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Clint Eastwood
Fox Nation, the streaming service that emerged from the Fox News universe in 2018, has drafted a Hollywood heavy hitter well-known to its core audience. Variety reports that six films from Clint Eastwood will feature on the streamer throughout the month of August, including Dirty Harry, the gritty 1971 movie that marked Eastwood’s debut as hard-bitten San Francisco police detective “Dirty” Harry Callahan. The block of Clint outings as the iconic cop continue with The Enforcer (1976), Sudden Impact (1983), and The Dead Pool (1988) before transitioning with the one-two punch of 1985’s Pale Rider, the elliptical, speculative 1985 Western that returned Eastwood to the genre as both an actor and director, and 1986’s Heartbreak Ridge, where his salty, aging gunnery sergeant whips a bunch of greenhorn Marines into shape before the 1983 invasion of Grenada. (Magnum Force, the second movie of the Dirty Harry series, is not part of this offering.)
While Amazon Prime and Netflix, for example, each feature some Eastwood selections — a smattering of his Sergio Leone westerns for the former, Million Dollar Baby and Space Cowboys for the latter, two more films in which he directed and co-starred — the six Eastwood films Fox Nation is featuring through its licensing agreement with WarnerMedia’s Warner Bros. studio are intended to complement its existing raft of news and lifestyle content relevant to the Fox News audience.
Fox Nation president Jason Klarman told Variety that his outlet is actively engaging with the Hollywood studios to curate more films tailored to Fox Nation subscribers’ interests, and to that end the streamer has another movie block on tap for early 2022. The “Who Can Forget the 80’s” package will include Eastwood in Any Which Way You Can (1980), the Goldie Hawn-in-basic training comedy Private Benjamin (1980), The Outsiders (1983), The Right Stuff (1983), and the mouthy buddy cop thriller Tango & Cash (1989).
Going forward, Fox Nation’s expanded suite of entertainment offerings are set to align with the non-news programs the streamer already features, which include popular reality titles like Duck Dynasty, as well as personality-driven programs, such as a cooking show from Paula Deen and a true crime series featuring Nancy Grace. As the streaming wars continue, Fox wants potential viewers to know that America is streaming on Fox Nation.
