This October, Lifetime will premiere its groundbreaking original movie event, Five (formerly Project Five), an anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people’s lives directed by Jennifer Aniston, Alicia Keys, Demi Moore, Independent Spirit Award winner Patty Jenkins (The Killing) and Penelope Spheeris (Wayne’s World).
From executive producers Aniston, Marta Kauffman (Friends), Paula Wagner (The Last Samurai, Mission: Impossible), Kristin Hahn (The Departed, The Switch), Kevin Chinoy (Greg the Bunny, Warren the Ape) and Francesca Silvestri (Greg the Bunny, Warren the Ape), Five features an all-star ensemble cast, including Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson (Pieces of April), Rosario Dawson (Sin City), David Eigenberg (Sex and the City), Lyndsy Fonseca (How I Met Your Mother), Ginnifer Goodwin (Big Love), Josh Holloway (Lost), Taylor Kinney (The Vampire Diaries), Jenifer Lewis (The Princess and the Frog), Jennifer Morrison (House M.D.), Kathy Najimy (WALL-E), Golden Globe Award winner Bob Newhart (Horrible Bosses), Annie Potts (Law & Order: SVU), Tracee Ellis Ross (Girlfriends), Emmy and Golden Globe winner Tony Shalhoub (Monk), Emmy nominees Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development) and Jeanne Tripplehorn (Big Love), along with Xander Berkeley (24), Alan Ruck (Spin City) and Scott Wilson (In Cold Blood).
To empower the Lifetime audience with support, resources and ways to take action in the fight against breast cancer, Lifetime created the FIVE Coalition with today’s leading national organizations including the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation, LIVESTRONG, The National Breast Cancer Coalition, The Noreen Fraser Foundation, The Prevent Cancer Foundation, Stand Up to Cancer, and Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
An exclusive public service announcement by Demi Moore will urge all to join in the fight to stop breast cancer and will premiere during the airing of FIVE.
Lifetime’s Five also shares the vision of Walgreens Way to Well Commitment, an initiative aimed at disease prevention and improving everyday health through education and early detection of today’s leading diseases – cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Working with the nation’s leading health organizations, Walgreens is bringing $100 million in health testing services, preventive health care resources and charitable programs to its stores nationwide over the next four years.
In October, Walgreens prescription bottles will have pink caps with the image of a pink ribbon and the message “Get screened for early detection.” In addition to the pink caps, Walgreens and its customers, through in-store donation programs in October of 2011 and October of 2012, will donate a minimum of $1 Million to Susan G. Komen for the Cure to support Breast Self Awareness programs, including mammograms, in support of the fight against breast cancer.
FIVE airs Monday, October 10, 2011 at 9/8c on Lifetime.