Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

After seven years, Calvin McDonald will leave as CEO on 31 January 2026; CFO Meghan Frank and president André Maestrini become interim co-CEOs and chair Marti Morfitt becomes executive chair while the board searches for a successor.

International revenue jumped 33% while the Americas slipped 2%; Lululemon raised its full-year outlook and added $1.0 billion to its buyback, and the shares rose more than 9% the next day.

Mayor Daniel Lurie signed the Family Zoning Plan, which allows taller, denser housing along transit and commercial corridors, mostly in the north and west of the city, to plan for about 36,000 more homes ahead of a 31 January 2026 state deadline.

Disney+ premiered The End of an Era, a six-episode docuseries on the making of the Eras Tour, alongside The Final Show, a concert film of the tour's last night in Vancouver with the full Tortured Poets Department set.

EU fisheries ministers set 2026 catch limits for the Atlantic, North Sea, Mediterranean and Black Sea, raising anchovy and Norway lobster but cutting sole in the Skagerrak-Kattegat by 44%, while mackerel was left without an agreed total catch.

Chubby Group brought its all-you-can-eat wagyu shabu-shabu chain to San Diego's Convoy District, taking over the former Shancheng Lameizi Hot Pot space. Four tiers run about $45 to $98 a head across 90-minute seatings.

The two sections of the International Boundary and Water Commission committed Mexico to a new Tijuana treatment plant by December 2028 and a Smuggler’s Gulch sediment basin before the 2026-27 rains, on top of the Minute 328 projects.

Oregon opened its commercial Dungeness crab season on 16 December 2025 from Cape Falcon to the California border, 15 days after its 1 December target, while the north coast waited for Washington crab to fill out.

California's DMV adopted a judge's finding that Tesla broke state law by marketing its driver-assist features as 'Autopilot' and 'Full Self-Driving Capability', staying the factory-licence suspension and giving Tesla 60 days to fix its marketing or lose its dealer licence for 30 days.

TI began production at SM1, the first 300mm wafer fab on its site off US-75 at Shepherd Road in Sherman, three and a half years after breaking ground. The site is laid out for up to four connected fabs and is meant to support as many as 3,000 direct jobs; TI is spending more than $60 billion across seven fabs in Texas and Utah.

Salesforce signed a deal for Qualified, maker of the Piper AI SDR agent that turns company websites into conversations that qualify and book inbound leads, to strengthen Agentforce Sales and Marketing.

The FY2026 NDAA (S. 1071) became Public Law 119-60, setting Pentagon policy and authorising funds for fiscal year 2026; it repealed the Caesar Act sanctions on Syria and the 1991 and 2002 Iraq war authorisations and made draft registration automatic.

ByteDance and TikTok signed binding agreements to form TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, with Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX holding 15% each and ByteDance keeping 19.9%, due to close on 22 January 2026.

A Paris judicial court ruled on 19 December 2025 that Shein would not have to suspend its French website for three months, rejecting the government's bid to enforce a shutdown sought after the platform's childlike-sex-doll listings. The court instead ordered Shein to add genuine age verification for adult products.

The Delaware Supreme Court reversed the Court of Chancery's cancellation of Elon Musk's 2018 Tesla stock-option award, worth about $56 billion, awarding the shareholder plaintiff $1 in nominal damages and cutting his lawyers' 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.

A Baltimore City jury awarded Cherie Craft $59.84 million in compensatory and $1.5 billion in punitive damages, finding J&J's talc baby powder exposed her to the asbestos behind her peritoneal mesothelioma - the largest talc verdict for a single plaintiff. J&J said it would appeal.

Apple chief executive Tim Cook, Nike's lead independent director, bought 50,000 Nike Class B shares at a weighted average $58.97 on 22 December 2025, days after Nike's second-quarter report sent the shares down, taking his holding to 105,480 shares.

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.

Alo removes the paywall from its Alo Wellness Club app, formerly the $12-a-month Alo Moves, opening its full library of classes and programmes free to members of its Alo Access loyalty programme.

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.

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.

Right after the Stairway to Adulthood TV special aired, the Kaguya-sama: Love Is War anime announced a theatrical finale built on a new original story by creator Aka Akasaka.