Other top earners for the weekend just ended include "The Blind Side" ($15,450,000), "Invictus" ($9,085,000), "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" ($8,000,000) and "A Christmas Carol" ($6,871,000).

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Rose (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, "Dreamgirls") lends her voice as Princess Tiana – Disney's first African-American princess – in a cast that also features Jenifer Lewis (Mama Odie), Peter Bartlett (Lawrence), Oprah Winfrey (Eudora), John Goodman (Eli "Big Daddy" La Bouff), Jennifer Cody (Charlotte La Bouff), Terrence Howard (James), Bruno Campos (Prince Naveen), Keith David (Dr. Facilier), Jim Cummings (Ray) and Michael-Leon Wooley (Louis).

Disney has reset the Grimm Brothers fairy tale in New Orleans during the Jazz Age. "The Princess and the Frog" is written and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, who together delivered "Aladdin" and "The Little Mermaid" to Disney.

Newman penned a series of songs for the film inspired by the New Orleans sounds of jazz, zydeco, blues and gospel. Songs in the film include "Down In New Orleans," "Almost There," "Friends on the Other Side," "When We're Human," "Gonna Take You There," "Ma Belle Evangeline" and "Dig A Little Deeper."

Newman's new musical, Harps and Angels, will premiere in fall 2010 at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. He is known for penning the songs "I Think It's Going to Rain Today," "Sail Away," "Feels Like Home," "Real Emotional Girl" and "You've Got a Friend in Me," the latter for the animated film "Toy Story." His music has been heard on stage in The Education of Randy Newman and Randy Newman's Faust.