AMC Century City 15 & IMAX
Los Angeles · United StatesSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 40/100 — a modest premium screen, 149 m² of lit picture. Two independent sources agree on the projector. Data read 5 November 2026.
10250 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90067 · Open in maps ↗
Map position approximate (city centre)
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Commercial Laser
- Screen
- 16.8 m × 9.5 m (160 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.77:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 271
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2008
- Operator
Why IQ 40
149 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source
IMAX Commercial Laser · 2 independent sources
1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show
no sound specification published
How big, really?
Drawn to scale · figure = 1.7 m
- 1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX · 38.8×21.0 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
- 2BFI IMAX · 26×20.0 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
- 3AMC Century City 15 & IMAX · 16.8×9.5 m · picture 149 m², 7% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
2 double-decker buses fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 160 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 160 m²
- Picture
- 149 m²
- Screen used
- 93%
0.7 m of this screen's height — 7% of it — stays dark for an 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
Regal Edwards Ontario Palace IMAX
Ontario · about 40 mi away
You'd get 246% more screen, real 15/70mm film.
Regal Irvine Spectrum IMAX
Irvine · about 40 mi away
You'd get 246% more screen, real 15/70mm film.
Universal Cinema AMC at CityWalk Hollywood IMAX
Universal City
You'd get 167% more screen, real 15/70mm film, the full 1.43 frame.
Better screens within 75 mi
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Where this comes from
Single sourceWe treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- one source, listed twice — these copy each other
- · 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
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