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    Prime Focus Technologies appoints Raghunath Mohanrao as its COO

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    MUMBAI, India --

    Prime Focus Technologies (PFT), the technology arm of media services powerhouse Prime Focus, has added IT industry veteran Raghunath Mohanrao (Raghu) to its executive suite as chief operating officer (COO).  Raghu is stepping in to take over duties from PFT co-founder and former COO, Ganesh Sankaran, who is taking sabbatical for 15 months to pursue an MBA, while remaining on the PFT Board of Directors.

    “I’ve wanted to go back to school for my MBA for some time now and with PFT in such a strong position I know this is the right time,” said Sankaran. “I’ve known Raghu for well over 18 years and am confident he is the right fit for PFT. I look forward to Raghu’s leadership to take PFT to the next level of its growth journey.”

    Ramki Sankaranarayanan, founder and CEO, Prime Focus Technologies, stated, “Ganesh is taking a well-deserved break from the hot pursuit of building PFT from its inception in a garage to where it is now. Raghu is an accomplished technology leader in the media and entertainment space and his background and skills offer the best fit for what PFT requires as it charters the next level of innovation, delivery excellence and growth.”

    Previously, Raghu worked as the telecom, media and entertainment industry leader at IBM, managing its globally integrated capabilities. Raghu also focused on worldwide growth strategy as vertical delivery head at Wipro Technologies, responsible for services delivery including profit and loss for telecommunications and worldwide media and entertainment businesses in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. With his experience and success in conceptualizing and implementing numerous global operations centers across the world, Raghu joins PFT with an eye toward furthering its growth within the global media and entertainment markets.

    “PFT’s breadth of technology offerings and opportunity for transforming media and entertainment companies are two of the many reasons for my interest and excitement as I take over the position of COO,” said Raghunath Mohanrao. “I look forward to bolstering the unwavering customer and people focus, delivery excellence and innovation at PFT.”

    Raghu will be joining Sankaranarayanan and the PFT executive team at the annual NAB Show, a key event for both PFT and the media and entertainment industry as a whole. At NAB, PFT will showcase updates to its CLEAR Media ERP Suite, which helps media and entertainment companies virtualize the content supply chain and achieve the digital transformation necessary to compete in an industry undergoing unprecedented change.

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    Daniel Craig Embraced Openness For Role In Director Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer”

    Tuesday, November 26, 2024

    Daniel Craig is sitting in the restaurant of the Carlyle Hotel talking about how easy it can be to close yourself off to new experiences.

    "We get older and maybe out of fear, we want to control the way we are in our lives. And I think it's sort of the enemy of art," Craig says. "You have to push against it. Whether you have success or not is irrelevant, but you have to try to push against it."

    Craig, relaxed and unshaven, has the look of someone who has freed himself of a too snug tuxedo. Part of the abiding tension of his tenure as James Bond was this evident wrestling with the constraints that came along with it. Any such strains, though, would seem now to be completely out the window.

    Since exiting that role, Craig, 56, has seemed eager to push himself in new directions. He performed "Macbeth" on Broadway. His drawling detective Benoit Blanc ("Halle Berry!") stole the show in "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery." And now, Craig gives arguably his most transformative performance as the William S. Burroughs avatar Lee in Luca Guadagnino's tender tale of love and longing in postwar Mexico City, "Queer."

    Since the movie's Venice Film Festival premiere, it's been one of the fall's most talked about performances — for its explicit sex scenes, for its vulnerability and for its extremely un-007-ness.

    "The role, they say, must have been a challenge or 'You're so brave to do this,'" Craig said in a recent interview alongside Guadagnino. "I kind of go, 'Eh, not really.' It's why I get up in the morning."

    In "Queer," which A24 releases Wednesday in theaters, Craig again plays a well-traveled, sharply dressed, cocktail-drinking man. But the similarities with his most famous role stop there. Lee is an American expat living in 1950s... Read More

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