Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Scissor Seven premieres, a Chinese ONA following washed-up, hairdressing assassin-for-hire Seven as he stumbles into a citywide struggle for power while trying to recover his lost memory.

This three-episode special bridges The King's Avatar's two seasons by following retired professional gamer Ye Xiu as a spectator rather than a competitor at Glory's All-Star Tournament, watching alongside teammates Tang Rou and Chen Guo. Colored Pencil Animation uses the lower-stakes setting to spotlight the wider cast of professional players introduced across the main series, while Ye Xiu finds his attempt to stay out of the spotlight tested anyway.

Avengers: Infinity War is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the sequel to The Avengers (2012) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), and the 19th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

Network Rail finished its five-year, roughly £1 billion rebuild of London Bridge station as part of the Thameslink Programme, and Prince William officially reopened the unified station on 9 May 2018. The project gave the station a single new concourse and step-free access to every platform.

A blocked diversion tunnel at Colombia's roughly $4 billion Hidroituango hydroelectric project triggered flooding and landslides that forced thousands of people downstream to evacuate.

Ron Howard's Solo: A Star Wars Story, the Han Solo origin film, opened in North America on 25 May 2018.

Earlier this year, a supply chain report said that Apple plans to make all of its iPhones with an OLED screen by 2019. Apple was believed to be preparing to adopt OLED panels for 60 million units of the "iPhone 8" in 2017, and then the company would double the adoption of OLED panels in 2018 before wholly transitioning to OLED-only iPhones in 2019.

A two-story Alo sanctuary at Spring and Mercer Streets with an organic café, a yoga studio and a community space; Alo called it its biggest location yet.

Brad Bird's Incredibles 2 opened in US theaters on 15 June 2018, 14 years after the original, with Elastigirl in the lead role. It grossed more than US$1.2 billion worldwide.

Violet Evergarden: Kitto "Ai" wo Shiru Hi ga Kuru no Darou, a bonus OVA bundled with the TV series' home release, premieres, following Violet as she struggles to ghostwrite a love letter for a famous opera singer.

In the MMORPG Cross Reverie, Takuma Sakamoto is so powerful that he is lauded as the “Demon Lord” by other players. One day, he is summoned to another world – but with the same appearance he had in the game!

Banana Fish premieres, MAPPA's adaptation of Akimi Yoshida's manga following Ash Lynx, a New York gang leader raised by crime boss Dino Golzine, as he crosses paths with visiting Japanese photographer Eiji Okumura.

US Customs began collecting an extra 25 percent on 818 tariff lines worth about $34 billion of Chinese imports on 6 July 2018 — the opening move of the trade war, and the first time since the 1930s that the United States taxed a major trading partner at this scale.

Gintama.: Silver Soul Arc - Second Half War premieres, Bandai Namco Pictures' continuation of the manga's final story arc as the Yorozuya fight on two fronts to stop the Altana Liberation Army's planet-destroying weapon.

The Founder of Diabolism (Mo Dao Zu Shi) begins streaming, a B.CMAY Pictures donghua adapting Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's novel, in which the resurrected cultivator Wei Wuxian confronts the fallout of his past as the Yiling Patriarch.

2018 MacBook Pros feature eighth-generation Intel Core processors. Apple says the 15-inch model is up to 70 percent faster, and the 13-inch model is up to two times faster, than the equivalent 2017 models with seventh-generation Intel Core processors in benchmarks. 15-inch models can now be maxed out with a 2.9GHz six-core Core i9 processor, while the previous generation topped out at a 3.1GHz quad-core Core i7. Quad-core 13-inch models with the Touch Bar are now available, up to 2.7GHz, while 2017 models were dual-core up to 3.5GHz.

The franchise centers on "Starlight" — the song and dance revue troupe loved throughout the world. Karen and Hikari make a promise with each other when they're young that one day they'll stand on that stage together.

The year is 1991 and 6th grader Yaguchi Haruo only has video games to live for. He's not popular in school and he's neither handsome, funny, nice nor even friendly.

A new life begins for Kitahara Iori as he begins his college career near the ocean in Izu city, full of excitement for his new life.

Wit Studio's third season of Attack on Titan begins broadcast, continuing the manga adaptation as Eren and Historia are placed under Levi Squad's protection while a cover-up inside the Walls comes to light.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe will be the first spacecraft to fly directly into the atmosphere of the Sun and explore its brutally hot corona.

The Model 3 will come equipped with a new suite of hardware that supports Tesla's second-generation Autopilot system, Enhanced Autopilot. Enhanced Autopilot will eventually allow the car to match its speed to traffic conditions, automatically change lanes without driver input, merge on and off highways, and park itself.

The third Non Non Biyori film, Vacation, reaches Japanese theaters, an original theatrical entry in the slice-of-life franchise sending the tiny rural school's handful of students on a summer trip to Okinawa.

