"If a film does not recoup its costs in China, you're not going to make another one," he says.
If the Broadway run ends up lasting three months and does not recoup, he added, "I'll be left in a slight deficit position, but I'll make up for that in licensing".
"If the left as a whole doesn't recoup before the elections on the basis of economic issues alone," Mr. Estévez said, "then they really have no chance of ever ruling".
You don't have to follow the rules that a label does to recoup its investment.
But that doesn't recoup Weiss' initial investment, so he instead got his old friend to do him a favor.
All the failed shows and shows that don't recoup, and we still do it.
Meanwhile, "Tomorrow the Green Grass" didn't recoup its investment, and neither did the group's 1997 album, "Sound of Lies".
That show's multimillion-dollar profits notwithstanding, the last couple of years on Broadway have not been great for Mr. Mackintosh, what with underperforming shows like "Oklahoma!," which closed at a loss in February; "Putting It Together," which opened in 1999 and did not do well; and "Swan Lake," a 1998 critics' darling that did not recoup.
In an article published on The Huffington Post on Monday, Mr. Kaiser, the president of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., wrote that "while the production did not recoup its full investment on Broadway, it did far better financially than I had planned".
While the production did not recoup its full investment on Broadway, it did far better financially than I had planned.
