LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Natalie Portman is joining forces with a former boyfriend of Paris Hilton to provide movies.

The Oscar-nominated actress' manufacturing company, handsomecharlie films, will increase projects with 1821 Pictures, a firm run through Greek delivery heir Paris Latsis.

The 18-month arrangement calls for 1821 to offer overhead budget to handsomecharlie with the opportunity for the 2 firms to co-produce initiatives that pop out of the partnership.

Portman, a favourite to win the best actress Oscar on February 27 for her function as a ballerina in "Black Swan," has been slowly getting into the producing realm. She made her debut as a manufacturer on "Hesher," an indie drama that starred Joseph Gordon-Levitt, produced and starred in the recent field office champ "No Strings Hooked up," and is an govt manufacturer on the family drama "The Other Lady," which IFC Films releases Friday.

Considered one of handsomecharlie's sizzling projects is the variation of "Satisfaction and Prejudice and Zombies." That undertaking is about up Lionsgate and searching for a director. Portman is partnered at handsomecharlie with manufacturer Annette Savitch.

Latsis, who runs 1821 with Terry Douglas, was once engaged to fellow socialite Hilton in 2005. Latsis and Douglas were executive manufacturers at the Cameron Diaz mystery "The Box" and the Ricky Gervais comedy "The Invention of Mendacity," neither of which made a lot of an affect at the box office

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