Aerial MOB: An Offer We Cannot Refuse
Aerial MOB: An Offer We Cannot Refuse In late September 2014, Aerial MOB became one of the first six American film production companies selected by the FAA to receive a Certificates of Waiver or Authorization (COA) to use UASs for movies, television and commercials. Much…
LA Great Place for Drone Industry
LA Great Place for Drone Industry On Thursday night at Cross Campus in Santa Monica, I spoke about the drone ecosystem and how LA is a great place to be building a drone company. Los Angeles was the center of aerospace innovation in the 20th…
Alton Native Blazing Path with Drones
Alton Native Blazing Path with Drones in Film Production That was the day he and his partners became the first cinematography company granted Federal Aviation Administration approval to use unmanned aerial systems, also known as drones, for filmmaking and commercial productions. “Three or four years…
Warner Bros Uses Drone on The Mentalist
Warner Bros Uses Drone on The Mentalist The weekend before Warner Bros. studios planned to make television history, the weather was not cooperating. In normally sunny California, there had been days of rain. Luckily, mother nature played ball. On December 15, 2014 the production team…
Drones Coming to Hollywood
Drones Coming to Hollywood The FAA will approve Hollywood’s request to use drones for filming, government and industry sources familiar with the process have told Forbes. On Thursday afternoon the FAA will announce its decision, and explain the procedures under which production companies will operate…
Drones and The Future of Movies
Drones and The Future of Movies If you’re a filmmaker on a credit-card budget, you probably can’t afford a helicopter to take those aerial shots of cityscapes and landscapes that big-budget filmmakers use to create a sense of panoramic grandeur. But you can afford the…
Ad Week: Drones in Film Production
Ad Week – Drones in Film Ever since Twitter used drones to create buzzy six-second videos at Cannes last year, the remote-controlled devices have ditched their reputation as weird flying gizmos the military uses in favor of one as a new marketing platform. And brands…
Panavision, Drone Company Aerial MOB Form Alliance
hollywoodreporter.com announcement SEPTEMBER 04, 2015 2:03pm PT by Carolyn Giardina Panavision will recommend Aerial MOB as their preferred drone company in the U.S. Aerial MOB — a provider of drone services for feature and TV production — has reached an agreement with Panavision through which…