Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Aldi's final 15 Danish stores, on Funen and in southern Jutland, closed by 30 November 2023 after a closing-down sale, ending the discounter's 46 years in Denmark and handing the shops and staff to Rema 1000.

CloverWorks' Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid opens in Japanese theaters, the latest film in the Seishun Buta Yarou series as Sakuta Azusagawa confronts a new bout of 'puberty syndrome' tied to his girlfriend Mai's estranged family history.

Mexico inaugurated the first operating section of the Tren Maya, a roughly $10BN, 1,500km railway looping the Yucatan Peninsula that had drawn years of backlash from environmentalists and indigenous communities.

Vuori's second New York City store, 3,200 sq ft at 1153 Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side, opened to the public on 15 December 2023 after an invitation-only opening the week before.

Bhutan's king announced Gelephu Mindfulness City, a special administrative economic zone of at least 2,500 km2 in the country's south, designed around Buddhist and Gross National Happiness values rather than a typical skyline.

The Surat Diamond Bourse in India took the title of world's largest office building from the Pentagon, built entirely to house the city's diamond-cutting and polishing trade.

The Faroe Islands opened the Sandoyartunnilin, an 10.8km subsea tunnel linking Streymoy to the island of Sandoy, replacing a ferry crossing that could take an hour or more.

Dan Dao Zhizun is a long-running Chinese cultivation-fantasy donghua from Ruo Hong Culture that has aired new episodes continuously since late 2023. Like most entries in the genre, it follows a rising alchemist-cultivator's climb through a hierarchy of sects and realms, building on a large episode count typical of the format's serialized, web-novel-driven pacing.

The MSG Sphere is the largest spherical building in the world, providing Las Vegas' No. 1 immersive show experience. MSG Sphere interior screen measures 19,000 by 13,500 pixels covering a space that is more than three football pitches. It is 100 times crisper and more detailed than the best world-class HD TVs in the market.

Delicious in Dungeon begins its TV broadcast, an adventure-comedy from Studio TRIGGER in which a party of adventurers cooks and eats the monsters they encounter while descending a dungeon to rescue a devoured companion.

Shin-Ei Animation's second season of The Dangers in My Heart begins airing, continuing the slow-burn romance between self-styled dark-hearted Kyoutarou Ichikawa and his classmate Anna Yamada.

Madison Square Garden Entertainment pulled the plug on its planned Stratford "Sphere" after years of opposition over light pollution and a rejected planning application.

The Beekeeper is a 2024 action thriller film produced and directed by David Ayer and written by Kurt Wimmer. It stars Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Josh Hutcherson, Bobby Naderi, Minnie Driver, Phylicia Rashad, and Jeremy Irons.

Kingdom Season 5 continues Qin's war of unification, following commander Shin and the Fei Xin force through the campaign's next escalation as the historical epic advances toward China's unification.

Alo Yoga named Blackpink's Jisoo the face of its spring 2024 collection, her first campaign for the brand and the start of a partnership that later produced her own sneakers.

Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas, the largest cruise ship ever built, entered service out of Miami after roughly two and a half years of construction in Finland.

Coupang, the Korean e-commerce giant, completed its purchase of the assets of the collapsed online luxury platform Farfetch, providing $500 million of capital that rescued the business after financial troubles had forced Farfetch's delisting weeks earlier.

H&M Group's board appointed Daniel Ervér, the 18-year company veteran running its flagship H&M brand, as president and chief executive, succeeding Helena Helmersson, who stepped down after four years in the role.

A two-year, AUD $125M rail overhaul at Melbourne's Swanson Dock wrapped up, adding a new terminal so more shipping containers move by train instead of truck.

Aldi Nord said it would close two regional companies, with their warehouses and offices, at the 2024/25 year end and hand their 146 stores to neighbouring regions; the admin and logistics staff lose their workplaces.

Nutella opens a year of celebrations for its 60th birthday on World Nutella Day 2024, with limited-edition character jars and a global #GiveANutellaSmile campaign.

Chanel opened a two-story, 3,200-square-foot boutique dedicated entirely to Watches and Fine Jewellery at 730 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan's landmark 1921 Crown Building, its first store of this kind in the United States.

Dubai's One Za'abeel opened to the public, its twin towers joined by The Link, a 230-metre skybridge that went on to set the Guinness World Record for longest cantilevered building.

Ferrara's Nerds makes its Super Bowl debut in Super Bowl LVIII with a Flashdance-inspired spot introducing a Nerds Gummy Clusters character, with Addison Rae.

