‘Citizen Kane’
News mogul and politician William Randolph Hearst is widely believed to be to blame for “Citizen Kane” underperforming during its initial cinema run. Hearst was an inspiration for the movie, and he did everything in his power to bury it even before its release, with theaters refusing to play the film out of fear. “Citizen Kane” initially made a $160,000 loss on its $800,000 budget in 1941.