Walt Disney, Warner and E1 go head to head this weekend — but will covet different audiences with The Princess and the Frog, the post-apartheid drama Invictus and Me and Orson Welles.

Disney’s Princess, a twist on the classic story about a girl who meets a frog prince, arrives on a reported 3,300 screens, featuring the voices of John Goodman, Terrence Howard and Oprah Winfrey. Meanwhile, Hollywood heavyweights Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon star in Invictus, playing on over 2,000 screens via Warner Bros. Freeman plays Nelson Mandela in the story about his efforts to unite post-apartheid South Africa through the 1995 Rugby World Cup championship.

E1 Entertainment has the widest release among Canuck distributors with the drama Me and Orson Welles, on nine screens in cities including Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Winnipeg and Halifax. The story follows a teen’s big break when he lands a part in a Welles Broadway production.

Also opening on Friday:

• Alliance Films has the Colin Firth-starrer A Single Man, which bowed at the Toronto International Film Festival, opening at Toronto’s Cumberland and AMC Yonge & Dundas. Directed by fashion designer Tom Ford, the film is generating buzz for Firth’s performance as a heartbroken man trying to deal with the tragic loss of his lover.

• The documentary Collapse, about radical thinker Michael Ruppert and his apocalyptic vision of the future, moves to Toronto after screenings in Vancouver and Calgary. It will play at the Royal cinema via KinoSmith.

Meanwhile, Alliance Films has locked a May 14 release date for Jacob Tierney’s acclaimed The Trotsky — named one of the Top Ten films of 2009 by TIFF.