New York is the second-largest market for moviegoing in the US, following Los Angeles, where cinemas remain closed.
Liam Neeson will personally greet cinemagoers who go and see his latest action thriller, The Marksman, at the AMC Lincoln Square in New York’s Upper West Side before screenings on Friday.
All of its 13 venues in New York will reopen on 5 March, with the Regal chain, which is owned by Cineworld, said to be opening an April reopening.
The film opened in a number of territories around the world in January, where it has taken $16.4m to date.