AMC Alderwood Mall 16 & IMAX
Lynnwood · United StatesConfirmed ×2
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 43/100 — a modest premium screen, 194 m² of lit picture. Two independent sources agree on the projector. Data read 21 September 2026.
18733 33rd Avenue West, Lynnwood, WA, 98037 · Open in maps ↗
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Commercial Laser
- Screen
- 19.2 m × 10.7 m (205 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.79:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 371
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2010
- Operator
Why IQ 43
How big, really?
Drawn to scale · figure = 1.7 m
- 1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX · 38.8×21 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
- 2BFI IMAX · 26×20 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
- 3AMC Alderwood Mall 16 & IMAX · 19.2×10.7 m · picture 194 m², 6% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
2 double-decker buss fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 205 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 205 m²
- Picture
- 194 m²
- Screen used
- 94%
0.6 m of this screen — 6% of it — stays dark for a IMAX 1.90 showing. The projector here can't produce the full 1.43 frame, so the top and bottom of the screen are never used at all.
Worth travelling for?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
Where this comes from
Confirmed ×2We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- confirmed by 2 sources
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Projector
- confirmed by 2 sources
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- Operating status
- verified open
Showtimes
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