Four years after Tony Krantz left his TV producing career to focus on feature directing, he is mounting a big push in television with 8 projects set up at various broadcast networks, including a Scruples adaptation at ABC, which he is executive producing with Natalie Portman.

Krantz, who was head of primetime packaging at CAA and CEO of Imagine Television before he embarked on a feature directing career, started building his Flame Ventures into an independent TV production company last year when it sold 5 broadcast projects. With the hire of Reece Pearson as head of development, the company has stepped up its TV efforts, selling 8 projects in the past few weeks. Flame is using an indie model similar to that employed by DreamWorks TV where projects are sold directly to the networks and then laid off at the nets’ affiliated studios.

At ABC, the company has Scruples 2. It is based on the 1978 novel by Krantz’s mother, Beverly Hills novelist Judith Krantz, who also penned a sequel in 1992. Bob Brush and Mel Harris will write the adaptation and exec produce with Natalie Portman, her producing partner Annette Savitch and Krantz. Warner Bros. TV is producing as it has the rights to the property via the 1980 Scruples miniseries starring Lindsay Wagner, which it produced.

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Watch Natalie goof of between scenes with her young co-star Devin Brochu in a special feature from the forthcoming DVD/Blu-ray release of ‘Hesher’, thanks to MovieLine!

I have added many never-before-seen production stills of Natalie’s latest movies: ‘The Other Woman’, ‘Black Swan’, ‘Hesher’, ‘No Strings Attached’, ‘Thor’ and ‘Your Highness’. You can find all these stills by clicking Last additions tab in our gallery or the pictures below!

Natalie is on the cover of September issue of ‘Psychologies’ magazine. You can  see scans in our gallery and read Natalie’s interview below! Natalie talks about one of her latest movies, ‘Love And Other Impossible Pursuits’, her film roles, the stages she’s gone through as an actor and the life lessons she have learned.

One might be forgiven for feeling just a slight pang of envy of Natalie Portman in 2011. She’s just given birth to a healthy baby boy with her ballet choreographer fiance, whom she met on set of Black Swan, for which she won an Oscar. It seems the 30-year-old has ticked pretty much every life-goal box in one calendar year.

Starting her acting career at the tender age of 12, as precocious child assassin Mathilda in Leon, Portman quickly stood out from her peers. By 14, she was starring alongside the likes of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, and yet at 18 she found time to fit in a degree at the prestigious Harvard University, while simultaneously maintaining an intensely private home life.

Now, having won critical acclaim for her portrayal of a striving ballerina in psychological thriller Black Swan, she has expanded her reach yet again, taking on romance, comedy, drama and indie films in the past 12 months and adding production and directing to her already packed CV. And as she takes on the challenge of an unsympathetic mistress who loses her child in Love And Other Impossible Pursuits this month, we ask, what makes Natalie Portman tick?

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We have added over 500 HD screencaptures of Natalie as Jane Foster in ‘Thor’ to our gallery! Enjoy!

Natalie is the face of Dior’s new beauty campaign “Dior Forever”. The campaign is for the Dior Diorskin Forever Compact and DiorSkin Forever Fluid products. The makeup offerings will first hit stores in Asia this September.