Before filming began, several of the film's stars, including Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Adam Goldberg, Giovanni Ribisi, and Tom Hanks, endured ten days of " boot camp " training and work on the film set to prepare for their roles.

Before the film's release, a major publicity campaign resulted in photographs and life-sized cardboard figures of Sharon Tate being displayed in cinema foyers throughout the United States ; a concurrent advertising campaign by Coppertone featured Tate.

Before the film's release, Warner showed a preview cut to U. S. President Richard Nixon, who recommended substantial changes, including the removal of two songs that struck him as veiled criticisms of the ongoing Vietnam War.

" The 2005 video game The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge did continue the story of the film, with Capcom's crew of developers going after Tim Burton for advice, and having the collaboration of the film's art director, Deane Taylor.

Before the film's release, the popular band Spike Jones and His City Slickers, noted for their parodies of popular songs of the time, released a version of Oliver Wallace's theme song, " Der Fuehrer's Face " ( also known informally as " The Nazi Song ").

Before the film's release, rumors stated that actor Hugh Jackman identified the character as Emma Frost in the film's trailer at Comic-Con 2008, though no such identification was made.

Before the film's production, Peckinpah had been working on a Custer project, based on the novel by Hoffman Birney The Dice of God, but later abandoned it for this film.

Before the release, Everlast announced on his official message board that he was not endorsing the compilation album.

Before the year was over, Brown, who had immediately returned to work with his band following his release, organized a pay-per-view concert following a show at Los Angeles ' Wiltern Theatre, that was well received.

Before the end of 2008, Jeepster would also release another Belle & Sebastian compilation, The BBC Sessions, collecting the tracks that the band had recorded for the BBC in 1996, which included rarities and unreleased songs, together with live recordings from Belfast.

Before the release of It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Professor Griff, in his role as Minister of Information, gave interviews to UK magazines on behalf of Public Enemy, during which he made homophobic and anti-Semitic remarks.

Before the release of the game or the demo of the game, id software released QTest on February 24, 1996.

Before the release of Moana, Flaherty made two short films in New York City with private backing, The Pottery Maker ( 1925 ) and The Twenty-Four Dollar Island ( 1927 ).

Before the release of the album, the band played four shows in May at the London Roundhouse where they played the album and its accompanying films in their entirety.

Before its release, however, it was ruthlessly edited by Paramount, which perhaps contributed to its low box-office results in the United States.

Before the release of DeCSS, there was no way for computers running a Linux-based operating system to play video DVDs.

Before the album was released, Blur released a new single, " Don't Bomb When You Are the Bomb " as a very limited white label release.

Before the release of Hang ' Em High Eastwood had already begun working on Coogan's Bluff, about an Arizona deputy sheriff tracking a wanted psychopathic criminal ( Don Stroud ) through the streets of New York City.

Before the North American rental release on May 9, Blockbuster Video wanted to purchase hundreds of thousands of extra copies for its " guaranteed title " range, whereby anyone who wanted to rent the film would be guaranteed a copy.

Before going bankrupt, Palisades Toys was to release a line of deluxe series action figures, for adults, as part of Sesame Workshop's push to expand into retro products for teens and adults.

In 2006 he began work with Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock on songs that eventually featured on the band's 2007 release, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.

Before the album's release, on 9 September 2008, Marillion achieved a world first by pre-releasing their own album via P2P networks themselves.

Before that, on 29 September, James acted to reduce the unrest by freeing Douglas and likely made his release conditional on his support at the resumption of the Perth parliament.

Before its official release date on October 5, the band played at the Austin City Limits Music Festival and KBCO's World Class Rockfest.

Their debut album " Before The Plane of Angles " is due for release in the Spring of 2012.

2005 saw the release of a new album, Before After, which had a much more contemporary dance sound compared to previous albums.

Before the release of the fifth book, 200 million copies of the first four books had already been sold and translated into 55 languages in 200 countries.

Before their release the animals are prepared in a large enclosure in order to acclimatized them to freedom.

Before its release the album had been tentatively titled " 777 ".

Before many-worlds, reality had always been viewed as a single unfolding history.

Before Lorenzo Turner's work, mainstream scholars viewed Gullah speech as substandard English, a hodgepodge of mispronounced words and corrupted grammar which uneducated black people developed in their efforts to copy the speech of their English, Irish, Scottish and French Huguenot slave owners.

Before his death, Ballantine delivers a videotape to an academic friend, but when viewed on an ordinary videotape machine the only result is radio static.

Before the 1972 election, Muskie was viewed as a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Before Paley, most businessmen viewed radio stations as stand-alone outlets or, in other words, as the broadcast equivalent of local newspapers.

Before investigation into his conduct as governor started, Rowland was viewed as a rising star in the Republican Party, and was mentioned as a future presidential or vice-presidential candidate.

Before European settlers arrived at Port Phillip, Aborigines resting after the stiff climb of Oliver's Hill, Frankston, and looking north along the bay would have viewed a long ribbon of sandy beach shaped vaguely like a boomerang.

Before the wide adoption of Pinyin, the name of the city ( often viewed as a county seat, i. e. Qufu xian ) was transcribed in English in a variety of ways, such as Ch ' ü-fou-hien, Kio-feu-hien, Kio-fou-hien,

Before being outlawed in most U. S. states, the novelty of fish pedicures was viewed as a possible revenue enhancer for struggling nail salons, which had experienced less " luxury spending " from their regular clients during the recession.

Before the Jacobite Rising of 1745 or, simply, " the ' 45 ," Lochaber axes were relegated to the Scottish constabulary, and were somewhat viewed as the police baton of the day.

Before the exile of Jean-Claude Duvalier, Carrefour was viewed as a Haitian tourist destination.

Before the eras of television and later home video, films were viewed as having little future value when their theatrical runs ended.

Before the 1970s, Harkin was viewed as a visionary conservationist and creator of Canada ’ s national park system.

Before the subdivision of the property in the 1980s, the home had a Weaver Street address and could be viewed through the open lawn from the street.