Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The night-time parade, first held in 1851 and the biggest Lunar New Year parade outside Asia, steps off from 2nd and Market at 5:15 p.m. on February 20, 2027, ending with a 268-foot Golden Dragon.

Family Guy follows Peter Griffin the endearingly ignorant dad, and his hilariously offbeat family of middle-class New Englanders in Quahog, RI. Lois is Peter's wife, a stay-at-home mom with no patience for her family's antics. Then there are their kids: 18-year-old Meg is an outcast at school and the Griffin family punching bag; 13-year-old Chris is a socially awkward teen who doesn't have a clue about the opposite sex; and one-year-old Stewie is a diabolically clever baby whose burgeoning sexuality is very much a work in progress. Rounding out the Griffin household is Brian the family dog and a ladies' man who is one step away from AA. Season 25 starts on FOX.

Playground Games' reboot of Fable, directed by Ralph Fulton, arrives on 23 February 2027 for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

Australia's largest airshow returns to Avalon Airport near Geelong: three trade days, then a public weekend of aerobatics and jet displays.

CDC's calendar lists the first ACIP meeting of 2027 for 24-26 February; the committee's spring 2026 meetings were cancelled amid litigation, so the schedule remains subject to change.

PLDT's full-year 2026 results and final dividend, expected in late February 2027 under its 60% payout policy, after guidance for 2026 capex in the mid-₱50 billion range.

Wilmar's full-year 2026 results and final dividend are due after trading in late February 2027, the first full year with India's AWL Agri Business consolidated.

OpenAI switches off 4 models and endpoints on 26 February 2027; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: whisper-1, gpt-4o-transcribe, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe, gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize.

Calvin Harris' first ever Australian headline tour reaches Melbourne, the closing night, six days after Sydney. Four outdoor shows across February 2027, all ticketed through Ticketmaster.

The BRIT Awards return to Manchester's Co-op Live for a second year on Saturday 27 February 2027, live on ITV1 and ITVX, marking 50 years since the first televised BRITs.

A new $2.1 billion enclosed Nissan Stadium is scheduled to hand over to the Tennessee Titans in February 2027, funded largely by public money in a bid to eventually host a Super Bowl.

Iceland's government plans to put a bill permanently banning commercial whaling before the Althing, which would close the legal route for fin whaling despite the five-year licences issued in 2024 and leave Norway and Japan as the only whaling nations.

The GSMA's Mobile World Congress returns to Fira Gran Via for four days, with the organisers expecting more than 100,000 attendees from the connectivity industry.

The game industry's biggest developer gathering, rebranded as a festival, runs five days in San Francisco.

The Federated States of Micronesia holds general elections on 2 March 2027 for its 14-member Congress, including the four state senators elected every four years.

Twelve state attorneys general led by California's Rob Bonta, and separately the Writers Guild of America, get their day in court against Paramount Skydance's $111bn acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin set 12 court days, and the merger is on hold behind the result.

The 2026 VMware Explore on Tour season closes in Sydney on 3-4 March 2027 at the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth on Phillip Street.

The Amelia Concours d'Elegance returns to The Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island for four days in early March.

Seattle's spring pop culture convention fills the Seattle Convention Center for four days of comics, cosplay, gaming and panels.

The Thomas Crown Affair is an upcoming American action romantic heist film directed by Michael B. Jordan and written by Drew Pearce and Jason Hall.

Ten days of motorcycle racing, concerts and street festivals take over Daytona Beach in early March.

ProWein, Messe Düsseldorf's trade-only wine and spirits fair, runs from 7 to 9 March 2027 with exhibitor numbers capped at about 4,000 under new director Frank Schindler's 'Focus. Proximity. Industry.' format.

The Tokyo Marathon, the first World Marathon Major of 2027, runs on Sunday 7 March 2027 for its 20th edition, with entries taken between 24 June and 28 August 2026.

The 71st session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women runs from 8 to 19 March 2027 in New York, with the priority theme of speeding up gender equality under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

More than 1,000 seafood CEOs, investors and analysts gather in Bergen for three days at the North Atlantic Seafood Forum, the industry's largest top-executive conference.

Salesforce's developer conference for developers, admins, architects and IT leaders returns to San Francisco and Salesforce+ on 10-11 March 2027.

The Exorcist: Martyrs is an upcoming American supernatural horror film written and directed by Mike Flanagan. It is the seventh film in The Exorcist franchise.

Bruno Mars brings The Romantic Tour to Auckland's Eden Park with Tyla, DJ Pee .Wee and a Silk Sonic set; the first two of three nights have sold out.

The season opens under the floodlights at Sakhir, and for the first time the opening round is a Sprint weekend.

The 99th Academy Awards air live from the Dolby Theatre on March 14, 2027, hosted by Conan O'Brien, and the ceremony's biggest prize is Best Picture. On 20 September 2026 Kalshi had The Odyssey at 52%, well ahead of The Black Ball at 16% and Dune: Part Three at 11%.

WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization meets on 15-18 March 2027 at WHO headquarters in hybrid format, by invitation only.

The annual festival of technology, film, TV, music and comedy runs seven days, with badges priced from $625 to $1,495.

The FOMC announces its rate decision on the second day of its March 16-17 2027 meeting. The meeting is one of the four in 2027 that comes with a Summary of Economic Projections - the "dot plot" - and a press conference. On 21 September 2026 Kalshi last traded Fed maintains rate 67%, Hike 25bps 27%, Cut 25bps 10%.

Sonic the Hedgehog 4 is an upcoming American action-adventure comedy film based on the Sonic video game series. It is directed by Jeff Fowler.

Russian River Brewing will release its once-a-year triple IPA Pliny the Younger in person, on tap and in bottles, at its Santa Rosa and Windsor brewpubs from 19 March to 1 April 2027.

The $815 million AbbVie Foundation Cancer Pavilion, a seven-storey 575,000-square-foot building north of 57th Street in Hyde Park, is Illinois' first freestanding cancer centre, with 80 inpatient beds, 90 outpatient exam rooms and dedicated imaging, infusion and clinical trial space. It pulls together cancer services currently spread across at least five buildings on the campus.

Round two runs at night along the Red Sea on the fastest street circuit Formula 1 uses.