Mexican-born filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is named as the director of the planned Lord of the Rings prequels.

Glastonbury: RAIN DOESN’T STOP PLAY
THE Glastonbury festival kicked off under dark grey clouds today in front of a record 180,000 fans.

Arctic Monkeys win US NME award
Arctic Monkeys picked up the title of best international band at the first NME awards USA with The Killers the big winners with two gongs.

Movies: Review: Forgetting Sarah Marshall
As you may have noticed from the ads, this is from ?the guys? who brought us Knocked Up and The Forty Year Old Virgin.

Your Life: Mirror readers who are going to lose: 58 stone and try to gain 15k
Meet the 10 readers, picked from hundreds of entries, competing to be Life Change Champion 2008.Over the next 20 weeks we’ll follow their progress as they go on Eurodiet’s strict eating plan. The finalist whose weight loss changes their lives the most will win 15,000 cash. Here they reveal why they’re so determined to slim.

DVD: Review: I Am Legend
The Omega Man was one of Charlton Heston?s finest films. Without it, there would have been no Dawn Of The Dead or 28 Days Later.

Today’s TV: Criminal Minds
After Mandy Patinkin’s abrupt departure over “creative differences”, this series has been left with a massive hole where its central character Gideon should be.