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas releases in Japanese theaters, a Studio VOLN adaptation of Yoru Sumino's novel about a withdrawn boy who befriends a popular, secretly terminally ill classmate after stumbling on her diary.

On 22 September 2018 Comcast won the UK takeover auction for Sky, its 17.28 pound per share offer beating 21st Century Fox's 15.67 pounds and valuing Sky at about 30.6 billion pounds.

Brain's Base releases the School Babysitters OVA, a manga-bundled bonus episode pairing a slice-of-life story about Ryuuichi's babysitting club with a fairy-tale parody segment starring the same cast.

Studio Shuka's Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Ephemeral Bond opens in Japanese theaters, sending Takashi Natsume and Nyanko-sensei into a new story tied to an old friend's yokai-tinged memories.

8-bit's That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime begins broadcast, an isekai adventure following salaryman Satoru Mikami, killed in Tokyo and reborn as a slime in a fantasy world, as he builds a nation of monsters around him.

CloverWorks' Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai begins airing, a romantic drama in which high schooler Sakuta Azusagawa encounters a famous actress rendered invisible to others by a phenomenon known as puberty syndrome.

A typical morning. The usual music. Their normal lives. The peace these seven girls experience will suddenly be destroyed. By the living dead... zombies.

The fifth TV season of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure begins airing, following Giorno Giovanna as he joins the Italian gang Passione hoping to reshape it from within.

Bonus chibi-parody shorts bundled with the Blu-ray/DVD volumes of Attack on Titan Season 3 begin release, continuing the comedic "Chimi Kyara Gekijou" side-story format used on earlier seasons' home-video specials.

The 55km Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge opened to traffic on 24 October 2018, linking the three Pearl River Delta cities with cable-stayed bridges, artificial islands and an undersea tunnel.

The winner of Eater San Diego's 2017 Restaurant of the Year opened a second outpost in a 2,000-square-foot space at Mira Mesa Shopping Center. It was owner Takashi Endo's 14th ramen shop, and it arrived about four months after the mid-2018 launch Eater had reported.

IHG opened the InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland, an 18-storey hotel built into the walls of a disused quarry with two underwater floors set against a lit aquarium.

Ralph Breaks the Internet is a 2018 American animated comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It reached US theaters on 21 November 2018.

The Apple Watch Series 4 expected this fall will feature a new design and a display that's 15 percent larger, according to the latest reports. Kuo expects the two new Apple Watch models will measure 1.57 inches (39.9mm) and 1.78 inches (45.2mm), compared to the current 38mm and 42mm Apple Watch sizes.

Douluo Dalu 2nd Season, continuing the Chinese donghua adaptation of Tang Jia San Shao's novel, begins release, following young spirit master Tang San's ongoing rise through the world of Douluo Continent.

Meyer Werft handed over the AIDAnova, built at its Papenburg shipyard as the world's first cruise ship able to run on liquefied natural gas, to AIDA Cruises. The 337-metre ship carries up to 6,600 passengers and was assembled from roughly 15 million individual parts.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a 2018 American animated superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman from a screenplay by Phil Lord and Rothman, it is the first animated film in the Spider-Man franchise.

Rob Marshall's Mary Poppins Returns, with Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda, opened in US theaters on 19 December 2018. The sequel to the 1964 film grossed US$362.5 million worldwide.

J.C.Staff airs The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.: Kanketsu-hen, a one-episode special adapting the final chapters of Shuuichi Asou's manga and closing out psychic high-schooler Kusuo Saiki's story.

The part, which would appear in a series of Radeon RX-600-branded graphics cards, will offer a 15 per cent performance boost compared to current RX-500 series cards, which were a minor refresh on 2016's RX-400s.

Developer JDS Development Group and architects SHoP completed the American Copper Buildings on Manhattan's East River in 2018, two leaning towers joined by a three-storey glass skybridge.

Lamborghini unveiled the Huracán Evo, a 640-horsepower V10 supercar built by hand at its Sant'Agata Bolognese factory in Italy.

Studio Bones' Mob Psycho 100 II begins broadcast, continuing the story of psychic middle-schooler Shigeo 'Mob' Kageyama as the group Claw returns to threaten him.

Kinema Citrus's The Rising of the Shield Hero begins broadcast, adapting Aneko Yusagi's light novel about Naofumi Iwatani, summoned to a parallel world as its weakest hero and betrayed early, who rises anyway with only his shield.

CloverWorks' TV adaptation of The Promised Neverland begins airing, following Emma, Norman, and Ray, the brightest orphans at Grace Field House, after they discover the dark truth behind the idyllic orphanage that raised them.

Uesugi Fuutarou, a high school second-year from a poor family, receives a highly appealing offer to work part-time as a tutor... but his students turn out to be girls from his own class! What's more, they're quintuplets...