5 premium screens
Sacramento
There are 5 premium screens in Sacramento, across IMAX, ScreenX and 4DX. The biggest picture is at Esquire IMAX Theatre — 373 m² of lit screen, 160% more than the next room.
One room — Esquire IMAX Theatre — can show the full 1.43:1 IMAX frame. Everywhere else in town crops to 1.90, which is roughly a quarter less picture on a film shot for it. Esquire IMAX Theatre ran a 15/70mm print of The Odyssey — the only one in Sacramento.
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.
- Esquire IMAX TheatreIMAX 15/70mm Film1.4323.1 × 18 m373 m² lit pictureA
- Regal Delta Shores 14 & IMAXIMAX Digital Xenon16.5 × 9.3 m143 m² lit pictureD
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rankedCinemark Century Arden XD and SCREENXScreenXsize unpublished - not
rankedRegal Natomas Marketplace4DXsize unpublished - not
rankedRegal Natomas MarketplaceScreenXsize unpublished
Choosing in Sacramento
If you are choosing tonight
It is Esquire IMAX Theatre against Regal Delta Shores 14 & IMAX. 373 m² of lit picture against 143 m², 160% more — IMAX 15/70mm Film against IMAX Digital Xenon.
Esquire IMAX Theatre also shows the full 1.43:1 frame, so it is the bigger picture and the taller one. There is no trade-off to weigh in Sacramento.
Screen you will be sold and never see
One room here advertises more screen than any film will light. Esquire IMAX Theatre leaves 10% dark — 43 m² of fabric that never carries a picture.
Ran the 70mm print
Esquire IMAX Theatre ran 15/70mm film of The Odyssey. On film the frame is about a third taller than the digital showing in the same room.
Worth leaving Sacramento for
AMC Metreon 16 IMAX is 74 mi away and beats everything in Sacramento — 248 m² more lit picture than the best room here.
How much of this is confirmed
Projector confirmed by two independent sources: 1 of 5. Single source: 1. No source: 3.
Not sure what separates these? The screen is not the picture →