Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am pens a song entitled “Someday” in Tom Cruise’s latest action film “Knight and Day.” The Black Eyed Peas debuted the song by spinning it at an after-party that followed their concert at London’s O2 Arena last May 27. Related video for the song may be viewed via http://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialKnightandDay.

In the sexy action-comedy “Knight and Day”, Tom Cruise is a covert agent sent on a mission he was never meant to complete, and Cameron Diaz is a woman caught between the agent and those he claims set him up. As their globetrotting adventure erupts into a maze of double-crosses, close escapes and false identities, they come to realize that all they can count on is each other.

Directed by James Mangold (Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma), “Knight and Day” also stars Peter Sarsgaard, Viola Davis, Paul Dano, Maggie Grace, and Marc Blucas.

The Black Eyed Peas – will. i.am, Fergie, apl.de.ap and Taboo — have transcended their vigilant hip-hop roots and have become a global phenomenon, the likes of which the music world has rarely seen. Six-time Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum Interscope recording group The Black Eyed Peas are currently on their The E.N.D. World Tour with their fifth studio album. The E.N.D. is the ‘Black Eyed Peas’ current album with sales of over 2.5 million in the U.S., worldwide sales of more than 7 million copies.

With 2003’s breakthrough album Elephunk, and Fergie’s entry into the lineup, the Peas became international superstars.  The album spun off the worldwide #1 hit “Where Is the Love,” “Shut Up,” “Hey Mama,” and “Let’s Get It Started,” which won the Black Eyed Peas their first Grammy Award, for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. Monkey Business extended and surpassed its predecessor, fueled by the back-to-back chart sensations “Don’t Phunk With My Heart” and “My Humps.”

With worldwide sales in excess of 26 million units and a total of 16 Grammy Award nominations, The Black Eyed Peas are one of the most successful recording groups to date.

“Knight and Day” will open June 24-Thursday in more than 150 theaters in the Phils. from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.

Greed becomes legal in “Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps,” the most anticipated drama-thriller this year directed by Oliver Stone with a plum cast starring Michael Douglas, Josh Brolin, Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon, Frank Langella, Carey Mulligan and Charlie Sheen.

Twenty-three years after the director’s masterpiece “Wall Street,” which became a cultural touchstone for the cutthroat and corrupt practices of the world of finance, this is an eye opener that reveals much of what went on before the financial catastrophe that led to the current global recession. Stone examines how avarice started at the top and trickled down to affect everyone – from shopkeepers to homeowners.

“Wall Street 2” is set right before the meltdown of the world’s financial markets.  While Douglas reprises his Oscar winning role as Gordon Gekko, Brolin plays Bretton James, a powerful billionaire and manipulative investment banker. Brolin, an experienced trader himself tells more of “Wall Street 2” and its implications in today’s financial setting.

Q: Is your character at all like Gordon Gekko?

A:  “I’m representing these guys now on Wall Street  who are very different. With Gekko, you’re talking about a guy who is worth a couple of hundred million dollars. Now with Bretton James and his generation, you’re talking about guys who are worth billions of dollars. It’s a different mentality. It’s a different world.”

Q: Apart from Oliver Stone, what was appealing about the story?

A: “I’ve had my own trading business and I’ve traded for the last four years.  I’ve done all the research that I needed to do in the Wall Street world.  So I was quite prepared.  I know because I’ve felt it on a much more amateur level when I was in front of my four screens so I know what that is like,  feeling the fear and the greed while you’re watching  the charts and the graphs. You are watching every movement and you say: ‘how can I make another buck or make another percent?’  The kids have not eaten and you’ve been up since 5:30 in the morning, and you say, ‘I just need another fifteen minutes, the kids can wait.’  I felt that greed when I was trading and that’s one of the reasons I stopped.    I said, ‘I can’t do this anymore.”

Q: Can you describe your character? Is he a really unscrupulous guy?

