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Fifty-eight never looked so good! Melanie Griffith rocked a bikini on Saturday as she frolicked in a hotel pool in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, just hours before attending Eva Longoria and José Antonio Bastón's intimate wedding. The actress wore a blue, patterned bikini and sunglasses at the upscale Hotel Rodavento as she lounged poolside with friends. Later in the day, she swapped the teeny bikini for an elegant, red gown at the star-studded wedding. The Day Out of Days star flaunted the dolled-up look in a series of Instagram photos taken at the wedding. "Soooo much fun!!! @evalongoria and Pepe Baston,...

Melanie Griffith is happily single and ready to mingle - with the right guy, that is. The actress, who finalized her divorce from Antonio Banderas in December, says she's enjoying new freedom and has an open-minded outlook on her dating life. "It's a whole new world out there!" she tells People in the magazine's new issue. "I'm having a blast. It's all new, I feel like I've got a second chance. It's all really good." While Griffith maintains a positive attitude about meeting someone, she has yet to connect with someone who truly sparks her interest. "I haven't met one...

Melanie Griffith is happily single and ready to mingle - with the right guy, that is. The actress, who finalized her divorce from Antonio Banderas in December, says she's enjoying new freedom and has an open-minded outlook on her dating life. "It's a whole new world out there!" she tells People in the magazine's new issue. "I'm having a blast. It's all new, I feel like I've got a second chance. It's all really good." While Griffith maintains a positive attitude about meeting someone, she has yet to connect with someone who truly sparks her interest. "I haven't met one...

Having grown up in Hollywood under the wing of actress mother Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith knows a thing or two about the pressures surrounding women in the business. Specifically, that in a town obsessed with youth, career opportunities generally decrease with age. "By the time you're 40 in Los Angeles, you're over the hill in the business," Griffith, 58, tells People. "It takes women that are strong enough to actually change the perception." Griffith, who was nominated for an Oscar in 1989 for her performance in the women-in-the-workplace empowerment classic Working Girl, cites Zoe Cassavetes, the director of her latest film, as one example.

Having grown up in Hollywood under the wing of actress mother Tippi Hedron, Melanie Griffith knows a thing or two about the pressures surrounding women in the business. Specifically, that in a town obsessed with youth, career opportunities generally decrease with age. "By the time you're 40 in Los Angeles, you're over the hill in the business," Griffith, 58, tells People. "It takes women that are strong enough to actually change the perception." Griffith, who won an Oscar in 1988 for her performance in the women-in-the-workplace empowerment classic Working Girl, cites Zoe Cassavetes, the director of her latest film, as one example. Day Out of Days...

Let us just avoid comparing Day Out of Days to her father's oeuvre, because that would totally go against this film's profoundly unapologetic feminist spirit. With Broken English (2007) and Day Out of Days, Cassavetes has proven that she has her own voice that deserves to be considered independent of her genetic pedigree; she continues to define herself in an inherently patronizing industry that refuses to support women.

Re-enact the war against Skynet with the new Endoskeleton figure from Sideshow Collectibles and Hot Toys. Also: production details for Dead Rising: Endgame, a trailer for the horror thriller Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla, details on Laurene Landon (Maniac Cop 1 & 2) in Terror Tales, and the Scream Queen Stream.

Terminator: Genisys Figure: From Sideshow Collectibles: “In Terminator: Genisys, Judgment Day has arrived and more than 30 billion human lives have been lost in the attacks by Skynet. Survivors were captured and put into camps for extermination. In 2029, Human Resistance leader John Connor has led a final intense battle against Skynet and its menacing armies of Endoskeletons in order to eliminate the hellish artificial intelligence.

Sideshow and Hot Toys are pleased to officially present the new sixth scale Endoskeleton Collectible Figure from Terminator: Genisys.

The Endoskeleton collectible figure is specially crafted based on the image of the terrifying robot from the film. It features...

At a loss for what to watch this week? From new DVDs and Blu-rays, to what's streaming on Netflix, we've got you covered.

New on DVD and Blu-ray

"Spotlight"

Not-so-bold prediction: "Spotlight" will win Best Picture at the Oscars this Sunday. Maybe. Maybe not. The story of the Boston Globe reporters who exposed widespread child abuse by Catholic priests is a frontrunner to win the top honor. Whether it does win or not, it's out on Blu-ray and DVD on February 23. The discs include "Uncovering the Truth: A Spotlight Team Roundtable," with the real-life Spotlight team reuniting 14 years later for a roundtable discussion about the challenges they faced, and how the shocking story continues to impact the world. You can also watch the bonus featurettes "Spotlight: A Look Inside" and "The State of Journalism."

"The Good Dinosaur"

What if dinosaurs never became extinct and lived at the same time as humans?...

Exclusive: Deal signed following French premiere at Deauville.

Other Angle has acquired world rights to Zoe Cassavetes’ second feature Day Out of Days, following a 40-something, former movie star whose acting career has hit the buffers.