Red Dog Culture House streams The Girl Downstairs SP, a bonus episode of the webtoon-adapted donghua The Girl Downstairs, revisiting ex-celebrity Du-Na and her downstairs neighbor Won-Jun.

Blank-check company Flame Acquisition merged with Sable Offshore and, the same day, bought ExxonMobil's three Santa Ynez Unit platforms, the Las Flores Canyon plant and the pipeline behind the 2015 Refugio spill, financed by a $625 million Exxon term loan. The new NYSE-listed Sable set out to restart production shut in since 2015.

Ferrero's turnover jumped 20.7% to EUR 17 billion in the year to 31 August 2023, boosted by the Wells Enterprises ice-cream deal; plants rose from 32 to 37 and staff to 47,212.

Production I.G's HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle opens in Japanese theaters, adapting the Haikyu!! manga's climactic Spring Nationals showdown between Karasuno High and rival powerhouse Nekoma High.

Alabama's Supreme Court held that frozen IVF embryos count as children under the state's 1872 Wrongful Death of a Minor Act, letting couples sue a Mobile clinic whose embryos were destroyed and pushing clinics to pause IVF.

Alo Yoga's first UAE store, run with franchise partner Alshaya Group: an 833 m² flagship in The Dubai Mall with an organic beverage bar and a yoga terrace.

Emaar restarted work on the long-stalled Dubai Creek Tower after redesigning it to stand shorter than the Burj Khalifa.

Meeting in Congress at Versailles on 4 March 2024, France's deputies and senators voted 780 to 72 to add women's guaranteed freedom to have an abortion to the Constitution, the first country to do so.

Anthropic releases Claude 3 Opus, the most capable of its new Claude 3 models, which it says beats GPT-4 and Gemini 1.0 Ultra on most common benchmarks and brings image understanding to Claude for the first time.

Governor Kay Ivey signed SB159, shielding IVF patients, clinics and suppliers from lawsuits and prosecution over damaged or destroyed embryos, three weeks after the LePage ruling halted treatment.

Mumbai opened the first phase of its Coastal Road, an eight-lane highway built on reclaimed land and sea-facing tunnels along the Arabian Sea.

Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, the fastest and cheapest Claude 3 model at $0.25 per million input tokens, able to read about 30 pages of text per second, nine days after announcing it with Opus and Sonnet.

The French National Assembly unanimously adopted, in first reading, a bill to curb "ultra-fast fashion" on 14 March 2024. The bill bans advertising for the cheapest, most disposable garments and creates a bonus-malus system funding penalties on the least sustainable clothing sellers.

Tina Cavalleri, Mark Glinoga and Mengyao Yang filed a proposed antitrust class action in San Francisco federal court, accusing Hermès of forcing customers to buy other Hermès products before it will sell them a Birkin or Kelly bag.

Egypt's 93,000-seat New Administrative Capital Stadium opened as the centrepiece of an Olympic City the country hopes will support a first-ever African bid to host the Games.

Aston Martin named Adrian Hallmark, chairman and chief executive of Bentley Motors since 2018, as its new chief executive, succeeding Amedeo Felisa no later than 1 October 2024.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is a 2024 American monster film directed and co-written by Adam Wingard. Produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros.

The Francis Scott Key Bridge, a 2.6km truss bridge carrying I-695 over Baltimore's Patapsco River since 1977, collapsed after being struck by a container ship, killing several construction workers.

The founder of FTX was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 25 years in prison and ordered to forfeit more than $11bn, four months after a jury convicted him on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy over the theft of customer deposits from the cryptocurrency exchange.

Valentino announced Alessandro Michele, who had spent eight years as Gucci's creative director before leaving in late 2022, as its new creative director, succeeding Pierpaolo Piccioli after his 25-year run at the house.

China removed the anti-dumping and countervailing duties of up to 220% that had shut Australian bottled wine out of its market since 2020, effective 29 March 2024; Australia's wine exports to China had been worth A$1.1 billion in 2019.

Cloud Art's donghua adaptation Zhu Xian returns for a second season, continuing its wuxia-fantasy story of a young disciple caught between rival martial sects amid a war for control of a legendary sword.

Sound! Euphonium 3 follows Kumiko Oumae's final year at Kitauji High School, now band president, as she pushes the more than 90-member concert band toward the nationals gold it has long chased.

The TV anime of Miraijin A's reincarnation fantasy premieres from studio MOTHER, following Ars Louvent as he uses his Appraisal skill to recruit talented retainers for his family's small territory.

The second cour of Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2 begins airing, as Rudeus Greyrat and Sylphiette hold their wedding party and Rudeus faces what his new life asks of him.