Universal Cinema AMC at CityWalk Hollywood IMAX
Universal City · United StatesSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room S, 84/100 — one of the best rooms we have measured, 406 m² of lit picture, and it can show the full 1.43:1 frame. The 70mm print is confirmed by IMAX's own engagement list. Data read 5 November 2026.
Seven-story IMAX at Universal CityWalk with dual 15/70 film and laser; one of five LA-area 70mm venues.
100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA, 91608 · Open in maps ↗
Destination screen. Worth travelling for.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX 15/70mm Film
- Screen
- 24.1 m × 17.7 m (427 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.36:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.43:1 — full IMAX frame
- 15/70mm film
- Yes — confirmed, ran The Odyssey in 70mm
- Sound
- IMAX 12-channel
- Seats
- 422
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2000
- Operator
- AMC
Why IQ 84
406 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source
IMAX 15/70mm Film · film and digital projectors, each on its own source
1.43:1 · on a 15/70mm print
IMAX 12-channel · as 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
- 3Universal Cinema AMC at CityWalk Hollywood IMAX · 24.1×17.7 m · picture 406 m², 5% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
8 double-decker buses fit on this screen (2 across × 4 up · 427 m² total)
What you actually see
Switch format — watch what lights up on this screen · why this matters
The full IMAX frame — the tallest picture that exists
- Screen
- 427 m²
- Picture
- 406 m²
- Screen used
- 95%
0.8 m of this screen's height — 5% of it — stays dark for an IMAX 1.43 showing.
Worth travelling for?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
Nothing materially better within 75 mi — this is your best option locally.
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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 ↗
- 15/70mm film
- confirmed by 3 sources
- · IMAX's Odyssey 70mm engagement list ↗
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Operating status
- verified open
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