4 premium screens

San Francisco

There are 4 premium screens in San Francisco, across IMAX, Dolby Cinema, 4DX and ScreenX. The biggest picture is at AMC Metreon 16 IMAX — 621 m² of lit screen.

One room — AMC Metreon 16 IMAX — 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. AMC Metreon 16 IMAX ran a 15/70mm print of The Odyssey — the only one in San Francisco.

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.

S
AMC Metreon 16 IMAXIMAX 15/70mm Film1.4329.8 × 23 m621 m² lit picture
B
Dolby Cinema at AMC Metreon 16Dolby Cinemasize unpublished
not
rankedRegal Stonestown Galleria4DXsize unpublished
not
rankedRegal Stonestown GalleriaScreenXsize unpublished

Choosing in San Francisco

Ran the 70mm print

AMC Metreon 16 IMAX ran 15/70mm film of The Odyssey. On film the frame is about a third taller than the digital showing in the same room.

How much of this is confirmed

Projector confirmed by two independent sources: 1 of 4. No source: 3.

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