its January 26-27 2027 meeting. On 21 September 2026 Kalshi last traded Fed maintains rate 61%, Hike 25bps 25%, Cut 25bps 8%.

Nintendo revealed Metroid Ravenous, a new 2D entry where Samus fights for survival on a hostile moon after being attacked, alongside a special edition and three amiibo, set for a January 28, 2027 Switch 2 launch.

Bruno Mars ends a six-city, 12-show Japan dome tour, billed as one of the largest ever, with the second of two sold-out nights at Tokyo Dome.

The women's singles final closes the Australian Open's second Saturday on Rod Laver Arena, a day before the men decide theirs. The winner lifts the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup.

云初令 (Yun Chu Ling, "Yunchu's Vengeance") is iQIYI's 24-episode period revenge drama starring Esther Yu (虞书欣) as Yun Chu, a general's daughter betrayed and poisoned by her husband's family who is reborn to take her revenge, with Zhang Yunlong (张云龙) as the prince Chu Yi. It adapts 朝云紫's Fanqie novel and was filmed at Hengdian from 11 January to 22 March 2026. iQIYI has not announced the air date, so the premiere shown here is an estimate.

SynergySP's rom-com Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms returns for a second season in January 2027, with Mona still failing to fluster her stoic classmate.

S-Oil's 9.26 trillion won Shaheen complex at its Onsan refinery in Ulsan, with the world's first commercial Thermal Crude-to-Chemicals unit and a 1.8 million-tonne ethylene cracker, is due to start commercial operation in early 2027. Aramco is S-Oil's largest shareholder.

An eight-storey, 138,000-square-foot building on the former County Family Court site in downtown San Diego, with 125 affordable apartments, a manager's unit and about 4,400 square feet of commercial space. BRIDGE Housing is developing it with the San Diego Housing Commission; VCC Construction finished the framing in July 2026.

Copenhagen Fashion Week's Autumn/Winter 2027 season is scheduled for February 1 to 5, 2027, per the organization's own calendar.

The Moon's shadow touches down at 15:59:35 UT on 2027-02-06, and the annular phase lasts up to 7 minutes 51 seconds along a path 281.5 km wide crossing Chile, Argentina and the Atlantic. A partial eclipse is visible from South America, Antarctica and western and southern Africa.

The 69th Grammy Awards are on Sunday 7 February 2027 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, the first Grammys on ABC since 1972. On 20 September 2026 Kalshi's Album of the Year market led with "you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love" at 37% and Rosalía's "Lux" at 25%.

Aero India, India's biennial aerospace and defence exhibition run by the Ministry of Defence, returns to Air Force Station Yelahanka in Bengaluru for its 16th edition from 8 to 12 February 2027.

Ferrero's consolidated accounts for the year to 31 August 2026, the first full year to include WK Kellogg Co's US cereal business, are expected in mid-February 2027.

Narnia: The Magician's Nephew is an upcoming high fantasy film written for the screen, co-produced, and directed by Greta Gerwig, based on the 1955 novel The Magician's Nephew, the sixth published and first chronological novel in the children's book series The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis.

The Munich Security Conference, the annual gathering of heads of government, defence and foreign ministers at Munich's Hotel Bayerischer Hof, returns for its 2027 edition from 12 to 14 February.

九重天 (Jiu Chong Tian, "Winds Beyond the Wall") is Tencent Video's nine-unit anthology from writer-director Xu Bing (Red, Huan Yan), set in a Fujian tulou stockade between 1911 and 1945, with a rotating all-star cast that reportedly includes Dilraba Dilmurat and Yin Fang; no official cast list has been published. Filming reportedly wrapped in February 2026. No air date has been announced, so the premiere shown here is an estimate.

Bruno Mars begins his 2027 Australia and New Zealand stadium run in Perth, with Tyla and Anderson .Paak as DJ Pee .Wee supporting; demand added a second Perth night.

The NFL's 61st championship game is set for 14 February 2027 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, the ninth Super Bowl staged in greater Los Angeles. On 20 September 2026 Kalshi's futures market was unusually flat: Buffalo and the Los Angeles Rams led at about 12% each, with Baltimore, San Francisco, Kansas City and Seattle bunched at 7-8%.

Whoever plays the SoFi Stadium halftime show on 14 February 2027 is already being traded. Kalshi runs a separate yes/no market per artist, and on 20 September 2026 JAY-Z was the clear favourite, ahead of Miley Cyrus in the mid-30s, Harry Styles around 25% and Justin Bieber around 20%.

Vinexposium's Wine Paris trade fair for wine and spirits runs from 15 to 17 February 2027 at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles; the last edition drew 63,541 trade visitors from 169 countries and 6,537 exhibitors.

Santa Monica Studio's next God of War, directed by Ariel Lawrence, arrives exclusively on PlayStation 5 on 16 February 2027.

Nestlé publishes its 2026 full-year results, the test of its 3% to 4% organic growth guidance and CHF 9 billion free-cash-flow target, a year after the results day on which it proposed its CHF 3.10 dividend for 2025.