Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The 2026 Festival of Speed ran 9-12 July at Goodwood House under the theme The Rivals - Epic Racing Duels, with Singer's central sculpture, the 1966 Ford GT40 Mk IIs reunited and Romain Dumas winning the Shoot-Out.

Kylian Mbappé missed a penalty, then scored his eighth goal of the tournament and set up Ousmane Dembélé as France beat Morocco 2-0 before 63,811 in Foxborough. It was the last of the seven 2026 World Cup matches at Gillette Stadium, played as Boston Stadium.

The Spurs announced a multi-year extension for Victor Wembanyama; ESPN reported five years and $252 million, the rookie-scale maximum with a fifth-year player option, roughly $50 million less than the supermax he could have taken.

Substitute Mikel Merino's 88th-minute rebound sent Spain past Belgium and into the World Cup semifinals in the last match of the tournament in Los Angeles.

Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Soccer (功夫女足), a spiritual successor to Shaolin Soccer, opened in China on 11 July 2026 with CN¥260.6 million on day one. It is the second-highest-grossing film of 2026.

Based on the manga of the same name and animated by LidenFilms, the series reimagines a defeated Demon King, Ryuūsei Narukami, living out a second life as a reclusive shut-in — until Meteor Hanaori, the hero who once struck him down, resurfaces reincarnated as an ordinary high schooler. Trying to turn his life around, Ryuūsei takes a teaching job that happens to land him at her school, and old rivalry curdles into an unlikely spark between former enemies.

B&W's board authorised buying back up to $50 million of its common stock, starting after its second-quarter 10-Q, with no expiry date and subject to its lenders. The same day it called its last $61.4 million of 2026 notes for redemption.

The first Eurofighter Typhoon built for Germany's 20-jet Quadriga order, serial 34+02, flew for about an hour before returning safely to Airbus's Manching site.

Mikel Oyarzabal converted a penalty and Pedro Porro added a second as Spain beat France to reach the World Cup final.

The National Bureau of Statistics said on 15 July 2026 that GDP rose 4.7% year on year in the first half, with second-quarter growth slowing to 4.3% from 5.0% in the first quarter.

Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, its first model and an open-weights 975B-parameter mixture-of-experts system (41B active) with a 1M-token context that reasons over text, images and audio, built as a base for fine-tuning.

On 16 July 2026 the FDA approved Merck's Lipfendra (enlicitide), a once-daily 20 mg tablet and the first oral PCSK9 inhibitor, to lower LDL cholesterol in adults with hypercholesterolemia.

Abbott posted second-quarter sales of $12.59 billion, up 13.0% reported and 4.8% comparable, and adjusted EPS of $1.31, and raised its 2026 adjusted EPS guidance to $5.45 to $5.60.