Cobie Smulders Pulling Down $US100k A Week

· When you’re done looking up her name, feel free to discuss the fact that Cobie Smulders and her castmates now make between $US90,000 – $US120,000 per episode of How I Met Your Mother. [THR]

· Undettered by the economy, studios are meeting NBC’s exorbitant $US3 million-per-half-minute Super Bowl ad fees to unveil tentpole releases like Up, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and G.I. Joe. [Variety]
· Acquitted of murder, Sopranos and A Bronx Tale star Lillo Brancato Jr. still got ten years for burglary. [Variety]
· After the disaster that was last year’s strike-and-Billy Bush-afflicted Golden Globes, the International Hollywood Junket Whores Association’s annual kudosfest is back in swinging form. Who cares about world misery and the economy: Bring on the swag and 20-foot-high chocolatefalls! [THR]