11 premium screens
Houston
There are 11 premium screens in Houston, across Dolby Cinema, IMAX, 4DX and ScreenX. The biggest picture is at Space Center Houston — 378 m² of lit screen, 37% more than the next room.
No room here can show the full 1.43:1 IMAX frame. Every screen in Houston crops to 1.90 or wider, so a film shot with IMAX cameras will be missing about a quarter of its picture wherever you see it.
Worth knowing before you book: Edwards Houston Marq*e 23 & IMAX never lights 31% of its screen. The fabric is bigger than the picture, which is why the ranking here is by lit area rather than by the dimensions cinemas advertise.
4 of 11 publish their dimensions; the rest are scored on an estimate and marked as such. 1 of 11 has a projector confirmed by two independent sources. One room is digital with the generation never established — we say so rather than guessing which laser it is.
Ranked
Scored on the picture each room actually lights, not the fabric it is painted on. A tilde means the projector rests on a single dated source.
- Dolby Cinema at AMC Gulf Pointe 30Dolby Cinemasize unpublishedB
- Dolby Cinema at AMC Willowbrook 24Dolby Cinemasize unpublishedB
- Space Center HoustonProjector not established26.8 × 20.1 m378 m² lit pictureC
- Edwards Houston Marq*e 23 & IMAXIMAX Commercial Laser22.9 × 17.4 m276 m² lit pictureC
- AMC Gulf Pointe 30 & IMAXIMAX Commercial Laser18.5 × 10.7 m180 m² lit pictureC
- Regal Edwards Greenway Grand PalaceIMAX Commercial Lasersize unpublishedC
- AMC Willowbrook 24 & IMAXIMAX Commercial Laser17.1 × 9.5 m154 m² lit pictureC
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rankedRegal Edwards Houston Marq'E4DXsize unpublished - not
rankedRegal Edwards Houston Marq'EScreenXsize unpublished - not
rankedRegal Greenway Grand Palace4DXsize unpublished - not
rankedRegal Greenway Grand PalaceScreenXsize unpublished
Not sure what separates these? The screen is not the picture →