The Paris-based sales company signed the film following its French premiere at the Deauville American Film Festival last week.

French actress Alexia Landeau, who appeared alongside Julie Delpy in 2 Days In Paris and its sequel 2 Days In New York, stars with support from Eddie Izzard, Melanie Griffith and Alessandro Nivola.

Day Out of Days premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June.

“It’s got a great little cast,” said Other Angle co-chief Olivier Albou who will commence sales on the film in Toronto this week.

Full Speed

Another key addition to the Other Angle slate is Full Speed (A Fond), the latest film from Nicolas Benamou, director of the hit French found-footage comedy Babysitting, which drew more...

Days Go By: Cassavetes Returns with Industry Commentary

It’s a tale as old as cinema itself, the dismissive and apathetic attitude towards ageing women in a youth obsessed, commodified film industry. And yet, director Zoe Cassavetes manages to make her own worthwhile entry with Day Out of Days, a project conceived, developed, and co-written with lead actress Alexia Landeau. As impossibly difficult as the landscape is for an actress, the female director suffers comparable obstacles in sustaining a lucrative filmmaking career, and it’s been eight years since Cassavetes made her stunningly eloquent debut with 2007’s Broken English, a film featuring Parker Posey in a career best turn. Whatever the cause of the hiatus (though she’s turned out several short films in the interim), this sophomore feature is a more than welcome return from a director with a particular knack for capturing characters at a difficult crossroads. A...

There's at least one name you might know in the Los Angeles Film Festival's Muse lineup: Zoe Cassavetes, daughter of John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands, who makes her first film since 2007 breakout "Broken English" with "Day Out of Days." The Hollywood-set comedy follows a middling actress, now 40, who struggles to navigate the cutthroat world of Tinseltown while trying to relaunch her career. When given an unusual chance to return to the spotlight, the film takes strange, humiliating turns. "Day Out of Days" premieres Sunday night at Laff. The cast includes Alexia Landeau, Eddie Izzard, Melanie Griffith, Cheyenne Jackson, Alessandro Nivola, Brooke Smith, Bellamy Young, Vincent Kartheiser, Matt Letscher and Josh Stamberg. It is currently seeking Us distribution.

It’s not uncommon to see a filmmaker essentially break out with a hit film (in baseball lingo this wasn’t a home run, but an ernest double) at Sundance, and then, for a multitude of reasons both known or unknown, not strike while the iron is hot. Her Frenchie-Americano rom com featuring quintessential indie starlet Parker Posey was with all its warts and quirks played excellently for a certain demographic and midway this year, she queued up a sophomore film that is a little more grown-up. Featuring Alexia Landeau in the lead with a cast that includes Cheyenne Jackson, Eddie Izzard, Melanie Griffith, Bellamy Young, Vincent Kartheiser, Ione Skye, Alessandro Nivola and Brooke Smith, Day out of Days received some coin in late 2013, and could follow the path to Sundance as her short Men Make Women Crazy Theory (2000) and Broken English before it. Look for a pragmatic and potentially...

While still an active member of what I would call a French-u.S galpal filmmaker clique, the name of Zoe Cassavetes has painfully been absent from the indie scene since her feature film debut Broken English (2007) landed in Park City. Working with the ageism theme, more specifically, the drawbacks of working as an actress in/against/for the Hollywood system that were recently touched upon in Olivier Assayas’ Sils Maria and David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars, Cassavetes muse and co-writer Alexia Landeau (also featured in sister Xan Cassavetes’ Kiss of the Damned) has according to the Deadline folks toplined Cassavetes’ sophomore film. Melanie Griffith, Eddie Izzard, Cheyenne Jackson, Vincent Kartheiser, Alessandro Nivola, Brooke Smith and Bellamy Young also star in the pic that went went into production last month. Produced by Gina Kwon (The Future) and Kate Roughan, look for Day Out Of Days to have a Sundance berth.

Exclusive: After her debut feature Broken English snagged distribution out of Sundance and a pair of Independent Spirit Award nominations, filmmaker Zoe Cassavetes linked up with actress pal Alexia Landeau to write her sophomore feature. Landeau, who appeared in Cassavetes’ first film, the 2000 short Men Make Women Crazy Theory, now leads the Day Out Of Days cast as a 40-year-old actress struggling to make it in the cutthroat business of Hollywood while contending with ever-youthful competition.

Joining Landeau in Day Out Of Days are Melanie Griffith, Eddie Izzard, Cheyenne Jackson, Vincent Kartheiser, Alessandro Nivola, Brooke Smith and Bellamy Young. Cassavetes just wrapped a 17-day shoot on location in La, a production made possible by a successful $60,000 FundAnything crowdfunding campaign that Cassavetes and her fellow producers Gina Kwon (Camp X-Ray, The Future, The Motel, Me and You and Everyone We Know) and Kate Roughan (Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives) launched last year.