In the 1970s, with the rise of work by Coppola, Spielberg, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, and others, a new breed of director emerged, leading to a wave of ____________ productions, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star Wars (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982). Because of high marketing and production costs, the major studios have increasingly come to rely on these types of films to keep themselves profitable.