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In fact, there's no reason to think Dre's studio schedule has slowed at all.
For example, students who graduate from the film school could find work in the nearby Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studio, scheduled to open by early 2013.
A handful of star-heavy dramas have still slugged their way onto major studio schedules for the awards cycle that will begin in earnest with the opening of the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 9.
By 2010, pressure to generate international sales, which now account for about 70 percent of Hollywood's worldwide ticket revenue, had pushed the simple portrayal of American lives almost completely off the big studio schedules in May, June and July.
Every so often Bill Laswell emerges from his mightily prolific studio schedule -- mixing and layering all kinds of jazz, world and electronic music -- to strap on his bass and start riffing.
The film — and profane progeny, from 1999's "American Pie" to last year's "Superbad" — have proved an important counterbalance to the mega-budget tent-pole movies dominating studio schedules.
But it is "End of Watch" that will have to settle Mr. Ayer's personal score with the L.A. cop film, a cinematic form that is fading from studio schedules but still fascinates those who know the city and its ways.
"No one wanted to touch it — they called it 'Redford's fishing movie,' " Mr. Redford said, recalling that it took some wrangling to get that bit of Americana, based on Norman Maclean's novella about his past in Montana, onto a studio schedule, even with Brad Pitt in a lead role.
His film is one in a small cluster of pictures that will try to defy modern economic forces in the movie industry; they will bring realistic stories about recognizable characters in a familiar world to major studio schedules, at the height of the summer blockbuster season.
