AMC Chesterfield 14 & IMAX

Chesterfield · United StatesSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room D, 26/100 — a small room carrying a premium badge — it fails the large-format premise on size, whatever the projector, 130 m² of lit picture. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 October 2026.

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Map position approximate (city centre)

~IQ 26provisional

Premium in name. Weigh it against the surcharge.

Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Digital Xenon(as of 2021)
Screen: 15.7 m × 8.8 m (138 m²)
Screen shape: 1.78:1 — 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: 2011
Operator

⚠ This venue has closed (2023). AMC Classic Chesterfield 14 (IMAX installed June 2011) closed 19 May 2023 and was demolished in March 2025.

The projector here comes from a 2021 industry listing that we haven't been able to re-confirm. IMAX has converted a lot of screens to laser since, so a 2021 label is a 2021 state rather than a current one. Treat the score as indicative.

⚠ LIEMAX — at 15.7m wide this is in the smallest tenth of IMAX screens worldwide (the median is 20 m), showing a 1.90 frame. Good projection can't buy back screen size.

Why IQ 26

Screen size7/38

130 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source

Projection11/36

IMAX Digital Xenon · recorded 2021 · one source

Full 1.43 frame8/18

1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show

Sound0/8

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 Chesterfield 14 & IMAX · 15.7×8.8 m · picture 130 m², 6% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

2 double-decker buses fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 138 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 138 m²
Picture: 130 m²
Screen used: 94%

0.5 m of this screen's height — 6% 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.

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Where this comes from

Single source

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Screen dimensions: single source
Projector: single source
Operating status: verified closed (2023)

The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.

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