A:  “Well, I always try to find the humanity in everybody.  Look, Bretton James got sucked into this universe he is in on Wall Street and he is swimming in the riches of his world. This is Wall Street’s Darth Vader.  He will do anything.  He’s willing to go to any length in order to survive.  His motivation in life is to acquire as much as possible in any way possible.”

Q: How has the financial world changed between the two movies?

A: “Oh my God, I mean, look at what   we are experiencing now. It is the consequence of that greed in the 80s.  We obviously didn’t learn anything from that time. It is monumental compared to what it was like then. In WALL STREET they didn’t talk about investment banks and leveraging or the fact that it started with credit cards and it didn’t stop and there were no regulations, or there weren’t enough regulations. The regulations that existed were circumvented. Look at what has happened. It is so sad.”

One of Hollywood’s most consummate actors, Josh Brolin’s first movie was “The Goonies,” his other early films were “Hollow Man” and “Flirting with Disaster.” His other film credits also include “Grindhouse,” “In the Valley of Elah,” “Mod Squad,” “Nightwatch,” “Best Laid Plans, “Mimic,” “Into the Blue,” “No Country for Old Men” and “American Gangster.”   Brolin was nominated for an Oscar for his role in “Milk,” opposite Sean Penn.

“Wall Street 2” opens very soon in April from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.

From his myriad of notable roles, James Franco (best known as Harry Osborn in “Spiderman” movies) lays bare his feelings of inadequacy as a man the upcoming couples’ comedy “Date Night” starring Steve Carell and Tina Fey.

“Date Night” follows the misadventures of the Fosters couple played by Fey and Carell in their one-of-a-kind date night that went upside down – way upside down.  The Fosters have their weekly “date night” – an attempt at re-experiencing the spice of the dates of yesteryear, involving the same weekly night out at a local tavern.  Exhausted from their jobs and kids, their dates rarely end in fore- or any other kind of play, let alone romance.

In an attempt to take date night off auto-pilot, and hopefully inject a little spice into their lives, Phil decides a change of plans is in order:  take Claire into Manhattan to the city’s hottest new restaurant. The Fosters, however, don’t have reservations.  Hoping to be seated sometime before the clock strikes twelve, they steal a no-show couple’s reservations.  Phil and Claire are now the Tripplehorns.

The real Tripplehorns, however, it turns out, are a thieving couple who are being hunted down by a pair of corrupt cops for having stolen property from some very dangerous people.  Forced on the run before they’ve even finished their risotto, Phil and Claire soon realize that their play-date-for-parents has gone hilariously awry, as they embark on a wild and dangerous series of crazy adventures to save their lives. . . and their marriage.

Portraying the “real” Tripplehorns –a drug dealer named Taste and his wacky stripper girlfriend, Whippit – are James Franco and model-turned actress Mila Kunis.  Despite their different life circumstances, the pair has much in common with the Fosters, being in the same spot in their relationship as their clean-cut counterparts. Notes screenwriter Josh Klausner: “Whether you’re a drug dealer or a suburban husband, you still feel the pangs of ‘You never look at me the way you used to’ and ‘You don’t have time for me.’  What the two couples are going through is exactly the same,” making the exchanges between the two couples both hilarious and poignant at the same time.

Kunis describes the pair as “very passionate – when they’re angry, they’re very angry, and when they’re happy, they’re madly in love.”  Whippit, specifically, she describes as a “psycho, who is very up and down.  She goes through three different emotions within two and a half script pages.”

The name “Taste,” Franco says, is left over from an earlier concept of the character – a 6 ft. 7 in. bald man with “TASTE” tattooed on his forehead.  “So when they asked me to be in the movie, I said, ‘Well, I’m certainly not that.’”  The character’s description was then rewritten, but the name stuck.  “I was up for facial tattoos, too,” Franco says with a laugh.  “We just went for the cheesy ‘Grim Reaper.’”

Rated PG-13 by the MTRCB, “Date Night” is a couples’ day out cinema treat on April 9 from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.